Webism Today

Released to YouTube over two months ago LMCDuff08’s Mad Avenue Blues is only now beginning to surface at some of the more ‘traditional’ media sites. The excellent song is a parody of Don McLean‘s ‘American Pie’ and is sung as “The year the media died”. In it the big traditional media owners and buyers succumb [...]

Facebook announced on their blog today that they are testing a new version of Facebook Search. By the looks of it this is an attempted rival to Twitter‘s real time social search engine Twitter Search. The new search feature is only being rolled out to a very limited number of testers for now, but from [...]

  Google appear to have added a few more search criteria to their UI. Amongst these new options are forum and review search. The UI looks a lot more like Google Blog Search where you are able to search posts from the past 24 hours, past week, past year etc. So this is a sign [...]

  Twitter appear to finally be doing some interesting stuff with their search application. Twitter search was recently integrated into the home pages of all Twitter users. This meant that rather than having to go to search.twitter.com, users could search Twitter right from their home page. The latest news is that Twitter are working on [...]

  It appears as if today is not going to be a slow news day. Already it’s been reported that The Guardian has taken its newspaper out of print and onto Twitter, dangerous hummingbirds have been spotted in rural Gloucestershire (by Dr Julius Doctor) and Warner Bros have acquired the Pirate Bay. It’s April 1st [...]

Google, who recently launched its new UK Street View service, has been forced to remove a number of its images; due to complaints that some of the pictures displayed are considered too revealing. Such images include a man walking into a sex shop, a man vomiting, whilst another showed a group of people being arrested; [...]

As predicted by The Next Web, yesterday Twitter announced that they were testing a new home page interface that incorporates the popular and extremely useful Twitter search in the top right hand corner of the screen. The new interface is being tested on a random number of accounts before they roll it out to the [...]

Google has revealed that the problem which caused every site on the internet to be labelled as unsafe was down to human error. For around 40 minutes (Google’s calculations) on Saturday afternoon (GMT), or for more than 90 minutes (various users’ calculations), every search result offered by Google came up with a warning that “This [...]

I am sure you have been there. Cruising through YouTube videos and you find a gem. One that you need to share and especially the best bit that made you laugh so hard you nearly wet yourself. Your friend pops round, you settle down in front of the screen and you need to find that [...]

According to the most recent statistics, the UK boasts 4.2 million CCTV cameras – that is one for every 14 people in the country. The small island has so many cameras that the total number of cameras in the UK counts for 20% of all the cameras in the world. With so many cameras poised [...]