Hello one and all,

‘Tis been a week of mistakenly trying to get money back from wounded soldiers and the sad news of Mr. Robson’s death.  But enough of that, here’s some news of a slight media persuasion.

Sometimes you can’t make it on your own

Especially if you’re trying to take on the company that ‘does no evil’ (except when it harms the bottom line).  Meaning Yahoo and Microsoft are buddying up to take a bigger slice of the search pie.

http://tr.im/uToo

Time spent online starting to level off

Is this because faster connection speeds are enabling us to complete tasks more efficiently, or have we reached saturation point?

http://tr.im/uTp8

The candle problem

and having the confidence to fail.  Apparently the possibility of financial reward for solving a problem can actually hinder your ability to solve said problem.  Interesting when you think about it in relation to the banking crisis, bonus culture etc etc.  and perhaps we should all embrace failure a little bit more…

http://tr.im/uTqI

Twitter story of the week!

or should I stay stories.  Philip Hughes got in trouble for tweeting news of being dropped before the official announcement (http://tr.im/uTrF) and surely sign that Twitter has reached critical mass is the news that Darren Bent has got in trouble with Tottenham for tweeting his frustration about his proposed move to Sunderland (http://tr.im/uTGR).  Will we increasingly be getting our celeb news from the celebs themselves?  Removing the need for some hack to write it up?

And finally…

if Twitter was a 100 people

http://tr.im/uTIP

ooooh Alice in Wonderland trailer

http://tr.im/uVj9

ooooh new Tron trailer

http://tr.im/uVjZ

Have a grand weekend.

Ta,

Ben