• Not content to watch the Tories woo the electorate with promises of 100Mbps broadband, the BBC says Gordon Brown is stepping into the fray to offer up the delivery of super-fast connections by 2020. The difference between the two deals? Labour suggests it would be based on user need, not market power or profitability. Good news for those rural voters left in the lurch by the Tory plans, perhaps. It's not clear, though, how this jibes with the controversial digital economy bill - which drew more criticism on Friday over claims that it was being rushed through parliament.
• Skype's founders have had an up and down few months - winning their battle with eBay, but losing out when their video site Joost shut down. Now, however, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are trying to bounce back with a new $165m investment fund for disruptive European startups, according to the FT. The money will run through Atomico Ventures, the duo's investment vehicle.
• There's been plenty of talk about the social games industry, which is currently by San Francisco's Zynga and their immense Farmville, but few commentaries go beyond the level of "wow" or "yuck". So it's refreshing to read something like this piece by Soren Johnson, who worked on Civilization, Spore and other games. I'm not going to give you much more to go on - just go and read it
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