Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker hated Apple products until he bought one, then he liked them, and bought some more. However, he still hates iTunes. I'm really with him on that one. Perhaps it's because it's where you have to pay for stuff (musics/apps), perhaps because it's slow (on a PC anyway) and the home screen…

This clip of Steve Jobs is a weird insight into when the tech mogul was young, nervy and had loads of hair. Commenters reckon it's circa 1979. Shows even the masters have to start somewhere.. [via NYmag]

Are mobile phones particularly romantic? Or are we just a bit cowardly when it comes to expressing our feelings? It seems that Brits are three times more likely to text "I love you" than to say it to their loved one's faces according to a survey by www.goodmobilephones.co.uk. The study polled 2,137 people in relationships…

An opinion piece in the New York Times suggests that online uni courses just aren't as good as the real thing. In this age of soaring tuition fees, getting your tutoring for cheap over your wifi connection seems a sensible option to be considering, saving you thousands of pounds each year. Have you tried one?…

AOL shelled out $315 million for the web start-up yesterday and it means they now control the biggest voices in online journalism - Techcrunch and Engadget which dominate tech world and now liberal online paper the Huffington Post. It makes AOL one of the biggest content providers on the web - not only has it…

Next week is Social Media Week in several cities across the world. Supposedly, it's seven days when we celebrate logging into Facebook and tweeting. And going on Linked-In and MySpace and running Tumblr blogs. All those activities that you do every day anyway. (Except for MySpace, though I did look at someone's profile yesterday). Thing…

Our first video redux from Phillip Bensaid on Vimeo. It's not like your yoghurt has now got a Facebook profile - but recipe amalgamater Foodily is using the internet to make food more social. Eating is one of those things that has been social since cavemen sat around eating wild boar in a circle, Foodily…

Looks like the web address facebook.co.uk was briefly hacked earlier today to display a spam page about loans. Screengrab above. Currently it's showing a 404 "not found" sign. So was the domain hacked? Of course, it's not like Facebook.co.uk will cause much confusion with the real Facebook (.com) which looks dramatically different. But still, you'd…

The £300,000 UK crime map launched today by the Home Office is a great step towards informing people, helping us understand crime better and hopefully helping us avoid and prevent it better too. It's not new though - we look at five other interesting crime maps where policing interacts with technology. The UK crime map…

Don't dismiss the Facebook Deals announcement today as one for just the advertisers and social media wonks. This is one for anyone who sells anything: whether it's jeans, gig tickets or coffee. If you've got a brand and it has some kind of physical location, you can do something with this. And Facebook deals can…