THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Amanda Ferry

Directed by David Finch, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield. This is a story about the founders of the social networking website Facebook.

The roles are cast exceedingly well, and Eisenberg's (Oscar anyone?) portrayal of Zuzkerburg is brilliant, if perhaps not entirely fair. He is flawed, but no doubt part genius and it is difficult not to find him endearing. It would be easy enough to dislike him, he is at times an a-hole, who betrays his very few friends and manipulates his way to the top, but we are talking about a 24 YEAR OLD BILLIONAIRE. Personally I love his arrogance and his business card title "I'm CEO - Bitch" appeals to my sense of humour especially since the title on my business card is "Wonder Woman".

At times the needs of film outweigh the real story, however this does not distract from this shockingly good movie that packs a rapid pace. The beauty of this movie is that it will appeal to all types.

The mother of all inventions - we have Facebook because Zuckerman got dumped. I love that. An inspiring film for all small business owners.

GOOGLE BOOST, TAPPING IN TO SMALL BUSINESS DOLLARS

Karl Morris

ADVERTISE YOUR LOCAL BUSINESS WITH GOOGLE BOOST

Working with small businesses Google's advertising product ‘Adwords' can be just that little bit too difficult to get them involved.  Most small businesses (particularly in regional zones) don't have big enough budgets to pay a third party to do their Adwords adequately for them and they don't have the time or the inclination to do this themselves so Google is missing an enormous revenue opportunity here. That is until now!!

Google's new ‘Boost' product could be just the tonic small businesses have been looking for. For all intents and purposes it looks easy enough to use and can give you a marked advantage over your local competitors. It is currently only available to select businesses (United States only) via invitation in San Francisco, Houston and Chicago. However the guys at Google tend to roll these things out very quickly once they get the green light from such beta trials. I know I'm looking forward to this one.

A SOCIAL MEDIA PARODY

An hilarious parody on the impact of social media on journalism.