So the big night arrived, it came, it ‘kind of’ went and Twitter was very busy.  What am I talking about?  The UK General Election.

Myself and a few other nutters people decided to stay up through the night and experience the election night as it happened, live, on Twitter.

We all had the TV on watching various channels such as BBC, ITV and SkyNews and a couple of people from my Twitter stream were lucky enough to be at our local area’s election count, but no matter where we were, we gathered on Twitter to be together as a group when the final result came in.  (Well, that’s what we thought at the time!)

Most UK tweeters were only discussing the election, the tweets were flashing up so fast that at one point, at about midnight, I couldn’t keep up with them and coming through were a mixed bag of serious political debates and complete mad randomness (yes mainly from me!) but what struck me was the immediate sense of ‘community’.… READ THE REST >>

LinkedIn is one of my personal favourite networking sites simply because it does ‘what it says on the tin’ and it keeps you ‘Linked In’ with friends, clients, customers, colleagues, managers and more.  It is a superb way to show the world who you are and what you are doing at the moment in your professional life.  It can also be used to show potential employees or business partners what you could do, and that is the key.  LinkedIn strengthens and extends your existing network of trusted contacts whilst also being a networking tool that helps you discover inside connections to global businesses who might just be looking for someone like you!… READ THE REST >>

Skype was founded in 2003. It’s based in Luxembourg, with offices in Europe, the US and Asia. Responsible for 8% of global international calling minutes, and with its users making 3.1 billion minutes of calls to landlines and mobiles in the third quarter of 2009, Skype is a leading global Internet communications company. Millions of people use Skype these days for communicating virtually however many people overlook the basics when setting up a Skype account and using it and therefore do not get the best out of it.… READ THE REST >>

Firefox is, for me, the best browser I can use for both work and personal use.  I have it installed on all my PC's, laptops and my netbook.  But on my netbook is where it really excels as it allows my netbook (which let's face it, as with most netbooks, does not have the greatest amount of memory, space or speed) into a fully functioning laptop, and it allows me to do a lot of work on the move, just by using Firefox addons.… READ THE REST >>

YouTube has teamed up with Channel 4 to offer full length TV shows hosted on through the huge video network.  New content will be added by Channel 4 and other new  partnerships such as BBC Worldwide, Turner Broadcasting, ITN, Classic Media, FremantleMedia, North One and Al Jazeera.

YouTube viewers are already able to see full length episodes of Father Ted, The IT Crowd and over 5000 videos, varying between clips and full shows on the new YouTube Show Channel.… READ THE REST >>

Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.

Facebook sued Wallace for accessing users’ accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages. The company said on its blog that in addition to the damage award, the San Jose, Calif., court referred Wallace to the U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution for criminal contempt of court — meaning he could face jail time.… READ THE REST >>

Billing Revolution, a mobile payments company, today announced its status as a Mobile Commerce Partner with PayPal, enabling PayPal merchants to immediately begin conducting mobile credit card transactions using their existing PayPal Payflow Pro gateway accounts.

“Enabling mobile transactions for all PayPal merchants represents a strategic step forward for Billing Revolution”

PayPal has approx. 45,000 merchants that process transactions via their Payflow gateway, and these merchants now have the ability to sell digital and physical goods to any consumer on a mobile phone.… READ THE REST >>

Ever presented a conference or business event and wanted to show your audience exactly what people are saying about an idea, event, brand, product or even you?  Well look no further as for those who use PowerPoint for presentations, there is a new nifty tool out and available for beta testing and download over at SAP Web 2.0 that allows you to embed real-time Twitter streams and Twitter polls into your PowerPoint presentation.  PowerPoint Twitter Tools are flashed based tools built SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius technology which allows PowerPoint presenters to embed Twitter streams directly into their presentations, so that they and their audience can view and comment on tweets in real-time, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page.… READ THE REST >>

Mplayit (formerly Mpowerplayer), being the leading provider of online mobile game discovery and merchandising, announced yesterday that it was to team up with Player X to power online games distribution with O2.

In September 2008, Player X launches it’s mobile service on the O2 network, presenting a formidable try-before-you-buy scheme and flexible billing for customers.  Mplayit has joined this team by stating that it will provide visitors to the O2 website the opportunity to try mobile phone games for free, online, using a mobile phone simulator.… READ THE REST >>

A few months ago the rumours started to flood in about Facebook Lite.  Will they?  Won’t they?  Will it be a wise decision if they do?  Will it cause problems?  Well now you can see for yourself.

In Facebook’s latest attempt at world ‘social networking’ domination and to shimmy over both FriendFeed and Twitter they have launched their Facebook Lite to the masses.

The new streamlined look is a lot easier on the eye and this was the main idea behind the new style, it will become an alternative profile page for those Facebookers who don’t want to show off their applications but just show the nitty gritty information and will not (at the moment) be a replacement for the original Facebook page style.   ‘Lite’ has only the essential tabs needed on the main page to run your account such as Profile, Events and Inbox.  This also makes each page load faster than ‘original’ Facebook.… READ THE REST >>