The Guardian has unveiled a slew of digital activity to enhance its editorial coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games that kicks off today with the launch of its retro interactive game  ’Could you be medallist?‘.

Players can see how their personal best in the 100m, 10km, 100m freestyle swim and bicycle road race compares against the all-time Olympic greats.

The game is part of a range of live and social content that it says is in line with its open and digital-first strategies, which will complement editorial content from Guardian writers and reporters. Read More »

In the latest Nieman Report – Truth in the Age of Social Media – Craig Silverman suggest that – ‘Never has it been so easy to expose an error, check a fact, crowdsource and bring technology to bear in service of verification.’

But although this may be true, do we think that the web has helped to improve accuracy of information we access overall, or not?

Let’s take the example of Encyclopaedia Britannica vs Wikipedia. The former was written by selected, individual experts who created and provided information that was taken as gospel truth for many generations. Of course this esteemed publication was killed off by free access to information on the web. Read More »

With a lot of talk recently that Twitter is increasingly positioning itself as a media company it is expected today to announce a major Olympics partnership with NBCUniversal to cover the London 2012 games.

Working out of an office in Boulder Colorado, a team of Twitter staff will curate Olympic tweets from athletes and fans and NBC television presenters into a single page on Twitter.com. Read More »

Facebook is expected to post losses when it reports its first quarterly earnings on Thursday.

It is expected to report a loss of about $650m as it reports its first results since its rocky IPO in May.

The dive into the red comes as Facebook takes a $1.1bn charge for share payouts for staff and investors. Read More »