• Time Out London Plans UGC-generated Issue
    Time Out London has today announced that it is set to create a user generated issue of the magazine to mark a year of the title going free. Readers will be invited to submit a review of something they have done in London recently, with the best being chosen to assemble a team of reader editors. Based on the theme 'I Love London', the issue will be available on Tuesday 24 September.
  • Suicide's Father Wants Ask.fm Closed Down
    Dave Smith said his daughter, Hannah, 14, died on Friday in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, after being "cyberbullied" on the question-and-answer website ask.fm, which allows users to send messages without their identity being disclosed. He is urging the authorities to close down the site, and those like it, after stumbling across cruel taunts from "trolls" that he said drove his daughter to take her own life.
  • Twitter Abuse Continues Against Labour MP
    The British MP Stella Creasy, who has spoken out about the death and rape threats she has received on Twitter, has been tweeted a photograph of a masked man brandishing a knife, as the campaign of attacks on women who highlight online abuse continues. The latest threat comes after a series of women in the public eye exposed the threats of violence they were subjected to on the social networking site, which has called the abuse unacceptable, clarified its rules on abusive behaviour and put extra staff in place to handle abuse reports.
  • Quartz Lets Readers Comment On Paragraphs
    Quartz, the business site launched by Atlantic Media in September, is now accepting comments for the first time. But rather than opting for below-the-line threads, the site is letting readers comment on individual paragraphs. The new feature - which Quartz calls 'annotations' - launched yesterday. Readers can click on a button alongside the paragraphs and post comments, which are post-moderated, and can then choose to share via social media or email.
  • BBC Wales To Launch Online Language Service
    The service, called Cymru Fyw, will include a live blog stream, opinion articles and features, and the latest news stories from across Wales. The site will also serve as a platform for other topical BBC products available in Welsh, such as BBC Radio Cymru and Welsh language TV programmes available on BBC iPlayer. Cymru Fyw, which translates as 'Wales Live' in English, is due to be launched in the next few months and will be piloted for an initial period of two years.
  • Button Can Turn Negative Words Positive
    Campaign group V-Hab.com has released an online button designed to replace negative words with more positive ones. The VQ-Hab de-troller, designed by V Energy, is a plugin that can be downloaded on the Chrome or Safari browser and when activated it scans website for abusive comments. The browser, which works with YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, uses a database of negative and positive words to replace negative language including swear words with positive words.
  • MailOnline Has Highest Traffic Ever In July
    The Spanish train crash, Trayvon Martin's court case, the birth of the royal baby and the death of Glee star Cory Monteith all contributed to MailOnline's biggest month ever, recording 134,544,177 unique visitors. "I am pleased that each month we grow our audiences to new highs not just in the UK, but in the United States and around the English-speaking globe," said MailOnline publisher Martin Clarke.
  • Spotify's Browse Page Helps Find Streaming Playlists
    Streaming music services like Spotify have several big challenges in 2013, including convincing musicians of their merits, and plotting a path towards profitability. Better music discovery is a third problem in search of solutions. Alive to suggestions that its service is little more than a "search box", Spotify has announced its latest new feature designed to point its users towards music they may like. It's called Browse.
  • Elle Launches Beauty Shop Online
    Elle magazine has launched an online beauty shop featuring more than 4,000 products readers can purchase for delivery within 24 hours. The site will carry products from brands such as Benefit, Cowshed, Elizabeth Arden, Bourjois, Stila, Alterna and St Tropez. A statement said the shop will increase available brands in the coming weeks.
  • Twitter Tool To Tackle Abuse Against Women
    Twitter's UK division has modified its policies to deal with abuse and harassment following incidents that highlighted threatening messages sent to users in their Twitter feeds. Microblogging network modified its policies in response to a flood of complaints, which include an online petition signed by about 125,000 people, that its tools used to report abuse had been inadequate. Twitter UK general manager Tony Wang personally apologised the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through.
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