Check It

Updated: Sony owns up:

From MediaPost: Sony Wednesday released a state­ment acknow­ledging that the blog was phony. “Sony Computer Entertainment America developed alliwantforxmasisapsp.com as a humorous site tar­geting those inter­ested in getting a PSP system this holiday season,” it read. “We’ve now added a posting that provides this cla­ri­fic­a­tion to con­sumers visiting the site.” The company did not

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So Where Was That Blogging Policy?

The Attention Company has released details of a poll revealing that people are sur­pris­ingly relaxed about sharing inform­a­tion over the Internet. The company spec­u­lates that since the Second World War, privacy has become com­mon­place leading to a sense of anonymity and ali­en­a­tion in modern society. The Internet and blogging offers an oppor­tunity for people to rescue their

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Le Web 2.0, C’est le Politique

Something very odd is hap­pening in Paris. A number of prom­inent bloggers (plus the likes of Ewan, Antony, Ian and Simon :-P) have all turned up for the Le Web 3 con­fer­ence. But it seems that any talk about blogs, Web 2.0, startups and so forth has been cur­tailed by the

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Why People Pay for Piczo

There’s a report in the (London) Times about the sudden pop­ularity of social net­working site Piczo in the UK over a period of just 12 months:

…since last December this net­working website for teen­agers has grown eight­fold, increasing its number of users from 1.2m to 10.5m, with nearly 4m in Britain alone.

Four million

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That Old Chestnut

Yes, I am posting about the meaning of Web 2.0 again. I’d stop if other people would. Promise.

Anyway, Tim O’Reilly — someone I normally agree with — has posted a new ‘compact’ defin­i­tion of the term. Strangely, this is actually a longer defin­i­tion than the first one in some respects. That’s because it’s a pre­scriptive defin­i­tion rather

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Vote Billericay

One of the final­ists of the 2006 UK Weblog Awards is JonnyB’s private secret diary, a sen­sa­tion­ally funny blog I really recom­mend. As Mister B says:

I would love it — love it — if all the earnest blogging new meeja paradigm types saw the results and thought: ‘WTF? The best blog in the UK is some

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