Brilliant: Create Facebook friend lists the Google+ way, with Circle Hack

Whatever you think ofGoogle+so far, whether you’ve had a chance to try it yet or not, there’s no doubt that one of the best things about it is the ability to create ‘circles’ of friends via a really simple ‘drag and drop’ interface. Wouldn’t it be great if Facebook friend lists were so easy? Now they are. Circle Hackis an incredibly simple app – just log in via Facebook and all your friends are displayed in the same way as they are in Google+, except your ‘Circles’ equate to any Facebook lists you may already have....

2 min · 333 words · Jenna Lewis

Brilliant: Gym makes you pay more when you DON’T go

It’s the time of the year when everyone signs up for a yearly subscription to their favorite gym that more often than not, are only used a couple of weeks but due to laziness, busy schedules, or whatever reason are completely neglected throughout the year. Two Harvard graduates, however, are determined to change that. Gym-pactis the brain child of Yifan Zhang and Geoff Oberhofer, who thought of an effective way to motivate people to visit the gym regularly....

3 min · 477 words · Chase Jackson

Bring all your friends when you are negotiating

There is a scene inErin Brockovichwhere a bunch of lawyers come into an office to talk about a settlement. Erin Brockovich, played by Julia Roberts, asks the receptionist how many lawyers they brought. The answer is 4. Brockovich then gets 3 extra interns with papers and pencils to join her into the meeting so at least she is outnumbering the other lawyers. The rumor is that when eBay wanted to acquire Markplaats....

3 min · 451 words · Tammy Flowers

Britain’s first self-driving shuttle bus hits the streets, but scares passengers away

Last Thursday, Britain’s first autonomous shuttle was launched in Cambridge, where it drove around the university campus as part of its first testing,METROreports. Although you’d expect that its autonomous function would be in the spotlight, there’s another feature which undoubtedly steals the show: its extremely ugly appearance. Credit:Greater Cambridge Partnership Doesn’t it remind you of one of those insects with exoskeletons that are so terrifying to look at? Or maybe of a destructive and angry Transformer that could easily be named “Shuttle-tron”?...

3 min · 610 words · Christopher Baird

Britain’s Got Talent Auditions Head To YouTube

Popular UK TV show Britain’s Got Talent is heading to YouTube, allowing would-be contestants to submit an audition tape to the show using Google’s video hosting service. NMA reportsITV, working with TalkbackThames and Syco TV, will work with Google to encourage contestants to upload videos to the dedicatedBritain’s Got Talent YouTube page, before the closing date of 24 March. Fifty acts will be short-listed, which will then be shown to the public via the show’s website and YouTube account....

2 min · 289 words · Kristen Nguyen
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