Today, Facebook takes over the internet

Earlier this week I wrote an article about the fact that Facebook has begun to take over peoples’ lives online. You can read it via Figaro Digital here. Now far be it for me to suggest that i’m some kind of genius psychic but today has seen Facebook launch a roster of new features that extend their reach well beyond Facebook.com. You know that already on a lot of sites there’s a little Facebook icon that lets you post items into your newsfeed for your friends to view? And you know that you can ‘like’ your Facebook friends’ photos and comments? Well Facebook is supercharging that functionality to let you potentially ‘like’ almost any piece of content on the web (as long as the site chucks those little thumbs up buttons in there). When you click on the ‘like’ button you’ll also immediately be told which of your friends have also ‘liked’ it.

Quake 2 now runs in a browser thanks to HTML5

We’ve seen a lot of fuss over the past few months about HTML5 but the best justification for its existence has just arrived on our screens courtesy of Google. Using their spare time, those clever coders have found a way to get the venerable Quake 2 running directly within a browser and with online play to boot. Now of course we wouldn’t want to distract anybody from doing any work but do make sure you check it out.

The iPad: The essential 10 point review from 4D UK

Head over to Marketing Magazine’s site to see what our very own Craig Walmsley, UK MD of 4D Digital has to say about Apple’s latest device. Read__END