Cyber Culture: What happens to the long-lost social networks?
Thursday 05 April 2012
An email slipped into millions of inboxes last week carrying the news that Google Wave, an ambitiously complex social network whose intricacies baffled most of those who tried it, was finally going to be put out of its misery on 30 April, less than three years after its birth. At about the same time a voice boomed from beyond the grave. It belonged to Friends Reunited, a pioneering social network that now provokes the same nostalgia we reserve for Opal Fruits or Saturday afternoon wrestling on ITV. The plan for the old-schoolmates hangout is to lure us back by positioning the site as a memory stash; a place where we can wallow in nostalgia, upload old photos and browse through archive shots from the Press Association. Here were two different answers to the same question: what do you do with a social network when we no longer care about it? Kill it? Or try to claw us back? It's a question that dozens of services are facing.
DVD: Friends with Benefits (15)
Friday 10 February 2012
Mila Kunis stars in this ghastly and tiresomely foul-mouthed rom-com. She plays Jamie, a New York head-hunter who is dumped for having "big eyes" by a jerk in the opening scene.
DVD: Bad Teacher (12)
Friday 04 November 2011
Cameron Diaz's flagging career is slightly recharged in this predictable but energetically crass comedy. She's convincing as a venal, lazy, drunken teacher who is aggressively trying to snag herself a rich man.
Justin Timberlake is 'frugal'
Monday 05 September 2011
The 30-year-old star admits he does not like to be careless with his cash and rarely shops, and doesn't think money can buy happiness.
How music video thrilled in ways that radio never could
Friday 05 August 2011
Justin Timberlake's bodyguard arrested
Thursday 04 August 2011
Justin Timberlake's bodyguard has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a member of the paparazzi.
Jesse Eisenberg acts to help relieve anxiety
Thursday 07 July 2011
The Oscar-nominated actor - who is currently starring in crime drama 'Holy Rollers' about a Jewish boy who becomes an ecstasy dealer - finds his career in Hollywood is helpful to him because it allows him to have a "catharsis" every day.
Justin Timberlake buys stake in MySpace
Thursday 30 June 2011
Justin Timberlake has bought a controlling stake in MySpace.
Cameron Diaz didn't mind Justin Timberlake sex scene
Monday 20 June 2011
Cameron Diaz would have found her 'Bad Teacher' sex scene awkward if it was with anyone other than Justin Timberlake.
Culture Club: Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic, Monday
Thursday 16 June 2011
Diary: Unjustified fashion faux pas
Thursday 16 June 2011
He's recorded two wonderful solo albums, acted in an Oscar-winning movie, dated some of the world's most beautiful women and even founded his own clothing line, William Rast. Yes, Justin Timberlake is certainly one of my personal style icons. But even the best of us have fashion regrets, as he confessed ahead of the release of his new film, Friends with Benefits. "God, I feel I've gone to therapy just to erase some of them," Timberlake told Playboy.
Video: Vanity Fair dumps Timberlake cover for Duke and Duchess
Wednesday 15 June 2011
Justin Timberlake has been dumped from the cover of Vanity Fair and replaced by William and Kate.








