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Mariel Norton
Mariel Norton is a self-confessed girly geek with a penchant for technology, and joins ITProPortal with just over a year's experience under her online belt. A copywriter by day and a freelance writer by night/weekend, Mariel is an avid volunteer - lending her charitable services throughout the world. Specialising in social media, apps, and video games, Mariel hopes to intertwine her love of technology with the English language to produce amusing anecdotes of ambiguous algorithms and alliteration
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Flickr Adds New 'Groups' Features
Continuing along the recent photography theme (courtesy of Facebook's Camera app), Yahoo-owned Flickr is revamping its Groups feature in the hope of boosting its social...
Home Office
Facebook Brands Become Timeline Movies
What's better than viewing your favourite Facebook brand on a static page? In movie form, obviously. This is the latest new craze adopted by the social network, after...
Software & Apps
YouTube Unveils Human Rights Channel
YouTube has partnered with US non profit organisation Witness and video playlist company Storyful to launch a human rights channel, helping to promote citizens by uploading human...
Web
Gmail Adds Welsh And Latin American Spanish To Language Support
Gmail is adding two more languages to its multilinguistic service, with Welsh and Latin American Spanish coming in the near future.
According to one of Google's product...
Web
Rickroll Meme Taken Down, Reinstated Following Copyright Complaint
Back in 1987, the world witnessed the 80s sensation of Rick Astley and his catchy hit, 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. Fast forward 20 years later, and his record was resurrected...
Web
WordPress Founder Mullenweg: 'Radical Simplification' Coming To Mobile Users
WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg, recently shared his plans for the blogging service. Announcing what the future has in store for the platform, Mullenweg told attendees at the...
