Our longstanding Twitter followers will remember our (hugely successful) caption competition from back in the day. We’ve been meaning to start up a new competition to allow the witty, intelligent people who follow our blog, Twitter and Facebook accounts to show off said wit and intelligence, but haven’t quite got round to doing so. We [...]

Anyone who has attempted to search for an app without knowing it’s name will know it can be tricky to find exactly what you’re looking for. That’s where Quixey comes in. A shiny new start-up company, based in California and providing a functional search engine for apps,  Quixey aims to address the common failings in adopting [...]

The untimely death of Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple who died last week at the age of 56 has left people throughout the world saddened, but hopefully inspired by the story of his career. To use a quote that has been circling around the internet in the last week: ‘Bill Gates put a PC [...]

It’s been a very busy day here at Revolver (serious important work aside) – we’ve been taking part in a Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning / Bake Off at our lovely neighbours bar in Lansdowne Crecent – The Lansdowne Bar and Kitchen. We could tell you that we heard about the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning through [...]

BMW’s latest viral campaign has been causing some serious confusion in China. The German company thought it would be fun to create some mysterious “crop circle” patterns in the Gobi Desert in western China, upload them to the web, and then kick back to see what the reaction would be. Posted to Chinese social media [...]

While we were reading about ‘Buchanan Quarter’, a new retail development at the top of Glasgow’s Buchanan Street where retailers such as Forever21, Gap and Paperchase are opening flagship stores we got to thinking about impressive flagship stores across the world and how they are becoming almost tourist attrations in themselves. The idea of a [...]

A new wave of apps have hit iPhone and Android that are aimed at helping blind and visually impaired people. Knowing what food is inside a packet or details about the post which has just arrived on your doormat are everyday things that most people take for granted. Blind people have traditionally sought this kind [...]

It’s been nearly two weeks since thousands of Londoners were affected by some of the worst rioting the UK has seen for decades. For three nights riots continued in Tottenham, Tottenham Hale, and Wood Green. In the following nights, copycat riots erupted not just in other areas of London, but in Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, [...]

Whilst on the hunt for a “Friday Fun” blog post for everyone’s perusal…I came across this advert for Cycle Safety UK starring British Olympic medallist James Cracknell. It’s definitely one of the most thought provoking adverts of its kind that we’ve have seen in some time. On the 20th July 2010 James suffered a near [...]

Over the last while we’ve noticed the beginnings of a buzz surrounding Storify, a social media curation tool aimed at both professional journalists and those who are simply interested in social media and current news. The tool moved into the public beta testing phase on the 25th of April this year. Some have gone as [...]