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What's App.net and why should we care about a Twitter clone?

We haven't been excited about the launch of a new social network since Google+ (you know, the one with the dancing circles), but over the past week we've heard a lot of interesting things about the subscription-based alternative to Twitter, App.net, which is currently in development... So what is it? On its home page right…

BOO: You can no longer sell skulls, guns or poisons on Etsy

So bad news this Monday morning guys, not only has the Olympics come to a close, but it turns out you can no longer sell whatever the hell you want on Etsy anymore. That's right, even if you've got some homemade poison, a spare skull laying around or a tank of lighter fluid that you…

Pinterest stops being so secretive and FINALLY opens up to the public

Social bookmarking and visual inspiration site Pinterest has finally stopped being so damn secretive after opening its doors to the public for the first time. It's always been fairly easy to get hold of a Pinterest invite, but now there's no waiting around to become a user, you just fill in your details and get…

Emoto 2012 tracks the emotions of the Olympics in real time

Throughout the past week of Olympic sports, races and emotional medal ceremonies it's been really interesting to log onto Twitter and see how your friends are reacting to the events on screen. Well now a new project called Emoto aims to capture all of our emotions from Twitter about the games and turn them into…

Cool Instagram site displays real-time London photos

A very cool and slick new web app called This Is Now collects real-time photos from Instagram and displays them on websites dedicated to big cities across the globe. We're going to warn you in advance that you'll be pretty damn mesmerised, so look away now if you don't have at least a few minutes…

Facebook: Unbaby.me replaces photos of kids with meat, cats and tattoos

No matter how many times you cull annoying people from Facebook at some point at least one or two of your friends, relatives or co-workers are bound to procreate. And what does that mean ladies and gentlemen? Well it means 3674876746 updates about little Sally or Stewie and 34598748768576 photos of them too. Sure they're…

5 of the funniest Tumblr blogs to follow: When in London, Suri's Burn Book

Ahh Tumblr, news publications have their own blogs now, businesses have turned to the platform to create quirky homepages and it's done wonders for the fashion industry, hasn't it? But you know what we think Tumblr is best for? Funny blogs and gifs with snarky captions, that's what. Over the past week we've been indulging…

Top celebrities on Pinterest [Part 2]: Obama, Paris Hilton & Yoko Ono

Some people choose to avoid the crazy ramblings of celebrities online like the plague, whereas others seem to have made it their sole purpose in life to get re-tweeted by Justin Bieber. If you fall into the second camp you'll probably already be stalking/following your favourite celebrities on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and any other place…

Pearltrees: Pinterest/Evernote hybrid comes to the iPhone

Lovely, another app that's a bit like this one with a hint of that one. Today we're checking out Pearltrees, it's existed on the web for some time, but now the Pinterest/Evernote hybrid has come to the iPhone packed full of new ways to share and gather content and lots of quirky terminology, including collecting…