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Pretty much the whole of central London is now available in panoramic street view, much sooner than we’d expected. In plain English, you can now see photos of any street, shop, pub, house, office or dodgy sauna in the centre of town, as though you …

It is encouraging to note that whilst some London institutions are closing their doors, others are expanding their operations here. Microsoft are to open a new research facility in the capital, dedicated to search technology. Chief Exec Steve Ballmer reckons that we have some of …

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 28. Corporate People I watched the documentary ‘The Corporation’ the other day. It’s something that a friend told me to watch, after I had drunkenly ranted …

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 24. Llamas As Team Nice and the Niceties Campaign is a year old, last week we spoke of niceties tokens, which is the mechanism that started …

Email. Who could live without it these days? Well, according to the World Internet Usage Stats more people than you might think! Only 40% of Europe is online and only a measly 4% of Africa. The latter stat is shocking when you count up all …

It’s the last week or so to donate as much of Microsoft’s cash as we can to charity via their collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the ninemillion.org campaign: You can support the Click4theCause campaign whereby each time a user conducts …

We’d like to start this week’s run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn’t for them, the rest of us wouldn’t be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star …

What is more absurd than an oil company sponsoring a wildlife photography contest? Possibly someone destroying wildlife photography in order to protest an oil company sponsoring a wildlife photography contest. Protestors from the “Camp For Climate Action” smeared a substance resembling oil onto photographs displayed …

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi’s tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of …

We’ve already had one ‘video games’ post today, so we thought we’d add a second and turn it into a bit of a theme. And what other gaming news is there at the moment that’s more important than the imminent arrival of the Xbox 360 …