As with most semi-biographical films, The Social Network convinces many who watch it that they develop a comprehensive knowledge of its subject matter, in this case the origins of Facebook and its founder’s misdeeds.As well researched a movie as it was, there is more to the litigation surrounding these two then what was included in David Fincher’s chronicle. So, in order to level the playing field, this is all the dirt we know about the man who created the ...

It started as a casual flirtation.I was perfectly content with my presentation software at the time, and while Prezi was new and stylish and slick, and I gave it admiring glances in passing, I saw no reason at the time to break up with good old fashioned Microsoft Powerpoint.But a few years and several conferences down the line, the tedious, endless, same old, same old presentations became a little too much. While Powerpoint remains a useful way of organising ...

Online financial transactions giant PayPal showcased a mini-program on Wednesday that lets people exchange money by touching together a pair of Google smartphones.The software "widget" takes advantage of near-field communication (NFC) chips in Nexus S mobile phones powered by Android mobile operating systems."You have to use it to believe it, but with a simple 'buzz' you'll be able to transact with friends, family, colleagues and employees easier than ever before," PayPal senior mobile director Laura Chambers said in a blog ...

Starting a business can be daunting and trying to keep tabs of everything from sales to projects, even more so. If you happen to be an entrepreneur still writing things down on paper or using TextPad or the like, then this one's for you. The digital age is one that encourages start-ups, in the sense that they no longer need expensive stand-alone applications to move their business to the next level.Say hello to the following free web applications guaranteed to ...

Officials of South Korea's fair trade watchdog said they were intervening in the practice of influential bloggers who get rewards from companies in return for favourable reviews of products.The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) this week amended regulations so that companies and bloggers must reveal whether payments or gifts are exchanged in return for good reviews.If this is not done, the companies and bloggers could face fines. The rules will also apply to users of Twitter and Facebook."This measure is aimed ...

It’s safe to say that news channels are now in the calm-after-the-storm phase concerning the initial Google+ stab at Facebook. The social giant’s speedy defense in expressing their views that they simply regard it as a “validation” and a “recreation” of the social infrastructure that Facebook has already laid down has also been well documented.Given Facebook’s views on where future innovations will come from, the company seems to be confident that it has already won the social search war.As ...

Google+ is still new to the field, but it’s already shaping up to be Google’s most successful social media effort to date. While some have relegated Google+ to suffer the same fate as the company’s other recent failed social media efforts Buzz and Wave, the consensus among the tech industry’s top pundits, critics and journalists has been positive.We thought it would be interesting to take it a step further and see what the founders of some of the world’s top ...

Sticking Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn logos on your website, offline adverts and email signatures does not make your business any more digitally relevant than us sticking an image of Batman riding an elephant on this article, for example.Digital relevance is an aspect of digital or web marketing that many businesses are missing. There is a dramatic difference between plastering up generic social media profiles with generic low interest content and engaging actively in an effective web strategy.Today’s consumer is ...

This week I take a break from the seriousness and formalities of personal finance apps, business expense recorders and news feed readers to take a look at a music discovery and recommendation app that I have stumbled upon recently. An app that amuses, entertains and pokes fun at pretty much the entire youth demographic of today, in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way.Pocket Hipster is simply what it says, an annoying, totally non-conformist, unique, creative ‘individual’ on your phone that thinks ...

The number of Chinese websites available to users fell dramatically last year after the government tightened controls on the internet, according to a new study by a leading state-run research institute.The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) said there were 1.91 million websites operating in China at the end of 2010, 41 percent fewer than a year earlier, attributing the change to stronger regulation."Although the internet is posing some problems for new media, our regulation is becoming stronger, we have ...