Monopoly makers find mid-point between Mayfair and Old Kent Road

The real-world location for the 'Go' square on a Monopoly board has been revealed as The Queen's Walk on the South Bank at Jubilee Gardens.

Are apps killing the web?

Here at Legally Social , we always try to be at least one day ahead of the conventional wisdom. And this week, that’s exactly how it played out. On Monday , we discussed how the commerce model of the Internet was changing, and more specifically how “Facebook’s goal is actually to create a private Internet, with all of the functionality of the Internet but with everything you might need under a ...

Gunner Frimpong Latest Star Hit by the Curse Of Ghana

Ghana. Sheez. How unlucky can you get? After reaching the quarterfinals of the World Cup without crocked Chelsea star Michael Essien and with Sulley Muntari causing havoc in the camp, some irksome Uruguayan uses a hand to prevent the Black Stars from claiming their rightful place as Africa’s first global semifinalists. Ah, how Africa wept that fateful night at Soccer City on July 2 when Luis ...

A chat with Microsoft Principal Researcher Bill Buxton, Part I

The man who invented the multi-touch user interface—more than two decades before the iPhone—talks about tech from the last quarter century

The Web Is Dead. Who Cares?

No doubt many netizens of cyberspace were surprised to hear this week that the World Wide Web is on death's doorstep while the Internet is alive and well and ready to be the platform for an electronic Camelot.