At last night's SMC_MCR event in Manchester, UK, Ian Forrester of the BBC's Research and Development department discussed early-stage experiments that are being conducting into bringing Perceptive Media to our TV sets.

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Google is quietly taking requests from web users who want to get paid to surf the web using the Chrome browser while sharing data with Google. The program is called Screenwise and, though we’re not aware of any official announcement, Google has a signup page at... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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The turnover in Twitter’s CEO chair may be over, but the company is still struggling to find permanence at the VP level. Last November, head of communications Sean Garrett left, resigning with a series of semi-random Tweets. We’ve learned that the company has retained search firm Russell Reynolds to find a new vice president of corporate communications, and they’re beating the bushes as we speak. The role will report to surprisingly hard-core CEO Dick Costolo who has a strict zero tolerance pol...  show all text

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Freezing seas, flooding lakes and a dramatic photo of London from space were among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month

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Exclusive: GP practices in north London have been told they must absorb 4,700 patients in the next two months after the leading private health provider The Practice Plc announced it will close...

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It's beautiful, it's addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing the 10 million mark faster than any other standalone site in history.In fact, users are spending so much time sharing their favorite images that now only Facebook and Tumblr have more social media time on site than Pinterest. Who's propelling its rise? 18-34 year old upper...

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Even as some news outlets like Associated Press hire social-media editors to try and figure out how to make use of tools like Twitter for journalistic purposes, others seem to be intent on locking these tools down and removing as much of the social aspects from them as possible. According to a report in The Guardian, broadcaster Sky News has come out with a new policy that bars reporters from posting anything other than work-related content on Twitter, prevents them from breaking news through t...  show all text

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With all the hullabaloo about Sky News’ new draconian Twitter policy, I am actually more interested in the why rather than the policy as it was reported by The Guardian. No retweets of rival journalists or “people on Twitter”. Stick to your own beat. Don’t tweet about personal or non-professional subjects on their work accounts. First off, “people on Twitter”? People on Twitter? This reminds me of the old debate we had about quoting bloggers years ago. Yes, a lot of blogs were personal musings,...  show all text

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With the rapid pace of change in digital technology, we're constantly reviewing the processes and guidance our journalists use in their jobs. As part of that, we have just distributed some refreshed breaking news guidance to our correspondents, reporters and producers. It says that, when they have some breaking news, an exclusive or any kind of urgent update on a story, they must get written copy into our newsroom system as quickly as possible, so that it can be seen and shared by everyone - bo...  show all text

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UK cable company beats forecasts to report net income of £75.9m for 2011 Virgin Media has brought to an end nearly three decades of losses for the British cable TV industry by reporting its first ever annual profit in 2011. The UK's only remaining cable company, created in 2006 after repeated rounds of consolidation among the country's loss-making regional operators, has reported full-year net income of £75.9m. This profit is still tiny compared to the group's £3.992bn annual revenue, but this ...  show all text

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Recreate an authentic post-pub experience in the comfort of your own home Tim Hayward

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Kermit the frog and Miss Piggy answer some of the questions you posed them on our blog last week, while James Bobin - director of the new Muppets movie - explains why their popularity has endured

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Oscar Pistorius hopes to become the first amputee sprinter to compete in an Olympics at London 2012 this summer. Post your questions for him here

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The story of the day is definitely about Path (a CrunchFund portfolio company). The company has been copying address book information to their servers without user knowledge. The company was apparently already aware of the issue and was taking steps to address it prior to this post coming out. The Android app has an opt-in, and a version of the app with an opt-in is awaiting approval at Apple, says CEO Dave Morin in the comments to the original post. Morin has also flat out apologized. This is a  show all text

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There’s a reason why The Onion’s recent HuffPo-tweaking satire — ‘Huffington Post’ Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine / Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine — resonated with so many reporters. “It’s because nobody wants to feel like a cog,” Salon editor-in-chief Kerry Lauerman told me. “I think it’s our fear as journalists that we’re turning into cogs of a machine.” Lauerman referenced that Onion piece in a Tuesday blog post that outlined a ...  show all text

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Vibrato doesn't get much more VIBRATO (mp3) View at audioboo.fm

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How do the heavy weights of the Internet and telecom stack up in terms of how green their technology, energy consumption and political advocacy are? On Tuesday night Greenpeace released its latest Cool IT leaderboard report, which ranks the world’s largest IT giants, and shows who’s making progress and who’s falling behind. Greenpeace gave Google the top overall score (53 out of 100), while Cisco (49 out of 100), Ericsson (48 out of 100) and Fujitsu (48 out of 100) followed shortly behind. On t...  show all text

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On Tuesday a young Sky News producer became a cause celebre, on Twitter at least. Under the hashtag #savefieldproducer he became one of the most-discussed subjects on the social networking service, after the leaking of what appeared to be a restrictive new social media policy at Sky.

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• Steve Coogan among 15 people settling phone-hacking claims • Heather Mills to give evidence to Leveson on Thursday • Paul Staines to expose privacy junctions in public interest • Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver 'backed phone hacking' • DPP 'drafting' interim policy on prosecution of journalists 4.43pm: Surphlis has now finished giving evidence. 4.41pm: Surphlis says her experience in Northern Ireland has been echoed by other groups throughout the UK. 4.38pm: Paul Dacre's second witness state...  show all text

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Death in RAF helicopter and secret prison camp in Iraq desert raises questions about legality of British and US operations

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You can follow someone on Twitter and friend them on Facebook, but real friends are people you break bread with.

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Whatever your perspective on how likely Mitt Romney was to lose the Republican nomination race prior to Tuesday evening, it should be acknowledged that he had about the worst results conceivable.

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Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news stories Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster. An email to staff on Tuesday laid out new social media guidelines for Sky News employees, including a contentious ban on retweeting rival "journalists or people on Twitter". The new guidelines also warn Sky News journalists to "stick to your own beat" and...  show all text

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