Twitter has bought a social news start-up based in Vancouver, called Summify, which, as the names suggests, creates a news feed based on the top stories your friends share on various social networks and delivers them to you in a daily summary.

It’s an incredibly useful little aggregation app that delivers a daily email of social news to your mobile or PC. It has a lot of fans out there clearly including the top guys at Twitter, who plan to use the expertise of the team behind Summify to help people connect with news. Read More »

How big will Facebook commerce be this year? Views vary with some arguing that Facebook won’t master social commerce in 2012 while others expect an explosion. However, what we are certain seeing are more interesting examples of F-Commerce such as Heinz joining the social commerce rush as well as Magners cinema chain Odeon.

Add to that a £350,000 investment that Facebook commerce firm VendorShop Social has just picked up to to fuel its expansion. Read More »

The problem with trying to put a monetary value on a “like” is that it tends to inspire either ridicule or disbelief. But surely it’s worth something? It’s not a pretty picture for the future of Earth, but the indications are that ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ is coming to pass.

Evidence? The Guide itself – it is a device “rather like a largish electronic calculator (which) if it were printed in normal book form, would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it around”. Clearly a blueprint for a tablet or e-reader. Clever old Douglas Adams. Read More »

G-Slate, Aakash, Arc, Transformer, Thrive, Nook, Iconia, Xoom, Playbook, Galaxy Tab and Flyer – are these the names of forgotten blockbusters or yet-to-be-launched challengers in the automotive segment?

If these aren’t ringing a bell, I could keep rattling off names, but I’ll just stop here and say that the proliferation of tablet PCs is anything but close to softening in the near future. In fact, tablet brands are mounting wave after wave of fresh offensives to an overwhelming tempo as we speak, fighting tooth and nail to get major share in the emerging ‘micro’ notebook blitzkrieg.

Is this really a revolution in the making, or yet another passing chapter in the gizmo-arena? Let us take a look. Read More »

One of the social media success stories of 2011 was easily the photo-sharing app Instagram.   Despite only running on Apple ‘iDevices’, Instagram boss Kevin Systrom reckoned he had 16+ million users at Christmas.

Post Christmas sign-ups combined with Apple naming Instagram app of the year means that total is probably not far off 20 million by now.  And the company estimates that the Android version finally in the works will result in the numbers doubling. Read More »