Mike Butcher reports: "Ankur Shah was a co-founder of the Techlightenment company which was acquired by Experian, the credit reporting service. But he's now onto new and interesting things. That project now launches as Opinsy, a new platform which, broadly speaking, enables people to build communities and followings around their opinions, beliefs and ideas. Opinsy breaks cover as an invite only beta today. The launch is ironically timed and 'on trend' - we saw the launch of Menshn only last week, and Amen is the hot mobile app around strong opinions right now."

A report by The Sunday Times has claimed that The Guardian is to close its printed edition by next year has seen rumours spread across social media platforms and reports pop up at online media outlets. Despite the claims printed by The Sunday Times, most are sceptical that such a move could be implemented by next year, despite the continued losses by the company as a result of its printing costs, expected to be around GBP45 million for last year alone.

The Wikipedia co-founder has lent his support to British student Richard O'Dwyer in an online petition. Richard O'Dwyer created the TVShack.net website, which did not host any copyrighted material but linked to other sites that did. The 24-year-old was arrested over the site in 2011, but will not face any prosecution in the UK. However, the US has stated that because some American citizens used the site, he must be extradited to face criminal charges around copyright infringement, which could see him spend up to 10 years in a U.S. prison.

The first hardware, made by Sony, will offer direct access to the internet, and Google hopes it will also encourage software developers to write apps for televisions as well as for mobile phones and tablets. Google TV has struggled in America, and the interface has been redesigned since it was first unveiled. Special versions of YouTube, Twitter and some websites have now been created for the TV interface, and Google hopes more users will rent films through the new service. A company spokesman said that internet on television needed to be more of a "lean back experience" than it is …

The Guardian has given 20 of its general reporters iPhones in a bid to "take advantage" of the latest mobile photography and video technology to "supplement" the news outlet's existing video output. The trial saw Guardian reporters handed iPhones a few weeks ago, and since then around eight or nine pieces of output have resulted from this, according to national editor Dan Roberts. Speaking to Journalism.co.uk he said the Guardian has been talking about "trying to equip more of our news reporters with iPhones" for a while, and is using this trial to decide whether it is something they want …

A new magazine "of inquisitive journalism and intelligent photography" has launched for iPad. The online version of Auto de Fe went live last weekend and will be followed by a print edition later in the year. The iPad magazine is viewed in landscape and navigated by swiping horizontally through the features, and articles are read vertically. The independent title has been founded by two photojournalists and supported by independent designers, writers and photographers, executive editor of the magazine Jack Laurenson told Journalism.co.uk.

The colourful entrepreneur, who is on bail in New Zealand and wanted in the United States on charges criminal copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering, took to Twitter to unveil his new venture, Megabox. The new website will offer musicians a way to sell their music direct to fans and keep 90% of revenues. "The major record labels thought Megabox is dead," said Dotcom. "Artists. rejoice. It is coming and it will unchain you." Dotcom, born Kim Schmitz in Germany, was arrested in January in a raid on his mansion in Auckland.

The Doodle is a basic interpretation of the Turing Machine, a hypothetical computing model that Turing proposed in 1936. The machine, he suggested, would be fed with a long piece of tape inscribed with single-character instructions which it would then read and process, moving the tape back and forth according to the instructions given using an algorithm. The notion was considered groundbreaking by Turing's peers -- up until this point, a machine that could react dynamically to multiple instructions by storing data had not been imagined.

Jack Dorsey said entrepreneurs in Europe lack ambition compared to those in Silicon Valley, as his micro-blogging website announced plans to expand its advertising sales in 50 new countries by the end of the year. Dorsey, 34, who was in Cannes to receive the Media Person of the Year award at the annual Lions advertising festival, said of Europe: "There's a huge barrier to entry because there's not a large ambition to take risks. There's a fear of making mistakes in public." In contrast, he said there was a mentality on the West Coast of America that "I'm going to …

Social media marketers may have been aware of some form of preference, but a solid set of results have now been brought to the fore,dailymail.co.uk reports. Researchers from Google have indicated that men are siding with Reddit, while women are contributing to 72% of Pinterest's audience. The former certainly isn't surprising, as social news site Reddit admits freely to targeting men with their approach. The majority of content on the site is classed as 'funny', while politics and science articles are also popular.