Not content with a recently re-vamped website, a Twitter account and a YouTube channel, the Royal Family have now created their own Flickr account, complete with at least 600 official photos.

The Family first sprang up on YouTube three years ago, went quiet on the social media front for a bit and then dived head-first into Twitter last year, where followers can be entertained with news and information around Royal exhibitions and ceremonies (and if you were wondering, in a move that’s very diplomatic if not a bit boring – the Royal Family isn’t following anyone). The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh even paid a visit to Google’s UK headquarters in 2008, with the former photographed jabbing hopefully at a computer keyboard with a gloved finger.

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Professional ‘funny man’ Keith Chegwin is facing the wrath of fellow comedians for tweeting one-liners that don’t appear to be all that original.

Simon Evans (you might have to Google him like I did) was the first to take umbrage after Chegwin, who has nearly 39,000 followers, tweeted: ‘My auntie Marge has been ill for so long we changed her name to “I can’t believe she’s not better.” This particular joke is said to belong to one Milton Jones (I had to Google him too). Evans responded, ‘Cheggers old chap, you are no doubt acting out of good intentions, but these jokes are written by professionals. It’s not really on to distribute them like this, without credit.’

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Oh dear. Sarah Palin has come under fire for joining the mightily swollen ranks of  those celebrities / well-knowns who manage to make mangling the English language on Twitter look as easy as eating breakfast in the morning.

Mrs Palin, who often utilises her Twitter account to interact with her 196,854 supporters, posted a message that called on Muslims to ‘refudiate’ a mosque planned as part of an Islamic cultural centre near New York’s Ground Zero. See the snapshot of the Tweet to the left there.

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Children’s favourite Walt Disney Studios has become the first brand to take advantage of Twitter’s new feed, @EarlyBird. This feature provides participants with exclusive ‘time-bound’ deals, sneak previews and events. It partners with select advertisers to re-tweet offers they have crafted only for the Twitter community. Partners determine the terms of the offer – such as the availability, amount and price.

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Search engine giant Google has announced that soon all YouTube users will need a Google account in order to upload videos to the site. While newcomers to YouTube are already required to do so, Google intends to phase-out the earlier system.

Google bosses have stressed that the move does not mean that users need to switch over to Gmail, Google’s  email service, and it won’t impact on YouTube usernames.

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A study from the team at Trend Micro has highlighted that not only are workers getting their Tweeting and Poking pleasures in their own time, but while they’re at the office, too. It would seem that over the past two years social networking in the workplace in the UK, Germany, U.S and Japan has risen from 19% to 24%. Read more »

The 2010 World Cup. Brings to mind the gathered hopes of the nation, the inevitable near-misses, the good performances and the bad, and a whole lot of shoulda, woulda, coulda.
….And Paul the psychic octopus.