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"The game layer is coming," he said, and everyone in the room believed him.At SxSW 2011, the young CEO of SCVNGR, Seth Priebatsch, expressed what was arguably the most important prediction of the illustrious tech conference: that the experience of real-life would more and more be organised around game-like structures ...

Google is going more social with its newest search feature. The new feature, the +1 button, is a recommendation tool which works in a similar fashion to Facebook's 'Like' button.The world's most popular online search service started adding the +1 buttons on Wednesday and users who opt into the +1 ...

Be quiet for a moment.You hear that faint yet frantic tapping? That, my friends, is the sound of the world's youth smsing, tweeting, Mxit-ing & Facebooking each other or, as most like to think of it, the sound of barbarians chipping away at the walls of Rome.This chipping has ...

On the eve of Google's launch of an experimental feature that allows users to recommend search results, Blekko, the curated search engine, hosted a lively dinner in San Francisco with journalists to discuss the future of search.Vivek Wadhwa, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley kicked things off by saying that ...

A video of a pair of diaper-clad babies seemingly engaged in an animated conversation in a home kitchen was a fast-spreading YouTube sensation.The two-minute snippet of the lively exchange between twin brothers barely old enough to stand has been watched more than 5-million times since it was uploaded to the ...

Recently a report was released on how the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), which comes into effect on Thursday, will impact marketing efforts in social networks as well as online advertising and retailing in South Africa. The report was compiled by Phatic Communications, in association with Goldman Judin Attorneys Inc.A few ...

On the heels of Jack Dorsey's return to Twitter, co-founder Evan Williams is scaling back his role in the microblogging site and turning his attention to a new entrepreneurial endeavour."After stepping down from CEO six months ago, my mind started to wander," Williams said in a message at his ...

Social media is touted by many as a way to get around the gatekeepers of media, the traditional old order of mass media setting the agenda for society has been tipped onto its head.Not really.A study from Yahoo! Research "Who Says What to Whom on Twitter | Yahoo! Research" found ...

At about 3pm on Tuesday the ANC Youth League’s website was hacked. The hack came just before a radio presentation from Youth League president Julius Malema on Metro FM Drive, who was coincidentally also the target of the hack.The news of the hack was broken on Twitter with users posting ...

Google has just launched a new way for small businesses in Canada to get online. This move sees the search engine monolith ensuring that small business have a web presence.Google has partnered with San Francisco-based web hosting company Yola Inc., a company specialising in do-it-yourself websites.The initiative, titled ...