Interesting stuff
We all love bubble wrap - and now it's online (21 July 2008)
Popping bubble wrap is one of the small pleasures in life. Now you can do it online so you get all the fun without filling your bin.
Design your own mobile phone (14 July 2008)
Can't decide which mobile phone to get? Then why not design your own at zzzPhone. However, be careful with your money as serious concerns have been raised about what sounds like a great idea.
Performance marketing from Lastminute.com ( 2 June 2008)
Performance marketing is a new but growing trend in advertisers' bid to cut through to real customers. Treating people to unexpected performances certainly grabs their attention.
Club Penguin - the Second Life of the pre-teens (27 May 2008)
Move over Second Life. Watch out Facebook. The next generation is hooked on Club Penguin and it's not just for geeks.
Amazing kinetic engineering ( 6 May 2008)
Theo Jansen is a kinetic sculptor and he has created mechanical wind-powered beasts to walk the Dutch sands.
Creme that egg! (22 April 2008)
A creme egg isn't just for easter, and here is some excellent engineering to creme that egg
Samsung ant fight viral (19 April 2008)
Samsung's latest viral video is quite clever, but shows how brands need to think things through when using YouTube.
Set magenta free campaign ( 6 April 2008)
Deutsche Telekom's heavy handed legal letter to Engadget Mobile to stop the colour magenta back-fired. Numerous sites went magenta for the day and are calling for magenta to be set free.
The coolest thing on the web? (27 March 2008)
Is ZoomQuilt the coolest thing on the web? It is according to Google.
Be alert, when using Google Alerts! (29 January 2008)
what I hadn’t appreciated, is that on occasions you can get alerted to old news.
Are you a Moofer? (21 January 2008)
Moofers - or mobile out-of-office workers - are a growing generation who don't need fixed office space. With mobile broadband they work anywhere.
Social Network for learning languages (18 January 2008)
VoxSwap, the new social network for learning languages.
TechBlogs - Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the future (12 January 2008)
One being a motorised skateboard capable of speeds up to 50mph. Scary!
Social networking for dogs! (10 January 2008)
DoggySnaps a site to dog lovers everywhere.
BBC launch beta website ( 2 January 2008)
The BBC - one of the leading news websites in the world - has launched a beta version of the new website. A wider, clearer layout supports personalistaion of the page by users.
The best Christmas present (27 December 2007)
Paris Hilton has shown no sign of preparing to use her massive fortune for anything good - so its great to hear that almost her grandad's money will go to charity rather than her bar bill.
Celebrities who blog (11 December 2007)
There are plenty of blogs about celebrities and now a growing number of blogs by celebrities. But many of them don't seem to quite grasp the concept of blogging.
Generation Y - mobile and connected (10 December 2007)
Generation Y has grown up not knowing a world without the internet and mobile phones. As they become consumers and employees their impact on our behaviour will be enormous.
Google Maps for Mobile - My Location tool ( 7 December 2007)
Last Wednesday Google announced the latest in a very long line of new tools. Users...
Flock 1.0 - the web-browser for social media ( 3 December 2007)
Flock 1.0 is a new web-browser - based on Firefox - aimed at people who use social media. It aims to help you manage all your friends and media in one place.
Dilbert on agile programming! (28 November 2007)
A light hearted take on the agile methodology!
A novel way of presenting the news (25 November 2007)
Newsmap takes Google News headlines and presents them in an interesting format.
5 step to Hollywood success via blogging (17 November 2007)
Diablo Cody went from blogging about being an unlikely stripper to Hollywood screenwriting. Wired tells us her 5 easy steps to success.
So how old are you really? (18 July 2007)
Find out how old you would be if you lived on Saturn or Venus.
View your website as a graph (24 June 2007)
Here's a cool tool that builds an image of your sitemap.
Watch your visitors move round your site (29 May 2007)
Among a growing number of web analytics tools is Robot Replay which enables you to see visitors' mouse movements when on your site.
Star Wars re-mix (15 April 2007)
The opening to Star Wars, re-mixed
Something for the little ones to do over Easter ( 4 April 2007)
A simple on-line resource that allows you to colour an egg.
Men just can't help staring (25 March 2007)
Eye tracking research show that, while women focus on the face, men look at the face and crotch of pictures of women...and men...and animals!
TV Quiz show Blockbusters is back! (23 March 2007)
It comes complete with the theme tune, good ole Bob introducing the questions...
Support Red Nose Day (15 March 2007)
It's Red Nose Day on Friday 16th March and I won't be writing on Real Life News - I'll be talking calls from people pledging their money to charity.
Me with a red nose! (11 March 2007)
Why not donate a few pounds to comic relief!
Blogging for women ( 6 March 2007)
NLab at de Montfort University, Leicester is holding the first European event specifically about women and social media on 8th June.
How old would you be on Jupiter? (24 February 2007)
If I was born on Mercury, I'd be 160 years old. Okay, I'd also be dead. See how old you'd be on different planets in the solar system.
Our first year's traffic (19 February 2007)
Real Life News is a year old and has had over 250,000 page views.
Where in the World do all our visitors come from? (17 February 2007)
It always surprises me where our visitors come from. Take a look at the Google map.
An alternative to Flickr ( 6 February 2007)
Flickr isn't the only photo resource on the web.
Become an M&M (30 January 2007)
Create an M&M avitar of yourself
Storyville: Blog wars on BBC4 (14 January 2007)
BBC4 is showing Storyville: Blog wars on Wednesday 17th Jan, about the role of blogs on the US elections in 2004 and 2006.
Check out Slime football (23 December 2006)
The latest craze to hit my sons school.
We want free wi-fi, everywhere (22 November 2006)
Sign up to the Gadget Show's campaign for free wi-fi across the UK and let's make the internet mobile!
Whatever your native tongue, keep visiting (25 September 2006)
Do you know the native tongue of your visitors? We do!
Dominos - Worth a blog ? (24 July 2006)
Myself and David have been thinking about other channels we could launch, but I have...
A very big ad ( 4 July 2006)
Nothing to do with the World Cup, football or blogging. Martin sent me a link...