- Downing Street available to tour on Street View Similar to its showcase of The White House three months ago, the British Prime Minister's Office at Number 10 Downing Street is now available to view on Google Street View.
- Olympic opening ceremony mentioned 9.66 million times on Twitter Now that the dust is beginning to settle on the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony and the games are well underway, Twitter UK published a great statistic from Friday night - the opening ceremony was mentioned 9.66 million times on Twitter worldwide.
- Bitly experiment shows what's garnering the most attention on the web right now Want to know what links are garnering the most attention on the web right now? With bitly's new graduated lab experiment, Realtime, now you can.
- Meet Carve Cases – Wooden iPhone cases made in Ireland Last month we covered a good-news story about an investment competition with a difference. Emerging startups were invited to pitch their ideas on Twitter using the hashtag #20000yoyos and two winners would be chosen just weeks later, each receiving €10,000 to help get their idea off the ground.
- Facebook building mobile engineering team in London Facebook is building a new engineering team in London that will work on "key areas" like mobile and platform announced Philip Su earlier today, the new lead of engineering at Facebook's London offices.
- Contract mobile customers double monthly data usage in less than a year Contract mobile customers in the UK on Three's network have doubled their monthly data usage in less than a year, according to a release from the operator.
- 100's of Irish blogs nominated for this October's Blog Awards. Is yours? Grafton Media has been named as the headline sponsor of Blog Awards Ireland 2012, an event that will celebrate the best of Irish blogging and, at the same time, assemble blogging communities together from all over the island at the Osprey Hotel in Naas this autumn.
- Separate signal from noise with Relevance, a news stream reader with a difference Like most avid consumers of news our streams are often clogged with venial content that only serves to distract us from what's most important and most relevant personally. Now, a new iOS app known as Relevance, which launches on the App Store next Wednesday, attempts to overcome this. We got early access to the app and were quite impressed.
- Microsoft's Yammer acquisition is officially complete Microsoft's acquisition of Yammer is officially complete. The closing conditions of the $1.2 billion deal were finalised earlier today.
- YouTube adds face blurring technology to encourage online activism YouTube has added face blurring technology to its post-processing toolset in a bid to encourage greater visual anonymity online, a feature that is says will be particularly beneficial to those involved in human rights activism.