• TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Wubud - a mobile socnet on a SIM card
  The Wubud mobile social network will most likely hook into location-based services, and details are sketchy at this point - but anyone watching Walsh’s stream of Twitters can’t have failed to notice the idea has been brewing for a while.
• Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers
  “But Twitter also has its own official blacklist. It is not clear how you get on it, but perhaps if you are blocked by enough members you get inducted. Jesse Stay explains”

• Wikio’s top 300 Blog ranking
  A regularly updated raking of the top 300 blogs in the UK

• More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant.
• The Facebook Blog | More Privacy Options

• Why Social Ads Don’t Work
  “Why is it that Google monetizes so well on Search while having a hard time on social properties? Given an equal amount of views on Google vs. MySpace, shouldn’t they be able to get about the same number of click-throughs and thus ad revenue?”
• Vodafone vlog at Mobile World Congress
• TechCrunch UK » TechCrunch has a new events consultant
  TechCrunch UK & Ireland is going to be working with Thayer Driver as Events & Sponsorship Consultant

• Anger as BBC sets up a rival to Facebook… for six-year-olds
  MyCBBC, which starts in April and is costing £200,000 to develop, will be piloted among 1,000 children next month.
• BBC Worldwide signs MySpace deal
  BBC Worldwide has struck a deal with MySpace to make programmes including Doctor Who and Top Gear available to the website’s 100 million-plus global users.
• TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » 192.com published the ages of 27m people
  192.com has put up the approximate age (e.g. “25-29″) for 27 million UK residents. They say this new feature makes it easier to find old friends because, even though a person’s address may change, their date of birth always stays the same.

• Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - New York Times
  When experts have to slow down and go back to basics to bring an outsider up to speed, she says, “it forces them to look at their world differently and, as a result, they come up with new solutions to old problems.”
• The “Google generation” not so hot at Googling, after all
  A new UK report on the habits of the “Google Generation” finds that kids born since 1993 aren’t quite the Internet super-sleuths they’re sometimes made out to be. Teens “tend to use much simpler applications and fewer facilities than many imagine.”
• Buzz Doesn’t Pay. Is Joost Dying?
  Mathew Ingram wonders tonight if Joost is heading for the deadpool - if utter lack of talk about the company since launch is any indication, I’d have to agree. — Joost was one of the most hyped services a year ago well before its launch.

• Apple: iPhone Getting a Business/Corporate Plan on January 21st
  AT&T is said to be announcing iPhone compatibility to corporate and business accounts on January 21st.
• Video Killed the Broadband Buffet - GigaOM
  Time Warner Cable this week said it will move away from the “buffet” model of broadband and start experimenting with a “metered” model, many are saying due to the rise in online Hi Def movie downloading
• BT - early adopters of social media
  While many companies are trying to block employees from using social media sites such as Facebook, BT has taken the opposite attitude. They positively encourage staff to blog and to exploit social networking tools.

• Micro Persuasion: The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging
  Apparently bloggers are posting more lazily now. Kinda like saying we’re more lazy with washing our laundry since washing machines have been invented?
• Bombshell: Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org - ReadWriteWeb
  The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks.

• Twenty-eight people ask Hugh MacLeod to be their friend each day. What’s so special about him? | Technology | The Guardian
  The Guardian’s article on Brits with many friends on Facebook focues on Hugh MacLeod. Ironic tht he hates Facebook and that there are plenty of Brits with more FB friends than him.
• Web 2.0 goes charitable - vnunet.com
  Users of MyCharityPage.com will be able to create personal profiles describing their fundraising activities and promoting their favourite charities.
• Are social networks in business a white elephant or is Gartner’s report a red herring?. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
  Gartner have recently released a report, Three Potential Pitfalls of Corporate Social Networking by Brian Prentice, with the tagline “Investing in social networking solutions from enterprise vendors is no guarantee that users will embrace the technology.”
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Hi-tech tools divide social sites
  Social network sites are moving to make it much easier for software developers to write add-ons for the hugely popular web destinations.

• BBC Radio Labs blog
  NEw blog from BBC Radion on their radion social media R&D
• Flickr launches Places
  New! Finding Flickr users’ pics based on a mash-up with maps.
• What’s your TPI?
  Will McInnes looks at measuring Twitter influence
• Why I’m buying another Mac… « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
  Forget Two Jags. Meet Two Macs.
• Google To-do List
  Looks like Google’s got a task list application in the works. Reason for the delay? “We’re working to add our special Google secret sauce to the to-do lists space.”
• 7 Habits of Highly Innovative People | Think Simple. Be Decisive.
  Most of this looks like tips on how to get the most creativity out of yourself too.
• innocent drinks - a blog about our smoothies and some other stuff
  Here’s Innocent’s write-up of its Facebook page…
• The Social Media Manual: Read Before You Play
  “I decided to write this little “manual” as something to read before you jump in head first into any social site, and to keep by your side as you progress through the ranks”
• Privacy warning for young users of networking sites | The Guardian
  In a survey by the Information Commissioner’s Office almost 60% of young people aged 14-21 said they did not realise the information they placed online could be permanently linked to them.