Watch this interview with 16 year-old Wimbledon start-up kid

Forget SOPA, it's ACTA that people in the UK need to worry about

Watch out East London - the tentacles are coming

Eric Van Der Kleij, CEO of Tech City, paints a terrifying picture of East London’s future, in which super-fast broadband cables ensnare innocent hipsters in a terrifying death grip.

It’s from a typo-strewn but well reported write up of yesterday’s Economy, Culture and Sport Committee at City Hall. Sounds boring, but isn’t. This stuff could change the face of the city over the next decade, so pay attention.

Gabriella Griffith at Londonlovesbusiness – The debate: Is Tech City working?

Facebook's frictionless sharing is akin to malware

Marshal Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb has a good post on why Facebook telling you what Guardian articles your friends are reading is dangerous and wrong, as well as being really really annoying.

Steve Jobs last words as related by his sister

— The final words of Steve Jobs, as related by his sister Mona Simpson in this lovely eulogy. Simpson, who was born after Jobs was sent away for adoption, was told as an adult that her brother was found and that he was rich and from California. She hoped he would turn out to be John Travolta.

Rider of software evangelist shows Van Halen as amateurs

Tech Job Opening Alert: Government Minister of Tweets and Nude Female Web Coders

Two extraordinary job openings today in the burgeoning field of the internet that we wanted to give our readers a heads up on, seeing as how we imagine most of you to be job-seeking web experts.

Google Needs to Stop With the Social — Now

With today’s introduction of the “+1” button on certain links and internet searches, Google is making another attempt to encroach on Facebook’s social territory. This seems to be the one aspect of the internet that Google can’t get ever right, and the one they most immediately need to stop.

Huffington Post Set to Drastically Impact Our Lives, Launch UK Edition

The #1 ranked “blog” on Technorati and full subsidiary of AOL is bringing its winning formula of unpaid contributors and content aggregation to England.

Update: Apple Pulls Anti-Gay iPhone App

Bowing to the requests of tens of thousands of petition signers, Apple has decided to remove a controversial anti-gay iPhone app from their online store.