…well not really, but it’s amazing to see how the big blue social network has surpassed the popularity of almost all social networks, including the previously-popular local network that many countries enjoyed. An analyst has been plotting the dominance of Facebook as the social network of choice across the world. There are only 10 countries […]
We all have goals to meet in order to consider myself successful. Today we were sent a link to a video about a guy with no house, no car, with two small bags of belongings and being made to move around a lot. Our automatic response is to think that this poor fellow was down […]
We spent all of last night (well most of it) rebuilding the viral mechanics of the CyprusHasTalent.com platform so as to reopen the voting as soon as possible. Voting is now re-enabled and the competition is running live and free again. Click here to go and vote for who you think has the most talent […]
A few hours ago it was reported that there was an internal leadership change. This is welcomed news to shareholders, BlackBerry enthusiasts and bloggers alike. It’s been a horrible year for the guys at RIM with the failed PlayBook launch, copyright disputes about the name of their new OS and the outages we all remember […]
It took a photo of Glen Johnson’s late goal (which cost William Hill £570,000) has ‘broken’ Facebook for thousands of users around the world. What has happened is that the format of the picture didn’t allow the social network’s safe_image.php to resize it. Hopefully such bugs will be weeded out shortly as this new level […]
We’ve just spotted another rogue Facebook Scam promising a Free Amazing Giftcard. Advice: Always check the domain of the promotional offer as this is a free host and thus is not a true Amazon campaign. Please warn your friends that this has been reported as a rogue malware scam that posts to your account trying […]
Whilst the internet goes mad about the arrest of Megaupload founders, and the extradition of TVShack’s owner to the US for trial, one point left us wondering about the freedom of the internet. Below is the extract that started our minds thinking. Since mid-2010, US International Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been following a campaign of […]
The short story… The US Justice department has closed down the megaupload network and arrested it’s founders. Anonymous has responded by taking down several prominent organisation’s websites. The US Justice Department said that Megaupload’s two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two […]
The internet has been ablaze with opposition against the US Government’s attempt to colonize and censor the internet. On the 18th of January 2012, many sites (including our networks) will black out, in opposition to the insane Bill. We can only hope that other sites around the world will join in and oppose this invasion […]
Whilst compiling statistics for our OnThisIsland.com network, we noticed that Internet Explorer was knocked further down the podium of browsers of choice by the thousands of users from around the island. In 2010, 34.5% of visitors to OnThisIsland.com used Internet Explorer whilst only 16.7% used Chrome. Firefox sat as the favourite browser, with 36.3% the […]