I'm a 16-year-old teen and I'm no different from any of my fellow friends who are also hooked up to the computer these days just as teens were hooked on watching television just a decade ago. In today's advanced world, it's a common sight to see teens surfing the web, chatting with their friends on IMs, watching videos on YouTube, and interacting with their peers on Facebook and MySpace. Teens' active presence on the World Wide Web plays a significant role in the popularity of a social website. Even though teens are heavily obsessed with social websites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, but there are still some sites out there which are unpopular amongst teens. Today, I'll share with you guys 5 social platforms whereby only a small percentage of the total teenage population on the World Wide Web uses the following websites.

Today marks the birth of TechXav China, TechXav's own Chinese website. With over 384 million Chinese Internet users, we feel that it's extremely crucial to venture into the ever-growing economy to diversify our brand. TechXav.cn will contain translated posts from TechXav.com, as well as articles targeted to the Chinese. The site is up and running, and there are currently two posts -- an introduction of the new site and '5 Powerful Tips on Retaining Blog Readership'. TechXav China is developed by our CEO, Zhou Tong, who is from China and is now on a scholarship to Singapore. Translations/writing will be done by him and a couple of his Chinese buddies, who are dedicated to establish a well-known local brand in mainland China.

In an effort to combat phishing and spam, which has been an unsolved issue for Twitter for the past years, the micro-blogging platform yesterday said in a blog post that they have rolled out its own URL shortener called Twt.tl to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter. Even if a bad link is already sent out in an email notification and somebody clicks on it, we'll be able keep that user safe.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has said he "still loves" his Prius car, despite what he suspects is a Toyota software problem behind sudden spikes in acceleration. "It is just like all other gadgets we have...Everything today has a computer in it, so everything will fail," Mr Wozniak said, during on-stage banter as part of a geek talk show at a computer security conference on Friday. He said he had bought nine Prius hybrid cars, and had driven one from the Silicon Valley city of San Jose to San Francisco that day. He had conducted his own tests of Prius acceleration, taking his car to an open stretch of highway at dusk and then notching up the speed, using the cruise control mechanism. At "some number over 72 miles per hour the car accelerated and kept picking up speed," he said. "I wanted to see how high it would go." Mr Wozniak add: "It wound up being unlimited so I hit the brake. The problem had to be in the software.

Inspired by Apple's iPad, the folks over at Transparent House have come up with an interesting video clip. The animation, created using 3Ds Max and V-Render, offers a beautiful visualization of of a brief history of the California-based tech juggernaut, from the its Apple 1 personal computer kit om April 1976 to the recently-launched Apple iPad tablet on January 2010. Full video after the break.

Have you ever wondered how teachers spy on students through laptop webcams. Well, below is a video which shows a quintessential example of how it is done. Assistant Principal Dan Ackerman at Intermediate School 339 Bronx, NY. Ackerman demonstrates how he remotely monitors the students' laptops to check for inappropriate use. And he even boasts that he could use Macbook webcam to see the attire of the student.

If you own a LG phone and have been looking at the logo unintentionally every day but find nothing unusual about it, then you got to open your eyes big enough this time. Well, did you know that LG's logo is actually inspired by Pac-Man, a very popular arcade game in the 1980s? We consumers and probably even some of the employees working at the South Korean company were not aware about it until the secret was unravelled recently. And it is rather amusing though.

Windows Live Messenger is set to receive a major revamp, and "social" will be its main highlight. With social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter getting more popular than ever, it appears that the Windows Live team at Microsoft will integrate these social sites and blogging platforms such as Wordpress into its upcoming Windows Live Messenger, beyond its current chat functionality. The latest leaked screenshots of Windows Live Messenger 2010 Beta or better known as Wave 4 have started surfacing on the web showing its improved interface and some new impressive social features. From the screenshots taken by Chinese site cnbeta, the "Social" view allows users to "connect" to Windows Live and Facebook, including Twitter and Wordpress. As both Twitter and Wordpress do not support IM services, it is too early to determine how Windows Live Messenger will be "linked" with the two platforms. It could be similar to the current Web Activities after all.