These are my web picks for July 2nd through August 4th:

YouTube – iPhone4 vs HTC Evo – A brilliantly funny conversation of a typical iPhone customer with a mobile salesman. “I don’t care” what the HTC does “I want an iPhone” even if its a brick!
Google Me social networking rumour is “very real” – Reckons rival Facebook’s ex CTO | TechEye – Google to start a facebook rival, it makes a lot of sense, but will it work? Google could have a second mover advantage and take heed of …

I’ve often admired “HDR Photos” and this bank holiday weekend have had time to learn how it’s done and have a go myself!  HDR stands for High Dynamic Range Imagery.  It gives a greater dynamic range of luminance’s between light and dark which allows a more accurate representation of intensity levels found in real scenes.
To do this I used the AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing) on my camera to take 3 photos at different levels of exposure in rapid succession.  I hand held the camera but should have probably used a …

Boo hoo is a gripping, insider’s account of the rise and fall of this most controversial of internet startups – a global, online retailer of sports and designer clothes.  ‘Such a dazzling version of the boo phenomenon that as readers turn the pages they will be rooting for the company to survive even though they know the story ends in disaster.’ The Sunday Times
Boo Hoo is the story of Boo.com a online designer clothing store founded in 1998 by Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin.  …

Just a quick post as I found this video hilarious!  This weekend is the final testing session before Bahrain opens the 2010 Formula One season on 14th March.  In Spain as the cars are testing and Ferrari practice their pit stops, one McLaren employee will do anything to get a look under the back wing.
He seems to find Ferrari’s reaction funny, They don’t!

Public outbursts against companies on Twitter
These last few weeks it has seemed like each has had a different social media story, centred around the consumer fighting back.  A prime example of this is the recent story (from econsultancy) of Paperchase selling a design which was allegedly plagiarised from an independent artist.  (Note – Since then Paperchase have stated they bought the design in good faith from an independent supplier).  The artist initially complained to Paperchase direct but to no avail, unable to fight it through the courts she used Twitter …