DriveClub, PlayStation 4 and the future of social gaming
How Evolution Studios is planning to shake up the whole concept of online multiplayer with its incoming PS4 racer People are afraid to merge on the freeways of online racing games. While first-person...
View ArticleGetting young people fluent in digital
London–based social enterprise combines online and classroom learning to tackle youth unemployment What do you get when you mix unemployed young people with a blended learning incubator in digital...
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120,000 sign petition to introduce Twitter report abuse button
This is Gloucestershire -- More than 120,000 people have signed a petition asking Twitter to introduce a 'report abuse' function. The social networking site has come under fire after a raft of recent...
View ArticleFacebook plans to woo big budget brands with 15-second video ads
Social media site may charge as much as $2.5m a day for companies to advertise through on users' homepages Facebook's plan to launch 15-second video ads into users news feeds at a cost to advertisers...
View Article'Click farms': how some businesses manipulate social media - Channel 4...
In this excerpt from Channel 4 Dispatches, workers in Bangladesh are seen manipulating social media statistics Chris Atkins Reported by guardian.co.uk 15 hours ago.
View ArticleHow low-paid workers at 'click farms' create appearance of online popularity
Investigation finds fake Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers could be misleading consumers How much do you like courgettes? According to one Facebook page devoted to them, hundreds of people find...
View ArticleTesco forces lads' mags to make covers 'more modest'
Zoo, Nuts and Front agree to ditch highly explicit front covers as retailer responds to energetic social media campaign Highly explicit front covers of "lads' mags" may be a thing of the past, Tesco...
View ArticleGay police set up a Twitter account
This is Nottingham -- A GAY police association has launched a Twitter account. Derbyshire Gay Police Association has set up a profile on the social media website. It will post updates about the group,...
View ArticleI DO NoT THINK WE WILL EVER FORGIVE YOU
This is Leicestershire -- The grieving parents of a teenager killed by his friend in a car crash have hit out at his thoughtless actions afterwards and failure to apologise. Ben Fairlie (16) died when...
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Car crash victim's parents don't think they can forgive driver
This is Leicestershire -- The grieving parents of a teenager killed by his friend in a car crash have hit out at his thoughtless actions afterwards and failure to apologise. Ben Fairlie (16) died when...
View ArticleTwitter issues new rules to crack down on abuse
After rape and bomb threats, site to updates rules, roll out 'report abuse' button more widely and use extra staff to police tweets Twitter has issued new rules to try to clamp down on abusive...
View ArticleTwitter clamps down on abuse after rape and death threats
Site will roll out 'report abuse' button as its bosses apologise to women and say: 'People deserve to feel safe on Twitter' The social networking site Twitter has issued new rules to help it clamp down...
View ArticleTwitter boycott is my small symbolic gesture against online misogyny |...
Right now it is possible to threaten to kill and rape women without fear of the consequences. Twitter must wake up To be frank I don't know how Twitter is going to cope without me. People will just...
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DUP's Ruth Patterson to plead not guilty to Facebook message charge
RUTH Patterson is planning to plead not guilty to a charge of sending a grossly offensive message on Facebook, the social media website. Reported by Belfast Telegraph 33 seconds ago.
View ArticleFonterra admits baby formula milk contaminated with toxic bacteria
New Zealand dairy company recalls infant formula as exports to China come under threat Infant formula has been recalled in New Zealand and exports to China may be at risk after Fonterra revealed its...
View ArticleLetters, August 5: Bristol air pollution, offensive tweets and Somerton homes...
This is Somerset -- Time to make the polluter pay in city Well done to Robert Craig of All the South Party for raising the problem of air pollution. It is a serious public health challenge and it is...
View ArticleTV highlights 05/08/2013
Live Football: Preston North End v Blackpool | Celebs, Brands And Fake Tans: Channel 4 Dispatches | The Billion Dollar Wreck Hunt | Tales From The Royal Bedchamber | Long Live Britain | Rick Stein's...
View ArticleEngland's Rare Mosses and Liverworts | Book Review | @GrrlScientist
This is an engaging, informative and beautifully illustrated field guide, the first ever published to focus on England's endangered bryophytes I've always loved mosses and spent many hours studying and...
View ArticleNew Social Media Lite package, a starting point for agencies
Have you already set-up the Social Media accounts for your estate or lettings agency? And, more importantly… Are you managing them properly? Angels Media has launched a Social Media Lite service aimed...
View ArticleBBC Newsnight's Paul Mason joins Channel 4 News
Economics editor to leave corporation after more than a decade to become rival's culture and digital editor Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight's economics editor, has been appointed culture and digital editor...
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