The first time I heard about mobile social networks and the localization of the people in your network in real time, I found that a bit scary and quite intrusive. Of course you can use filters and decides who can see what, but still I feel quite unease about it. But as I went to Notting Hill Carnival and had friends...

Mums are truly a double edge sword: they can be the sweetest thing on the planet or the most annoying, painful nuisance. We all have stories of our mum being a bit smothering up to a point we had to deal with it. Unfortunately for today’s teenagers the social media era means that mums can stalk their offspring all...

We heard it so many times: Twitter is not useful at all! Well, here is the thing that can prove you wrong. The Twestival gathers charity events that will take place all around the world between the 10^th and 13^th of September 2009 (This week). The goal of these events is to raise as much money as possible for chariti...

It seems to be all about augmented reality on the iPhone at the moment with lots of applications soon to be released on the iPhone 3GS. But what is that all about? It was described on Mobile Marketing Watch as “a live direct or indirect view of a real-world environment whose elements are supplemented with-, or aug...

It might be hard to find what people say on the social web. Fortunately uberVU is here to make your life easier about this. I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Vladimir Oane, the CEO of uberVU, who gave me more information on how the platform works and what it can do for you.

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On August 5^th one of the co-founders of Twitter, Evan Williams, gave an interview to BBC Newsnight, explaining the nature of the platform and the future development of it. What was interesting for us Londoners is that he asserted that London was for the second year in a row the Twitter capital of the world. It sound...

If there is one thing that empassions the social media world, it is to predict what will be the next big thing, and in this case what will come after Twitter. And it seems this microcosm is quite excited by a mobile/GPS based application called Foursquare. The aim of this location based social network is to push peo...

I know this is an expression that has been around for quite some time now (2007), but I feel it is interesting to get back to it today. The expression was first used by Facebook to refer to their social network. Jeremiah Owyang described it as “the representation of our relationships. In present day context, these...