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New York Times publishes allegations that PM's media adviser 'actively encouraged' unlawful practice while editor The prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques while editor of the News of the World and "actively encouraged" a named reporter to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages, according to allegations published by the New York Times. Coulson, who resigned as editor of the News of the World in Ja..   show all text

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TechCrunch Europe is looking for a freelance events and sponsorship organiser who will be responsible for the production of TechCrunch Europe events from conception through to completion, working closely with the Editorial team and partners across Europe. This job is also posted on CrunchBoard Events will include: •– conferences •– networking events (meetups, breakfasts etc etc) •– awards ceremonies Location: Largely London-based, but available to work on events ac..   show all text

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Google has quietly launched a new feature: search for blogs on any topic. The company announced the new type of search in a weekly round-up of search updates last week, and respected SEO blogger Bill Slawski argues that the launch may be related to a new Google patent. This has the potential to be a wildly useful service. How many of you have had professional or personal reasons to seek a list of the top blogs on a new topic? I know I, and many people I talk to, find themselves in such need fre..   show all text

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World exclusive: As he publishes memoir, ex-PM urges party not to shift to the left Tony Blair came to the view that Gordon Brown would be a disaster as prime minister and that Labour could not win the 2010 general election, he reveals in his long awaited memoirs. "It was never going to work," Blair writes of Brown's three years in No 10, arguing that the former chancellor had "zero emotional intelligence" and fatally abandoned the New Labour formula. Blair's memoir contains..   show all text

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There’s always something cool coming out of Y Combinator, but even so Greplin stands out from the crowd. It’s a personal search engine for all that data you keep locked away in the cloud. If you’ve used desktop search like spotlight, you’ll get Greplin right away. It’s like spotlight for your cloud data. It’s dead simple to use. Sign up and authorize any number of social services for Greplin to index – I signed into Facebook, Twitter and Google Voice to..   show all text

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I've been engaging with the PR community on Twitter for some time now and haven't noticed a huge amount of activity from senior level PR people. I was curious as to whether this was due to me not following enough of them - or whether it was because not many agency heads are using the social [...]

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Posted by Doug Aberdeen, Software Engineer People tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day—mail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail that’s often not important. It’s time-consuming to figure out what needs to be read and what needs a reply. Today, ..   show all text

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Email overload has finally met its match. Tomorrow, Gmail is rolling out a new feature called Priority Inbox that is going to be a Godsend for those of you who dread opening your email. In short, Google has built a system that figures out which of your messages are important, and presents them at the top of the screen so you don’t miss them. The rest of your messages are still there, but you don’t have to dig through dozens of newsletters and confirmations to find the diamonds in ro..   show all text

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Murdoch-owned "paper of record" fails to report BBC director general's comments on Sky. Mark Thompson's MacTaggart lecture impressed many with its effective rebuttal of James Murdoch's earlier address and its principled defence of public service broadcasting. A significant chunk of the speech was devoted to Sky, who the BBC director general criticised for not investing enough in original British programming. Thompson also warned that, if successful, Rupert Murdoch's bid to take full o..   show all text

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Ads tailored to online shoppers based on the products they have perused are leaving consumers with an eerie feeling.

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After being down for an entire week, popular random video chat service Chatroulette is back with a new version. The transition to version two wasn’t exactly graceful; Chatroulette was supposed to be down one day, but the extended downtime, during which the site was nothing more than a white page with a simple text message, saying the new version will launch “shortly,” was a sign that not everything had gone according to plan. So, what did the new (and, hopefully, improved) Cha..   show all text

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Adrian Goldberg explains why this time he really means it when he says he’s standing down as Stirrer editor.  And that leaves a vacancy to be filled… Okay, okay, I know we’ve been here before, but Friday will mark my final day as editor of this...

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Ali Partovi is an angel investor, startup advisor, and serial entrepreneur. He co-founded iLike, acquired by Myspace in 2009, and previously LinkExchange, acquired by Microsoft for $265mm in 1998. His portfolio has included such successes as Zappos, Tellme, Ironport, and Facebook. He was among the first to recognize the importance of the Facebook Platform, and, as this article suggests, also among the earliest to grasp the business opportunity of search. Earlier this month, Paul Graham wrote a ..   show all text

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Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process, says one of our more reliable sources. We have not been able to confirm this rumor one way or another via other sources, which isn’t surprising. A company in lock down during the IPO process is usually even more tight lipped than normal. But if true this would be one very big acquisition. Skype insiders are hoping for an out of the gate valuation of $5 billion or so, we’ve heard. Presumably Cisco would ..   show all text

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Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn’t matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If you idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich. For the most part I’ve sat on the sidelines over the years during the endless debates about how we need to do more to encourage more women to start companies. What I mean by &ldqu..   show all text

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This is a guest post by Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) who conducted a survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors and motivations. His obsession with Foursquare is unrelated to his day job leading the consumer product team at YouTube, although he did at one point hold the Mayorship of their San Bruno headquarters. Have you noticed “Off the Grid” [OTG] appearing in your Foursquare feed recently? No, it’s not the latest trendy West Hollywood club or ..   show all text

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An interesting paradox in the technology world is that there is both a shortage and a surplus of engineers in the United States. Talk to those working at any Silicon Valley company, and they will tell you how hard it is to find qualified talent. But listen to the heart-wrenching stories of unemployed engineers, and you will realize that there are tens of thousands who can’t get jobs. What gives? The harsh reality is that in the tech world, companies prefer to hire young, inexperienced, en..   show all text

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