The planned News Corporation app-based newspaper is to be led by Greg Clayman, the head of digital distribution at Viacom.

According to AllthingsD, Clayman will work alongside Jesse Angelo, New York Post executive editor, on the project that was first reported last month. Read More »

So, Facebook launched its location based tool last week allowing Facebook users to “check-in” to places and inform the social network and their friends of their location at any one time. With the only real discerning differences between Facebook Places and Foursquare the ability to “check in” your friends when out with a group the question is raised as to whether this service is going to be the catalyst for the growth of such services or the downfall of Foursquare, Gowalla and the like due to the scale of the Facebook user base.
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Chang Ma, vice president of marketing for LG Electronics mobile-devices unit, has told the Wall Street Journal that the South Korean company will make a better tablet computer that Apple’s iPad. Was that a good idea? Read More »

So here’s my Friday question folks, could the planned movie about Google be the most boring yet about Silicon Valley? What you didn’t know that someone had bought the rights to a book about how Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded Google and allowed us all to endlessly…um google ourselves? Read More »

Ford has published its social media guidelines with its tips on how it uses social media via its string of Twitter accounts and presence on Facebook and elsewhere. Read More »

If News International is finding it hard going to attract paying subscribers to The Times website then it strikes me that chances of success with a News of the World and Sun paywall are slim to non-existent. Someone needs to take the paywall blinkers off. Read More »

You have to love Australian politics. With the Australian election neck and neck Twitter has been playing and one ABC presenter has been forced to close his account after attacks on opposition Liberal leader and speedo wearer Tony Abbott. Read More »

The minute I meet Eileen I like her.  Eileen Gittins, CEO of Blurb Books is warm, direct and funny.  She is one of those women who you know would give you a straight answer if you asked her a direct question.  I want to know more about her story. How did she get from being ‘an artist at heart’ to one of the most successful female entrepreneurs in San Francisco generating $45m in revenue in 2009 and shipping 1.2 million books to more than 60 countries? Read More »

I ordered some pin-badges the other day.  I ordered them from a company called Awesome Merchandise, and with great ease my badges duly arrived on my desk in good time.   So my e-commerce experience was everything you’d expect from a company called Awesome Merchandise – and more.  As in my package, alongside my badges came two simple pieces of promo material: a thank you card, and a sticker. Read More »

Most of North Korea’s 23 million citizens don’t have access to the internet, but that hasn’t stopped the North Korean government from creating their own Twitter account. Read More »