New papers uncovered via the Freedom of Information Act show that federal agents have been making friends and keeping tabs on people in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the rest. The papers showed that they use those fake accounts to check up on alibis and talk about sweet FBI parties. Apart from unveiling how much [...more]
I have a lot of friends who are both big bicycling enthusiasts and tech aficionados, so this news item will be of particular interest to them. Google has added a bicycle directions option to its popular Google Maps application. The new biking directions work exactly the same way as searching for directions by car – [...more]
The NYC based live streaming startup Livestream just partnered up with the massive newswire service Associated Press to run all of the AP’s live video streams, streams until this point I had no idea existed. The first event to be covered under the new Livestream/AP partnership? The Oscars! Look, I could give two craps about [...more]
Google Maps is taking a note from Microsoft’s Photosynth and tapping into user photos to create street views of places that street view doesn’t reach. Google released a video of the new addition in action, and it looks almost exactly like Photosynth. It basically uses location data and algorithms to combine photographs into [...more]
The advent of cloud-based file storage is one of my personal favorite technological advances of recent years. I once lost several years of writing when my computer’s hard drive failed because I was bad about backing it up on discs, but now I’ll never have to worry about that again. Every file I save is [...more]
MySpace, a service which we used to like but now do not like, has announced a new slogan: “Discover & Be Discovered.” The slogan fits in line with MySpace’s new user experience philosophy, which will be to bombard you with new and unexpected content the moment you hit the website. And what will you be bombarded [...more]
A new site designed to waste your time shows you just what any Web site would sound like. I spent far, far too long plugging in every Web site. I must say, Techomaly.com is the best! [Via Codeorgan] [...more]
A couple of Harvard boys took a survey of typosquatting web sites — sites that take advantage of common misspellings — and found nearly 1 million sites taking advantage of the top 3,264. All those sites mean a whopping $497 million in ad revenue for Google. To the researchers, Google’s funding and ad [...more]
More and more evidence is rolling out to prove that the internet is the greatest time-waster mankind has ever created. In the month of December 2009, 178 million internet users in the US watched 33 billion online videos. Of those 33 billion videos, 40% or 13 billion were on YouTube, making it by far the [...more]
What the hell is Google Buzz anyway? A BBS embedded in Gmail? A Twitter-killer? The death of Facebook? Well whatever it is, it’s got over 9 million posts and comments since its launch on Tuesday. That’s over 160,000 comments & posts per hour, and 200 posts per minute by mobile device. That’s incredible for a service [...more]
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