Martin Bryant

Based in Manchester, UK. UK Editor at The Next Web, Digital Content Editor at Marketing Manchester & one of the founders of #smc_mcr
RT @fmanjoo: .@ProfJeffJarvis and @jeffjarvis are talking in the comments of Jarvis’s post calling ProfJarvis a troll http://buzzmachine.com/2014...
Google buys city guides app Jetpac, support to end on September 15 http://thenextweb.com/insider...
Lots of free publicity for Vine on the news in the UK today. And for accounts that offer pirate Premier League goal highlights.
Mid-August in tech blog land: https://t.co/oG2T8krI6I
RT @abracarioca: by me @thenextweb How Rocket Internet’s Dafiti is helping to shape the future of e-commerce in Latin America http://thenextweb.com/la...
RT @jaredbkeller: It’s gonna be a bad day for guys named Darren Wilson on Facebook
Re: Humin: A super-smart way to manage contacts on your iPhone, and it launches today - http://thenextweb.com/apps...
"Gradual rollout starting with the US." - Martin Bryant
RT @JulietteGarside: Read this by @ruskin147 on where teenagers get their news...like sharing links to articles during gaming chats http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
Interesting section on @BBCr4today about Premier League highlights piracy using Vine.
I love this - UFOs as a tool of manipulation > http://www.theguardian.com/film...
TNW's @strngwys is on TWiT's Tech News 2Night any minute now: http://live.twit.tv/
Why the UK’s new local TV stations are doomed to fail http://thenextweb.com/media... by @AnthonyRose
The world's first on-demand community garden: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3034045... Interesting stuff from @mnwork. (via @marsh80)
RT @beijingdou: You'll never guess which word has been added to the Oxford Dictionaries. (j/k, it's "clickbait") http://thenextweb.com/insider...
There's an implied sarcasm when someone 'likes' your really tedious Swarm check-ins at tram stops.
I bet most of the sites that source lots of their stories from Reddit will ignore this anyway > http://thenextweb.com/insider...
This project adds ambient sounds to Google Street View http://thenextweb.com/gadgets...
RT @AntDeRosa: Today in ridiculous PR pitches: "Robin Williams’ tragic death leaves consumers at high risk of identity theft."
I'd only be interested in EA again if they released 'James Pond 4: Cod of Duty' (or maybe 'Cod of War')
No, email isn't dying. It's just that it's August, which means the old classics get wheeled out. See also 'bloggers vs journalists'
RT @AstonishingSod: HILARIOUS: @Pentadact nails formula for every Murder She Wrote episode. Actual laughing out loud. (thanks @cmcgovern) http://www.pentadact.com/2014-08...
Uber says "nyerrr", Lyft says "nyer nyerrr" > http://thenextweb.com/insider...
Vine for music videos: Mindie’s iOS app gets more ways to be creative as it finds its niche http://thenextweb.com/creativ...
Ah, the irony of SXSW sending postcards by airmail to promote an environmental conference.
Yo now actually has some features > http://thenextweb.com/apps...
The war Uber faces: how it’s battling GrabTaxi and Easy Taxi in Southeast Asia http://thenextweb.com/asia... by @kaylenehong
In which @strngwys explores some of the Product Hunt list pages you should know about > http://thenextweb.com/socialm...
Coincidentally, the episode of Family Guy where Peter turns everyone into Robin Williams was on BBC Three just now.
Robin Williams :(
Holvi is bringing its online banking service for ‘makers and doers’ to 19 new European countries http://thenextweb.com/eu...
(...and they're going to fix it so my name's spelled correctly)