Archive for August, 2009

  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/3854700281_5a8d66fb02_o.png" alt="tewspaper" width="359" height="94" /><a href="http://tewspaper.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Tewspaper</strong></a>, an online newspaper without writers, has launched with coverage of five major metropolitan cities - Baltimore, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. Tewspaper scours social media websites such as Twitter and filters messages down to breaking news. One of the local sites, <strong><a href="http://baltimore.tewspaper.com/" target="_blank">Baltimore News</a></strong>, brings algorithmically filtered news to people in Tewspaper's home town. <strong>Baltimore News via Social Media</strong> Tewspaper is neither endorsed nor sponsored by Twitter or other social media websites; the company uses publicly available APIs to connect with social media sites and find relevant data. One of Tewspaper's innovations is a system of filtering through the obscure and finding the relevant news on social media sites. For example, Twitter alone has over 2 billion messages, and is growing by thousands of messages per minute. Tewspaper makes it easy to find out what is happening now, in an organized, succinct, and accessible fashion. It is an ideal way for the Internet generation, who text and tweet, to view the news at their rapidly moving pace.

    Tewspaper: Crowdsourced News Via Twitter and Social Media

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    tewspaperTewspaper, an online newspaper without writers, has launched with coverage of five major metropolitan cities - Baltimore, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. Tewspaper scours social media websites such as Twitter and filters messages down to breaking news. One of the local sites, Baltimore News, brings algorithmically filtered news to people in Tewspaper's home town. Baltimore News via Social Media Tewspaper is neither endorsed nor sponsored by Twitter or other social media websites; the company uses publicly available APIs to connect with social media sites and find relevant data. One of Tewspaper's innovations is a system of filtering through the obscure and finding the relevant news on social media sites. For example, Twitter alone has over 2 billion messages, and is growing by thousands of messages per minute. Tewspaper makes it easy to find out what is happening now, in an organized, succinct, and accessible fashion. It is an ideal way for the Internet generation, who text and tweet, to view the news at their rapidly moving pace.

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  • <strong><span style="font-size:130%">1. Facebook</span></strong> With over 250 million registered users since its launch in February 2004, Facebook is currently crowned as the world's most popular social networking website, beating fellow rival MySpace. The social giant is co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz who were roommates and fellow computer science students at Harvard University. Designed by the folks at <strong><a href="http://www.o-plus-a.com/" target="_blank">Studio O+A</a></strong>, the engineers at Facebook have now a new and really cool office located at Palo Alto, California, USA. Before the redesign and construction of the 150,000-square-foot office, each of every Facebook employees were consulted to find out what they wanted and what would their work experience better and more productive. Based from the photos taken below, the new office is indeed much more cozy and colorful. I personally love the DJ set and the bender on the wall! <a href="http://www.collegebeing.com/uploads/2007/09/facebook-office-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2576/3852010776_43987d0d8e.jpg" alt="" /></a>

    Offices of the Top 6 Most Popular Social Websites (PICS)

    Posted on August 24, 2009 | No Comments
    1. Facebook With over 250 million registered users since its launch in February 2004, Facebook is currently crowned as the world's most popular social networking website, beating fellow rival MySpace. The social giant is co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz who were roommates and fellow computer science students at Harvard University. Designed by the folks at Studio O+A, the engineers at Facebook have now a new and really cool office located at Palo Alto, California, USA. Before the redesign and construction of the 150,000-square-foot office, each of every Facebook employees were consulted to find out what they wanted and what would their work experience better and more productive. Based from the photos taken below, the new office is indeed much more cozy and colorful. I personally love the DJ set and the bender on the wall!

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2604/3842181722_6f98cf6edf_o.jpg" width="356" height="389" alt="twitter-t" />A month ago, the folks at Twitter had applied a trademark for "tweet" and this had sparked off controversy among developers who were worried that the trademark would affect their applications consisting of the word "Tweet". Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, said "<em>we have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective</em>" in a <strong><a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2009/07/may-tweets-be-with-you.html" target="_blank">blog post</a></strong> dated July 1. Standing from a developer's perspective, I heaved a sigh of relief and rejoice with my other fellow friends working in the app development sector. What made surprised me was that the USPTO (US Patent and Trademarks Office) rejected the trademark application just hours after Stone's post and on the very same day. According to their records (<strong><a href="http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77715815" target="_blank">#77715815</a></strong>), Twitter filed for a trademark on April 16, 2009 and was turned down on July 1, 2009.

    Twitter’s Trademark “Tweet” was Actually Rejected Just Hours after it had been Revealed

    Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
    twitter-tA month ago, the folks at Twitter had applied a trademark for "tweet" and this had sparked off controversy among developers who were worried that the trademark would affect their applications consisting of the word "Tweet". Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, said "we have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective" in a blog post dated July 1. Standing from a developer's perspective, I heaved a sigh of relief and rejoice with my other fellow friends working in the app development sector. What made surprised me was that the USPTO (US Patent and Trademarks Office) rejected the trademark application just hours after Stone's post and on the very same day. According to their records (#77715815), Twitter filed for a trademark on April 16, 2009 and was turned down on July 1, 2009.

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2628/3841297141_82f92d5a15_o.jpg" width="525" height="294" alt="facebook_hack_0504" />Got a Facebook message from a friend claiming to have been stranded overseas and asking for money to cover his hotel bill or air ticket home? Beware. His account could have been used by hackers to make such an appeal. A couple of years ago, hackers were breaking into e-mails accounts and using them to claim that the account-holder was stranded overseas and needed money wired over. Now, Facebook accounts are fast beoming a preferred target. Mr Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at information technology security and control firm <strong><a href="http://www.sophos.com/" target="_blank">Sophos</a></strong>, said it is "quite a common scam at the moment" because hackers can easily contact all the account-holder's friends and lace the message with loads of personal information gleaned from the account. Sometimes, the scammers wait for a reply before giving instructions; at other times, they ask outright for the money to be transferred via money-transfer services company Western Union. IT security specialists say such scams are happening worldwide, but no one is tracking the numbers and most cases go unreported.

    Hackers Prey on Facebook Friends by Spinning Yarn about being Stranded Overseas & Ask for Money

    Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
    facebook_hack_0504Got a Facebook message from a friend claiming to have been stranded overseas and asking for money to cover his hotel bill or air ticket home? Beware. His account could have been used by hackers to make such an appeal. A couple of years ago, hackers were breaking into e-mails accounts and using them to claim that the account-holder was stranded overseas and needed money wired over. Now, Facebook accounts are fast beoming a preferred target. Mr Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at information technology security and control firm Sophos, said it is "quite a common scam at the moment" because hackers can easily contact all the account-holder's friends and lace the message with loads of personal information gleaned from the account. Sometimes, the scammers wait for a reply before giving instructions; at other times, they ask outright for the money to be transferred via money-transfer services company Western Union. IT security specialists say such scams are happening worldwide, but no one is tracking the numbers and most cases go unreported.

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  • <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalpapercuts/2789585613/" target="_blank"><img style="float: right;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2789585613_891d96d4b4.jpg" alt="" /></a>When Twitter experiences an outage, users will see the “fail whale” error message created by Australian artist and designer <strong><a href="http://twitter.com/YiYingLu" target="_blank">Yiying Lu</a></strong>. It's a whimsical illustration of red birds using nets to hoist a whale from the ocean. The message reads: “Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.” She didn't expect that her work would become a 'hit' after uploading her illustration to iStockphoto in July 2007 until <strong><a href="http://twitter.com/biz" target="_blank">Biz Stone</a></strong>, one of the founders of Twitter happened to stumble across her image a year later. During that time, Twitter was experiencing regular service outrages and this had spurred Stone on to find a suitable and cute downtime image. He purchased the iStockPhoto's standard license, which grants a perpetual worldwide right for such online uses.

    50+ Really Cool Twitter ‘Fail Whale’ Images/Graphics

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    When Twitter experiences an outage, users will see the “fail whale” error message created by Australian artist and designer Yiying Lu. It's a whimsical illustration of red birds using nets to hoist a whale from the ocean. The message reads: “Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.” She didn't expect that her work would become a 'hit' after uploading her illustration to iStockphoto in July 2007 until Biz Stone, one of the founders of Twitter happened to stumble across her image a year later. During that time, Twitter was experiencing regular service outrages and this had spurred Stone on to find a suitable and cute downtime image. He purchased the iStockPhoto's standard license, which grants a perpetual worldwide right for such online uses.

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://www.finjan.com/securetweets/images/securetweets_logo.jpg" alt="" />With regards to Twitter's exponential growth, an increasing number of spammers, bots or even hackers tried to make use of the world's most popular micro-blogging platform to either publish malicious links that will lead you to phishing sites or promote their products incessantly. These make up of a relatively large percentage of the total number of tweets posted by users. As URL shortening services like Bit.ly and TinyURL dominate the entire Twitter community, hackers have started to abuse these URLs in tweets and retweets to spread their malware and scareware. In an unfortunate incident whereby one of your friends' account has been abused, the hacker may spread malicious links. Most probably you would trust him or her but when you clicked on it, you're being directed to a "dirty" site. Here's a tool which helps Twitter users browse safely comes in really handy.

    Finjan Releases Browser Add-On To Help Twitter Users Browse Safely

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    With regards to Twitter's exponential growth, an increasing number of spammers, bots or even hackers tried to make use of the world's most popular micro-blogging platform to either publish malicious links that will lead you to phishing sites or promote their products incessantly. These make up of a relatively large percentage of the total number of tweets posted by users. As URL shortening services like Bit.ly and TinyURL dominate the entire Twitter community, hackers have started to abuse these URLs in tweets and retweets to spread their malware and scareware. In an unfortunate incident whereby one of your friends' account has been abused, the hacker may spread malicious links. Most probably you would trust him or her but when you clicked on it, you're being directed to a "dirty" site. Here's a tool which helps Twitter users browse safely comes in really handy.

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3570/3833476150_5f0a78efa9_o.jpg"/>Recently, the folks at Google have launched a new version of its popular search engine. Dubbed as the "next generation of Google search", <strong><a href="http://www2.sandbox.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Caffeine</a></strong> comes with several crucial improvements such as faster indexing speed, accuracy, size and comprehensiveness. I've tried it out and there's no doubt that it's much faster than the current version and some frequent Googlers even said that it's capable of generating real-time results just like what Twitter Search is doing now. If you would like to see the improvements Google has made in its new version of search distinctively, I would suggest you to try out a website which enables you to compare the current Google Search and Caffeine all in one page, side by side.

    How to Compare Google & Caffeine and See the Differences Distinctively All In One Page?

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Recently, the folks at Google have launched a new version of its popular search engine. Dubbed as the "next generation of Google search", Google Caffeine comes with several crucial improvements such as faster indexing speed, accuracy, size and comprehensiveness. I've tried it out and there's no doubt that it's much faster than the current version and some frequent Googlers even said that it's capable of generating real-time results just like what Twitter Search is doing now. If you would like to see the improvements Google has made in its new version of search distinctively, I would suggest you to try out a website which enables you to compare the current Google Search and Caffeine all in one page, side by side.

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  • <img style="float: right;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2605/3832582243_50c2ac1375.jpg" width="500" height="309" alt="44tips2" />Currently in early beta, <strong><a href="http://www.44tips.com" target="_blank">44tips</a></strong> is a website which aims to help users organize their favorite websites or social accounts all in one place without any much hassle. Focusing on simplicity, users can create a functional, simple and easy-to-use startup page with everything you love such as importing photos, videos, music, bookmarks and many more by bring all your online accounts together in one place. Just like the iPhone, in a uniform and visually attractive format.

    44tips.com – The Most Social Online Start Up Page Ever?

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | No Comments
    44tips2Currently in early beta, 44tips is a website which aims to help users organize their favorite websites or social accounts all in one place without any much hassle. Focusing on simplicity, users can create a functional, simple and easy-to-use startup page with everything you love such as importing photos, videos, music, bookmarks and many more by bring all your online accounts together in one place. Just like the iPhone, in a uniform and visually attractive format.

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