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.

“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”

A regularly updated raking of the top 300 blogs in the UK

“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?”

TechCrunch UK & Ireland is going to be working with Thayer Driver as Events & Sponsorship Consultant

MyCBBC, which starts in April and is costing £200,000 to develop, will be piloted among 1,000 children next month.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.

AT&T is said to be announcing iPhone compatibility to corporate and business accounts on January 21st.

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

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.

Apparently bloggers are posting more lazily now. Kinda like saying we’re more lazy with washing our laundry since washing machines have been invented?

The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks.

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.

Users of MyCharityPage.com will be able to create personal profiles describing their fundraising activities and promoting their favourite charities.

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.”

Social network sites are moving to make it much easier for software developers to write add-ons for the hugely popular web destinations.

NEw blog from BBC Radion on their radion social media R&D

New! Finding Flickr users’ pics based on a mash-up with maps.

Will McInnes looks at measuring Twitter influence

Forget Two Jags. Meet Two Macs.

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.”

Most of this looks like tips on how to get the most creativity out of yourself too.

Here’s Innocent’s write-up of its Facebook page…

“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”

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.