Each year, over 500 companies enter the international awards and more than 3,500 websites are submitted for judging. IMA has announced that Brightlabs has been recognised in the top 10 agencies (and the sole Australian company on the list) for consistently representing the highest standards of excellence in web design and development. Read on

Rishads reaction: We are extremely happy to have made the list and I am especially proud that an Australian company was able to make an appearance, particularly given the calibre of international firms represented. I would like to thank all our wonderful staff and clients for making this possible.

Yesterday during their Places event, Facebook showed a video highlighting the thoughts of the team of developers who actually built the functionality. It's slick as hell -- very nicely done. In fact, we weren't the only ones who initially thought that it looked like an Apple video. Read on

Jennifers reaction: This seems to be just another re-packaging of a piece of technology that's widely available on the internet, just on different platforms! Is it really necessary to try and fill the gap between our offline and our online worlds with this? I know it's the "hip" thing these days to post statuses about everything and anything, but the example about the Golden Gate bridge is ridiculous. I don't want nor need to know what every other person thought of it- the reaction is fairly standard. This is just another outlet for mundane updates, despite the subtext to this video screaming "Facebook users are cool! We don't just sit on the computer all day! We actually hang out, ZOMG, lulz!".

Come on Facebook, I don't know about other users but certainly I don't want my "friends" (including actual friends, people I met once and those randoms I accepted for the hell of it) to know where I am 24/7. If I want to go and see them for coffee, I'll organise it myself- rather than virtually "bumping into" them!

Is this just another example of Facebook providing an opportunity for our privacy to be disregarded? How many people are going to 'opt-in' for this service unintentionally- possibly putting their safety on the line?

Today (well, yesterday American time) Facebook held a press conference in which Zuckerberg and Co officially revealed what many of us have been waiting for for awhile: Facebook s official push into location based social activity, Facebook Places. You can read the live blog of the event on what was revealed and what went down on Mashable, but what I actually want to talk about is what I was surprised wasn't revealed. Read on

Brads reaction: Location based services will certainly be a mainstream part of our lives in the future. Facebook obviously has the advantage if they do it right. At the moment it looks like Facebook are going to sit back and dabble for a while and see where things go.