A few web trends to watch out for in 2008

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:12:15 GMT

What to keep your eye on if you want to be an early adopter

BT Fon will push UK WiFi access out of city centres

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:10:39 GMT

Want to share your WiFi? Become a BT Fonero and the world is yours

The web is the wild west and it's living on the edge

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:06:21 GMT

It's summer stat time. A couple of recent studies have likened the web to the wild wild west and warned that if action is not taken soon to boost capacity, the bandwidth hungry peer to peer services and huge growth in traffic will cause a grid ...

The Day After Tomorrow? When the Web dies

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:17:18 GMT

You've probably entertained the thought, along with WebTwitcher, that one day the whole web will crash. No doubt you've wondered how it would happen and what the world's reaction would be.

Take a look at

Vodafone slashes mobile internet charges

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:49:48 GMT

Just when you thought you were heading for bankruptcy following the launch of YouTube's mobile service,

Of the Facebook-Twitter love-in and ginger cats

Wed, 30 May 2007 07:28:40 GMT

Clocking on t'interweb this morning WebTwitcher was surprised to see a new FaceBook link in her Twitter account.

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 ...

Bank holiday blues a chance to upgrade your homepage

Mon, 28 May 2007 09:51:55 GMT

Ah, the great British Bank Holiday. Time to get your macs out (the plastic covering kind, not the computing variety) and head down to the beach for sand covered picnics, soggy cupcakes and a few gusts of the north sea's finest. Either that or ...

UK digital divide narrows: latest Ofcom report out

Thu, 24 May 2007 10:01:01 GMT

The digital divide between UK nations is narrowing, according to Ofcom's lastest report out today. Some of the key points catching WebTwitcher's eye in the report include:

The proportion of UK households able ...

Start planning now for your second digital life

Wed, 09 May 2007 09:31:28 GMT

If recent stats from Gartner are anything to go by (thanks for the heads up

I cant get no satisfaction, from the mobile web

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:44:51 GMT

Interesting stats out from the Online Publishers Association today. Only 25% of consumers that used the mobile internet were satisfied with the experience, with main complaint being ...

New internet cafes banned from opening in China

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:59:05 GMT

Interesting story in today's Guardian about China banning the opening of any new internet cafes, in a move to curb online addiction and juvenile ...

Live black rhino birth an instant online hit

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:29:15 GMT

Looking for an instant hit with the web world? Look no further than filming animals giving birth. Following the success of the pigcam last year, WebTwitcher hears that

BBC Radio 5 Live Pods and Blogs blog, phew

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:40:47 GMT

It's a bit of a mouthful, but certainly worth the elocution lessons. BBC Radio 5 Live's Pods & Blogs blog is an excellent source of information from the UK ...

MoneySavingExpert, get insider info on your MIX

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:42:32 GMT

If you're not one of the thousands of internet users over the past few days who have taken advantage of Hamley's online retail ...

YOU are the Time Magazine Person of the Year

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:57:59 GMT

Congratulations, dear reader! You are officially Time magazine's

Le Web 3 in a nutshell, whats it all about

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:31:32 GMT

I guess you want to know what Le Web 3 looked like? Check out the myriad of photos on Flickr for a taster of what a tech conference looks like. You may be surprised - ...

WebTwitcher is back from Le Web 3 in Paris

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:54:35 GMT

Dear reader, you'll be pleased to hear that WebTwitcher's back, alive and well from Le Web 3 in

Numa Numa back for part 2, with New Numa

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:13:48 GMT

One of last year's web phenomenons was Gary Brolsma's Numa Numa dance, which had web users across the globe hooked. After a year of obscurity, Gary's back with New Numa, which has currently ...

Faith Brown most searched for person online

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:43:05 GMT

Catapulting from relative online obscurity to an overnight search engine hit, Faith Brown, the third celeb to be voted off I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here...has become the ...

Got a blog or RSS feed, get the Excite MIX button

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:58:50 GMT

Get your content seen and read by Excite UK users! If you've got a blog or website with an RSS feed, make sure you put the Excite MIX button on your site. It allows Excite users to add your ...

Adding RSS feeds to your Excite MIX via Firefox 2

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:54:03 GMT

If you're using Firefox 2 you can now add RSS feeds to your Excite MIX page while you're browsing the web. It's really simple:

STEP 1: Enable Excite ...

The First Post, an alternative news site

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:11:58 GMT

WebTwitcher is currently browsing through The First Post, which has a couple of good RSS feeds you can add to your MIX. ...

Whats this MIX page you keep going on about?

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:32:56 GMT

WebTwitcher has been writing about Excite MIX now since way back in the good old days of June. However we're still getting questions like, "hey, WebTwitcher, what's this MIX thing you're ...

Where to buy tartan paint, holes and metal sparks

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:55:12 GMT

It's come to WebTwitcher's notice (via Radio 1 this morning) that it's possible to buy tartan paint online. And holes. And time.

After a quick scout around the web, I can reveal that yes, it is possible to ...

Never mind the poor play, Arsenal gets RSS

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:43:36 GMT

Even though the Gunners had all of 24 shots on goal last night and failed to score, they are winners on the web in WebTwitcher's book (that was quite a mouthful.)

Victoria Beckham to launch new fashion website

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:12:31 GMT

Victoria Beckham is launching a brand new fashion website on the 30th October to coincide with her book launch for That Extra Half An Inch. The ...

Phishing is rife, but spammers get scammed

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:49:49 GMT

News out this week brings internet scammers firmly back under the spotlight (not that the subject's ever far from the web world's lips). Phishing scams are on the increase on sites like MySpace, and the scammers are using increasingly creative ...

Google billion dollar spending spree for YouTube

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:25:53 GMT

So, the analysts may yet be proved wrong, as Google coughs up $1.65 billion for YouTube. The popular video-sharing site is ...

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 ...

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