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They gathered in a sweltering Tower Hamlets school hall last week like participants at a craft fair.

In reality the people behind makeshift desks were some of the top thinkers in the greatest and most forward-thinking companies of the technological era.

The Wharf is now on Facebook.

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MOVIE
The Social Network (12A)
Cineworld, West India Quay

IN A NUTSHELL
Aaron Sorkin writes the first draft of Facebook history and manages to make a compelling film from a bunch of unlikeable know-it-alls.

Hundreds of steaming motorists spent one of the hottest days of the year trapped in their cars as the Blackwall Tunnel closures led to gridlock throughout London and beyond.

Although TfL had attempted to ease the pressure encountered during the last tunnel shutdown - by using the Rotherhithe crossing as a one-way relief route - the plan was hampered by a number of breakdowns.

Fed up with Facebook? Tired of Twitter? Want something more local for your social life?

Well, the answer could be at hand with a new networking site called Canary Wharf Social & Leisure being launched by enterprising Wharfer Rebecca Smiley.

They may be constantly plugged in to video conferences and Facebook, but the average businessperson still prefers to venture out of the cubicle when times get tough.

While the credit crunch was flashing its blood-stained teeth at the start of the year, companies crammed into the Radisson Edwardian in New Providence Wharf for a networking event for the Docklands Business Club.

Social networking has revolutionised the way we keep in touch with our friends and it is now changing the way businesses work.

PR consultant Ross Furlong is adapting the way his company operates to embrace the growth of social networking sites like Twitter.

By Andrew Williams

It can sometimes feel like the world is moving too quickly. It only seems like yesterday that everyone was getting in a lather over Friends Reunited. Now if you’re not on Facebook you may as well get out your Zimmer frame and head for the tea dance.

In the second of a two part series, What Would Google Do? author Jeff Jarvis discusses the future of the media in a Google world, and how surviving 9/11 led him to find an outlet in blogging.

View part one here.

A message board set up in memory of a Wharfer who died in Spain at the weekend has been flooded with tributes.

Salsa champion Lee Wright died after a car crash in Malaga on Sunday, just two days after his 24th birthday.

FACEBOOK is infiltrating Docklands life with two new groups being set up on the social networking site.

Thames Clippers users have the chance to debate the service of the London riverboats, while ExCeL London fans can join a group giving discounted tickets for events.

The Clippers group was started by Neil Andrews, a greetings card salesman, after he recently had problems with the ferries. “I got the service from the very first week it started and feel passionate about it; it’s part of my life,� he said. “I want it to be a success so set up a forum to voice any concerns.�