Here are some festive logos for today from web 2.0 leading brands Google and Technorati:

Visit mashable’s collection of festive adaptations of logos here to view more logo adaptations.
Interesting to see what social media leading brands did:
Bebo put creepy video clips on the home page but didn’t touch their logo.
Myspace relied on it’s advertisers to provide […]

Every week there are prominent stories in the media relating to internet safety.
I was horrified to read about the ‘Craigslist Murder’; a young woman went to a babysitting interview and never returned in the USA.
Users need to be aware and cautious. Don’t reveal too much about yourself on social networking sites. Don’t give […]

It was folklore. Revenue from online ‘would surpass’ off line. And now it is very real. Google’s advertising revenue was larger in Q3 2007 than ITV’s. People paid for more sponsored links than 30 second commericals on prime time TV.
Read times online article that broke the news here.

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The newly revamped MySpace is very boxy - they seem to have gone even more blue and focusing on friend elements - all similar to facebook.com surely? Read a review for details of the actual changes here

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For the past two months, the press has been full of rumours about who’ll buy a stake in Facebook, with Google and Microsoft taking the lead.
Anti Microsoft Facebook user groups proliferated.
Today the announcement has made the purchase official; “Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values […]

Jaiku, the finnish founded social networking site - that let’s you stay in touch with your friends on line or by mobile - today joined Google. No specific plans announced, just enhancing the google offering. No sums disclosed either. Read about it here: http://www.jaiku.com/ .
This week Google also made news when it […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 jointly to Albert Fert Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/THALES, Université Paris-Sud, France, and Peter Grünberg Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, “for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”.
This year’s physics Nobel Prize is awarded for the technology independently discovered in 1988 that is […]

Not much seems to be written on or acknowledged about the phenomenon of spam comments on blogs. It is relentless and can become an administrative nightmare if not dealt with - ie deleted - regularly!
Typically we get three types:
The upfront offering:
Porn
Pharmaceuticals
Insurances
Cars
Pay dayloans
Watches
The cover up offering
a short comment saying ‘nice page’ or ‘nice colours’ or […]

I’ve just read the Accessibility section of e-Consultancy’s newly released ‘Web Design Best Practice Guide’. It is huge and insightful. Obviously I’ll read more of the report but just wanted to quickly share what seems such sensible advice that alarmingly is not widely carried out in practice.
Although we don’t need to answer the […]

It’s official, Nielsen/Netratings report that Facebook has overtaken Myspace as the highest traffic UK social media site with 6.5m UNIQUE users in September (2007).
Of course there are many ways to measure success, and unique users is just one - although a very significant one. The number of UK regisrations could be another, as could […]