Hitwise’s November newsletter reveals that the UK’s browsers make more visits to social networks (e.g. the likes of Facebook, Bebo and MySpace) than web-based email services (including; Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail).
It’s the 18 - 34 year olds that are using the social networks and changing the traffic.
This must be from all the […]

There is much online buzz on the pressure to accept friend requests from those Myspace, Bebo, Facebook junkies out there.
How often do people decline the friend offer?
It appears there is pressure for people to have 100s of online friends. This is perhaps from the origins of these services - which were originally targetting […]

Once again I’m going to point you in the direction for a very useful and up to date summary of what is available online in the social media video arena. Please visit mashable for the update here.

mashable, Video

I’ve just read a lenghty and interesting blog post full of useful and friendly links in the US and UK for charity donations that is a great reference point. Please follow the link to read the article here: http://www.creditcardlowdown.com/2007/11/50_online_tools_to_research_select_and_donate_to_charities.html

charity, online donations

We have often blogged on internet safety and ease of internet fraud to ask our readers to be wary. Please visit this site for up to date and useful advice; http://www.getsafeonline.org/. They have some sensible guidelines for how to behave on social networking sites. Read it here.

internet fraud, internet safety, social […]

This Sunday is Remembrance Sunday and co-incidentally this year it falls on the actual day; 11th of November. Some of the larger UK media brands have picked up the habit of adapting their logos to suit the occasion, as we shared some of the Halloween logos, here are a couple of the Remembrance logos. […]

Last week saw the annoucment that there are 4 million active bloggers in the UK and more than half of them are female.
I was on the train reading the news in someone else’s paper so that when I searched on line for a source to refer to in this blog entry, I came […]

The British are now sending in excess of ONE BILLION texts per week. This is 25% more than this time last year and the same as a whole years worth in 1999!
There are so many tools and applications now available for SMS. I can SMS from skype on my computer and recipients reply […]