Facebook’s founder has revealed that he and his colleagues have worked overtime to simplify the privacy settings on the world’s most famous networking site. Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the changes have partly come about because so many of Facebook’s 400 million members were unhappy about alterations to the privacy settings introduced earlier this year. Some of these disgruntled networkers had threatened to close their… Read more…

It seems barely seven days since I posted the last weeks news round-up and here we are again! The Social Media scene over the last seven days has been dominated by the unveiling of new services at the annual Google I/O conference. Arguably the most dramatic launch is that of Google TV. Read on… Google TV gets a mixed reception News of the forthcoming Google… Read more…

As It’s PacMan’s 30th Birthday Google have decided to create one of their custom logos to celebrate. However this time its a bit different! If you go to Google’s Homepage (google.co.uk) and us the classic view (doesn’t work in iGoogle). Then the logo becomes the PacMan game and the ‘I feel Lucky’ button becomes ‘insert coin’! Basically it means you can play PacMan on Google’s… Read more…

This blog has been overlooking Wikipedia of late and it has taken news of a scandal to remind us that now is the time to rectify this. The scandal involves allegations made by Fox News that the site is hosting indecent content which can be accessed in schools as Wikipedia bypasses adult content filters. Such reports are strenuously denied by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. If… Read more…

Not all of us can have our dream job – the roads wouldn’t get swept, the bins would never be collected and McDonalds would be self-service if that was the case. However Nick Leroy writing on Search Engine Journal believes that he does have the ideal job: he’s an SEO (aka a search engine optimiser). One of the aspects of the profession which appeals to… Read more…