Robert Scoble get his first look at Motorola’s Xoom tablet at CES and talks with Sascha Pallenberg, tablet and mobile expert, about other things at CES.

The 10.1-inch HD tablet is the first device to be launched on Google’s new Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system designed from the ground up for tablets. Read More »

Is this an album you would buy? Josh Groban, the grammy award winning  pop to classical singer/actor, singing Kanye West Tweets on the on Jimmy Kimmel show. It is genius.

It’s like a great viral campaign for a product that doesn’t yet exist…but which I am betting will probably exist in some form or other due to the huge success of this YouTube video with 1.5 million views racked up so far. Read More »

After a year that saw some serious milestones tip in social media, such as Facebook reaching the 500 million member mark, you might be wondering what’s in store for 2011 trends in this lively medium.

Maz Nadjm

I met up with Maz Nadjm, Ogilvy Group UK’s now Head of Social Media, who formerly headed Sky’s online social media strategy,  to pick his brains about what he thinks is in store for the new year in social media. Read More »

If the story from last year is true that Groupon turned down Google’s buyout offer, which could have been worth as much as a whopping $6bn then it clearly thinks it can do much better on its own.

Its growth has been rocket fuelled and 2011 looks set to be a massive year for the deals website as rivals are (currently) tasting its dusty wake. This infographic tells you the story so far. Good read. Read More »

Silicon Alley Insider is reporting today that ads on LinkedIn do not perform well at all for advertisers with cost per click as high as $27.

If like me any many others you received a $100 voucher to advertise on LinkedIn, which oddly requires an activation fee. That is itself odd and is really something of a disincentive to use it (like that Facebook voucher I used that made me put my credit card details in which then donated money to Mark Zuckerberg). Read More »

Were you tweeting at midnight? I mean desperately trying on some overloaded network? If not you or me then a lot of other people according to Twitter which says just four seconds after midnight in Japan on January 1st, 2011, Twitterers set an all-time record in the number of Tweets sent per second (TPS).

At that moment, the world sent a whopping 6,939 TPS as the world wished friends and others a Happy New Year or “Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu”. Read More »

Does one have to win? It’s a good question. I love my books. I like piles of them in my flat. I may not read them again, but it’s nice to have them.

The Amazon Kindle is also great and growing on me — and the launch of its Kindle ebook lending service will surely boost that. I was chatting to parental friends surprised that some of them were very keen on getting one as well. That seems to show it has real cross generation appeal and so powerful growth that could really damage the book market. Read More »