TweetShareI’ve written quite a bit on this blog about online privacy. When it comes to advertising, last year there was a lot of media attention given to behavioural targeting – where advertisers reach you based on your online behaviour. Advertising firm Phorm was at the centre of that furor, and they exited the UK late last [...]

TweetShareust when the pundits were indicating that UK Internet access had pretty much hit saturation, new research says that it has grown by 5% in the last year. The UKOM data indicates that there are nearly 2 million more people online in the UK this year. And whilst youngsters were the early adopters, much of [...]

TweetShareYou may have noticed a new item in the main ‘account’ menu in Facebook. It looks like this: This is Facebook’s attempt to launch its own virtual currency. To start with Facebook credits are targeted at virtual goods such as games, but Facebook hope that it will eventually be used to buy anything online. Good [...]

TweetShareThese are the words of that, ahem, forward looking music artist, formerly known as a squiggle, Prince. Apparently, it thinks that the Internet is a poor way to distribute music. “The Internet’s completely over,” he said in an interview for the Mirror. “I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or [...]