A-level Facebook protest widens
Facebook protest groups against A-level exams taken this week have spread – with complaints about a biology paper from another exam board.
(tags: facebook web2.0 education a-level)

Rupert Murdoch's Daughter Says Facebook, Twitter, iPhone Are TV's Last Hope
Facebook, Twitter, and the iPhone are TV's only hope, according to Elisabeth Murdoch, CEO of Shine Limited, a British television production and distribution company.
(tags: tv socialmedia iphone twitter facebook murdoch)

Council Twitter users face rebuke
Councillors in Cornwall could face being reported to the authority's standards committee for using social networking sites.
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If you’re in the UK and were planning on staying in tomorrow evening to watch another enthralling episode of Fern & Phil’s All Star Mr & Mrs…. may I politely interject and point out that here is another option…
This Saturday sees the start of a four-part series on BBC2 called The Virtual Revolution, presented by Dr  (yes, the ink’s still drying on her brand new Social Psychology PhD) Aleks Krotoski.  Twenty years on from the invention of the Internet Web Aleks explores how it is reshaping almost every aspect of …

If you are an English-speaking signed-in user of google.com, you’re likely to see a few changes additions to your search results over the next few days: Google’s becoming more social.
Late last year Google released the Social Search experiment to make search more personal with relevant web content from your friends and online contacts. From Wednesday, Social Search went into beta and is moving out of labs phase.
Maureen Heymans, Technical Lead for Social Search, and Terran Melconian, Technical Lead for Social Image Search describe Social Search as such on the official …

A campaign has been launched to reduce the billions of press release emails being sent each year by the PR Industry to journalists, bloggers and publishers for whom they are irrelevant. The analysis is based on surveys carried out between 23rd November 2009 and 16th December 2009 by RealWire.
Key Findings:

1.7 billion irrelevant press release emails estimated to be received in total each year by UK and US Journalists alone
78% of press release emails are received by Recipients to whom they are irrelevant
55% of Recipients have taken action to block a …

Ever used Google Street View? Google Earth? Of course you have… Now spare a thought for the two guys responsible for snapping all the images. Not an easy job:

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Keeping the memory of Auschwitz alive in a digital world
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are playing a part in reaching out to young people on Holocaust Memorial Day – but do they really have an impact?
(tags: Auschwitz holocaust memorial socialmedia twitter facebook)

Daughter and dad reunited after 50 years thanks to Facebook
Clutching the only photos they have of each other, a dad and daughter are reunited after nearly 50 years apart thanks to Facebook.
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Victims' families call for e-Asbos
Relatives of victims of violent crime have called for action against killers who …

Interaction Designer Dana Gordon has come up with a concept for a garment that bridges between our life in the real physical world and our web 2.0 increasing social activity.
The hoodie can recognise other hoodies from same or related social network. In case a member of the same online community is present in the same physical space (around 10 metres), the hoodie activates a subtle vibration, announcing this presence to the wearer in a discreet manner.
Two hoodies are wirelessly connected via radio, themselves hooked to small vibration motor inserted into …

4 Myths About Social Media and Business
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Labour winning Twitter war
Labour campaigners have the edge over the Conservatives when it comes to followers on Twitter, a report has found.
(tags: politics twitter labour government mps)

EastEnders web spinoff E20 gets 2 million views in a month | Media | guardian.co.uk
One of the UK's most high-profile web TV series to date, E20 has had 2.1 million views on the EastEnders website and the BBC iPlayer, according to figures published today.
(tags: bbc tv internet newmedia guardian media eastenders e20 soap online)

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My nominated ‘Hero of the Week’ is 7 year-old Charlie Simpson who decided to get on his bike and raise much needed money for Unicef’s earthquake relief in Haiti. In order to do this he decided to do a sponsored bicycle ride around his local park – South Park in Fulham.
“My name is Charlie Simpson, I want to do a Sponsored Bike Ride for Haiti because there was a big earthquake and loads of people have lost their lives.  I want to make some money to buy food, water …

From the bad boys who brought you Prison Thriller…
Looking for something awesome?
This. Is. It.

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