Excite UK gets stylish new facelift (nips and tucks all round)

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:15:26 GMT

Spanking new look, sparkling new content

London bar targets the chic geek web set

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:17:54 GMT

Promises Star Trek meets Star Wars with a waitress, holographic Koi carp and touch sensitive light emitting bar. Nice.

Meet the BlogFire Bloggers: Doug's got pop star talent

Tue, 29 May 2007 07:24:46 GMT

Doug Robertson has been obsessively buying music from an early age and got to the stage where he had more CDs than space. A fact which makes him happy, but is not so popular with the people investigating the strangely localised case of subsidence ...

Meet the BlogFire Bloggers: Lisa uncovers reality TV

Wed, 16 May 2007 09:19:26 GMT

BlogFire is now live on Excite UK so we thought we'd introduce the bloggers behind our pick from the best of the UK's entertainment, gadget and football blogs this week.

First up, Lisa McGarry on

Jump start 2007 with a web 2.0 fitness overhaul

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:27:05 GMT

Happy new year dear reader! If you've been suffering from WebTwitcher cold turkey, you can breathe a sigh of relief as we're back and ready to entertain you with ideas, gossip, inspiration and silliness from the web. And it looks like 2007's ...

Pulling a tablecloth from under a dinner service

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:59:38 GMT

...a little light refreshment and a useful skill to learn for entertaining your folks over Christmas dinner. Check out Video Jug for a ...

Of beards and beard growth on the web

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:48:43 GMT

A slightly odd topic for a Thursday afternoon WebTwitcher, you may well be thinking.

It may be an odd Thursday topic, but it's certainly come to my attention that the bearded community is extremely well ...

Who do you look like, do the face recognition test

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:34:02 GMT

A pointless, but nevertheless hilarious experiment WebTwitcher has stumbled upon today is the face recognition scanning software on MyHeritage.com. Upload ...

Celeb spotting on Defamed, from LA to your MIX

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:13:37 GMT

Scathing stories from LA straight to your MIX personalised homepage courtesy of Defamer, the blog that pertains to be the gossip rag ...

Empire magazine sneaks in a tastey little RSS feed

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:18:52 GMT

For film lovers, this is a good one. Empire magazine has an excellent RSS feed you can put on your MIX for the very latest in film ...

New Bond Casino Royale gets a Mansized 5 stars

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:27:52 GMT

Sounds like Bond fans will definitely not be disappointed with the new Bond film Casino Royale. Our friends over at Mansized have seen it and given it a

Latest gossip on new Im a Celebrity series

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:06:56 GMT

I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here...should be renamed I'm not Famous Any More, Help Me Get Back on the Telly...WebTwitcher also wants to know what Cherie Booth's (AKA Mrs Tony Blair) sister Lauren is doing on it?!

Of Russell Brand, his sock, Lord Byron and Radio 2

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:54:02 GMT

He's a self confessed womaniser who enhances his nether regions with a rolled up sock (don't they all?). Sacked from

A few clips to get you in the Halloween mood

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:42:47 GMT

I guess you're not in the mood for much work this afternoon, your mind otherwise occupied with things including how to fix the plastic wart to your head so it doesn't slip off during the night. If that's the case and you're staring into space ...

X Factor plans Abba theme, ratings soar

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:34:04 GMT

Seems we can't get enough of X Factor. This weekend's ratings topped 9.5 million viewers while BBC1’s rival Strictly Come ...

See first four minutes of new Borat film

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:15:21 GMT

...on YouTube of course. As unloved as he is by the Kazakhstan government,

Footage from Londons 2000 strong flash mob

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:18:34 GMT

Liverpool Street station in London turned into an impromptu discotheque the

YouTube gold, take heed from the Spice Test

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:13:38 GMT

If you're one of the (no doubt few) people who's stared longingly at the spice rack, wondering with childlike curiosity what it would be like to eat mouthfuls of cinnamon, you'll be pleased to know a young man from

Norfolk village scandals exposed on blog

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:54:37 GMT

If you want to find out what life is like in a Norfolk village, a visit to JonnyB's Private Secret Diary is in order. The blog's been on the go since before the interweb was ...

Game girls in the UK ready for online action

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:54:28 GMT

A third of all gamers in the UK are now women, according to an article on the BBC today. There is even a group dedicated to getting more girls involved in the gaming ...

Looks fishy to me, angling world does RSS

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:32:25 GMT

You may be forgiven for thinking that the web is no place for a serious angler. You would be wrong, oh so wrong. Anything to do with nets and the fishing community is hooked, line and sinkered. Fish feeds are even springing up with rapid ...

YouTube doomed, copyright catastrophe ahead

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:05:42 GMT

If you thought the second dot com bubble was no more than a house price inflation style soft landing, think again. Recent comments from industry analysts have signalled the demise of the popular video sharing site

Bingo is back and Prince William proves it

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:15:30 GMT

An exclusive in today's Sun newspaper reveals that the delectable (...blush...)

Keep Pete Doherty out of the press, please

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:14:18 GMT

Until now, WebTwitcher has refrained from covering the topic de jour, that of the rumoured wedding between

Watch the cockroach crawl up weathermans leg

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:48:30 GMT

This is why YouTube was invented, for poking mirth at our cousins across the big pond, of course. Take this weatherman, who many bloggers are ...

Get free Madonna music videos on YouTube

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:13:02 GMT

Yes, you read the title right...that was free Madonna music videos available on YouTube. Why? Warner Music has just signed a deal ...

Hot girls, bad jokes, football and weekend fun

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:25:47 GMT

It's Friday afternoon, and what better way to spend your final office hours this week than surfing the web for indecent images on PornoTube whilst trying not to get sacked (for the easily offended - sorry to bring this one up, but as you can see ...

Britney Spears new website will scare off final fan

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:12:32 GMT

It's not yet finished, but take a sneak peak at Britney Spears' new website while still in construction. WebTwitcher thinks we'll be in for some 'sexy' (or should that be scarey) feline ...

Deconstructing the use of f**k by Generation X

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:09:59 GMT

What the f**k?! It has become apparent over the last decade that the use of the F-word has increased, both in it's regularity and in the diverse subject matter it describes. WebTwitcher was scandalised to see the recent

WebTwitcher backs Get Hoff to Number One

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:23:01 GMT

As regular readers will know, WebTwitcher is a particular fan of The Hoff, so it is with great excitement I read about the campaign to Get Hoff to Number 1. The

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