April ← 2012 ← #Interhacktives

Your website, now illegal: how to comply with the EU Cookie Law 4

Apr

2012

A new EU law prohibiting websites from placing cookies without user permission is set to become active in just over a month. Not only will this essentially make statistics derived from cookie-based tracking essentially worthless, it will also mean that websites using Google Analytics for stats gathering will be violating the law once it comes ...

How See Tickets outraged 100,000 BBC Radio 1 listeners

Apr

2012

On the weekend of June 23, nearly a hundred thousand people will descend upon the Hackney Marshes for BBC Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend music festival. Big names such as Jay-Z, Rihanna, Florence + The Machine, Jessie J, Deadmau5 and David Guetta have been booked for the free, two-day show, with the British music-loving population clamouring ...

Facebook buys Instagram for $1 Billion

Apr

2012

Facebook has forked out a huge sum of money to buy photo editing and sharing application Instagram. The social network, with over 800 million members worldwide, spent $1 Billion on the company popular with iPhone and now Android users. In an announcement on the company blog, Instagram said: When Mike and I started Instagram nearly ...

Is Social Media the answer to solving crimes?

Apr

2012

This morning the Boston Police Force accredited social media for their increase in crime solving. The Boston Police Department has seen a rise in crime solving tips thanks to social media and the department’s large Twitter following. The Boston Police Force has more than 39,200 followers on Twitter. Last year they set up a Twitter ...