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The Digital Innovation meetup (kindly hosted by Innovation Enterprise) was a causal evening of networking, questions and talks, hosted in Google's tech start-up incubator 'Campus'.

We had a great time meeting a wide range of interesting people, from designers of wearable medical devices to social media gurus.

Social media has undoubtedly brought the world closer together. You probably take it for granted how easy it is to send holiday photos and mundane messages across the world to your long-lost Auntie in Albuquerque…

Indeed, websites like Facebook and Twitter have reshaped the way we find and absorb information and news, with most of us now logging-on to find out what is actually going on in the world, not just in our friendship groups.

The internet has been awash with photographs of a leaked prototype of the iPhone 6. Although the iPhone is by no means the first larger-screened phone on the market, it highlights a trend that will provide exciting challenges for digital publishers...

Whether these pictures are genuine or not, it is no secret that Apple's iPhone screens will be having a growth spurt. About time too: the iphone is lagging behind the screen sizes of its competitors (as pointed out in Samsung's cheeky advert about screen envy- click here to watch).

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Since Twitter's launch in 2006, an influx of moral panic has been circulating in the media in regards to digital publishing and how it's affecting readers attention spans...

There is a general insistence that, because of social networking sites like Twitter and digital publishing's instantaneous nature, the public are less-inclined to read a lengthy piece of text.