Gov.uk named winner of Design of the Year 2013

The Design of the Year 2013 awards were announced on Tuesday and for the first time ever a website won the prestigious title of “design of the year”.

Disney breaking copyright?

I’ve just read a post by Katie Woodger published on her Tumblr blog about an hour ago and it appears that Disney are using a drawing of hers without her permission.

Looking behind the headlines – the success of Summly

National news headlines yesterday were full of Nick D’Aloisio and the acquisition of his iPhone app, Summly, by Yahoo in a multi-million pound deal.

Line breaks in Twitter posts

Not exactly the most exciting Social Media news ever, but yesterday Twitter announced that you can see line breaks in tweets on the web/from your desktop rather than only in it’s mobile off

Tablets overtake smartphones as the device of choice

Last week Adobe Digital Index announced that global websites are now receiving more traffic from tablets than from smartphones.

Google+ cover photos just got (a lot) bigger

Well I picked the wrong day (yesterday) to decide to finally sit down and sort out the Talking Web Google+ page and try and tie up the string of old Google services / places pages my company

New home page for Yahoo.com

The interweb is alive with discussion over the new home page for Yahoo.com.

My Local School launches in Wales

The Welsh Government have launched a clear and easy to use site for parents to view key information about how schools are performing.

Facebook like becomes share

Like or share - confusion!

Firefox OS Smartphone

Firefox give a first glimpse at their smartphone offering.

Visit Google’s Web Lab at London’s Science Museum

A hands on experience of what the web can do.

Friendship pages on Facebook cause a stir

People find the new pages creepy and invasive.