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The people over at Facebook are going to try and get large page users to authenticate who they are. The hope is that by doing this, Facebook may be able to weed out those pages that are falsely being posted claiming to be someone or something else. This new verification process started last week and [...]

You have to love dumb crooks. In this reported case a burglar decided to check out his Facebook page while stealing two rings from the victim’s home. When the victim spotted the open page, the crook failed to log off, she reported this along with the theft. The dummy was later arrested by authorities.
The article [...]

HP is introducing their new Dreamsceen computer which as of this writing, is currently not available. But over at Best Buy they have some information on what the HP Dreamscreen is going to be, but more importantly what it is not going to be. It is not going to be enabled with touch screen technology, [...]

The NFL is taking a position that they do not want any NFL personnel to Tweet during game play. The problem goes back to the NFL draft when some personnel were Tweeting to fans their selection of players. Because of Twitter and Facebook availability to almost everyone in the world, The NFL is taking a [...]

Local and state tax collectors have added a new tool to their arsenal to locate tax cheats. The agencies have gone to Facebook and MySpace looking for those who have failed in paying their share of taxes. According to one report the tax collecting agencies are finding it a great tool in locating those who [...]

The social networking site is facing a lawsuit in which the plaintiffs are complaining that their privacy is being violated when they share photo’s and such on the Facebook site. What doesn’t make any sense is that they are doing exactly what the Facebook site was originally designed to do. What is also strange is [...]

Google is pushing forward with an idea to give us the finger, but a finger known as a ‘New WebFinger’. What is it? Back in the early days of the web it  provided extensive information about the user of an email account. But the practice lost favor due to privacy considerations.
According to a recent article [...]

Celebrities are finding it hard to know who is who on Facebook. Some are complaining that they are not able to distinguish friends from people who are just plain bored with their lives. Because of this some are making the switch to Twitter.
In a recent article it states that::
After Bill Gates recently admitted that he [...]

I just happened to stumble onto an article by Mark Cuban and his take why everything that is free will eventually fail. He makes mention of some of the web’s favorite freebies such as Twitter, Facebook, and also Google. His theory is that there is what are called “Black Swans” who will have a better [...]

Opera reminds me of the children’s story about the little engine trying to pull a long train over a mountain. The little engine keeps saying ‘I think I can’. Which should become Opera’s slogan. While the other engines like IE, Safari, Firefox and Chrome continue to be the market leaders, Opera just fails to be [...]

Starting this Saturday morning, June 13, at 12:01am EDT, Facbook users will be asked to choose a username for their profiles. This mad rush to grab a username should cause plenty of headaches if and when the masses decide to swamp the Facebook servers. But Facebook may be up to the challenge and have stated [...]

Anyone who thinks that the holocaust did not happen now has a place to vent their opinions. It seems that Facebook allows discussion about what the Nazis did to the Jewish people during World War II. What is amazing is some of the hatred that is being spread by those that deny the holocaust happened and [...]

One of the things you have to love about technology is how it changes the way we humans interact with each other via our computers. Who would of thought 10 years ago that we would all be fixated on a social network site and basically make emailing obsolete. But times have changed and now the [...]

Millions of us post on Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Geeks and other social networking sites, expecting what we post is private and shared only with those we allow into our site. But all of this could change if a court allows access to a Facebook site to discover if a plaintiff in a court case has [...]

I just read an article in which it stated that social networking site MySpace has just purged their site of some 90,000 sex deviants. MySpace originally stated that they suspected only 40,000 perverts had made their way onto the site. But later admitted the increase in numbers.
At the same time, social networking site Facebook, is [...]

Google is taking on Facebook after the social network refused to allow Google’s Friend Contact on their site. Now that Google has their new phone, it seems that the search giant is not going to allow Android development of any software that can be used for Facebook users. Google may be trying to get back [...]

This unfortunate incident occurred in the UK after a man found out that after he left, his wife changed her Facebook profile from married to single. The husband got drunk and high on cocaine and took her life after a very brutal assault against her person. According to the article is also stated that:
He beat [...]

There is a new kid on the block that claims that it will be the place that sports fanatics will want to meet and to challenge their knowledge among other sports enthusiastic. The basics of SportsFanLive is to become the Facebook of sports and not just another site spewing out scores and stats. Users can [...]