Brit nominations revealed with Ed Sheeran leading the way
Brit nominations revealed with Ed Sheeran leading the way
Yesterday saw nominations for the Brit awards announced, with singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran leading the way with four nominations. Sheeran has been nominated for best male, breakthrough act, best single for ‘The A Team’, and best album for his debut record, which is called +. Jessie J is up for three awards, with organisers also announcing that Adele will perform live at the ceremony. The performance will be her first since recovering from throat surgery, and she has also been nominated in three categories. The best album category will see Sheeran and Adele compete with Coldplay for Mylo Xyloto, Florence and the Machine for Ceremonials and PJ Harvey’s Mercury Prize-winning Let England Shake.
Google tells Twitter ‘We don’t index the @ symbol’
Google searches are increasingly recognising Google+ pages as a part of their results, giving an unfair advantage over those brands not on the social network. It means that, according to Twitter, Goggle aren’t providing the most relevant social results by promoting Google+ pages, although Google say they would promote Twitter pages more if they had better permission to do so. Google has also confirmed that they have never indexed the ‘@’ symbol.
Facebook launches ‘Listen With Friends’ service
It has been revealed that Facebook have launched their new ‘Listen With Friends’ service. Facebook users will now be able to listen to music at the same time as their friends are, with the ability to discuss the tracks using Facebook Chat. It has been reported that up to 50 people will be able to listen and talk about the tracks at the same time. Whenever a Facebook user is listening to a track a musical note will appear alongside their name to notify their friends, who will then be able to click the ‘Listen with’ button to get a slice of the action. While it all sounds good, the service will only work if both parties have access to the same online music libraries, such as Spotify and Rdio.
Liam Neeson returns for Taken 2
There aren’t many films that excite us more than ‘Taken’, so you can imagine our joy at hearing the launch of a sequel which will again star Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace. The co-stars have reunited for the sequel to the 2008 thriller which saw Neeson travel across Europe to find his daughter, who was kidnapped on a trip to Paris to be sold into prostitution. The new plot reportedly takes place in Istanbul, seeing retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (Neeson) and his wife taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Music from Maz Totterdell
New music for the day comes from Maz Totterdell performing Counting My Fingers during her session at Maida Vale Studios for BBC Introducing.
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