Apple showed off the basic integration of Facebook with its new music-based social service network ping, but this feature has disappeared shortly after the users of iTunes Ahold 10. Reason Ping users lost the ability to search for friends on Facebook may be because Facebook has chosen to block access to this feature, according AllThingsD. [...]
The smartphone without a voice plan is a fantasy that many people share, at least judging by comments from blog and website that I read in the last two years. At Apple’s press conference on Wednesday, Steve Jobs has hinted that the iPod Touch could do the job, saying that “many people call it an [...]
How do we reduce our oil dependency as a civilization? Driving a Tesla roadster, the high-performance electric sports car, at high speed from City airport to Canary Wharf in London, it becomes clear that our oil dependency is manifest in the cars on the road, the aircraft in the sky and the boats gliding on [...]
Former president George W. Bush on Thursday took to Facebook to deliver what he deemed to be his “inaugural address” on the social media website. In a video posted just one week after Bush signed-up to join the site, the former president alerts his supporters that while he “may be done with politics,” he’s “not [...]
Is Netflix down for you today, June 10, 2010? If so, you’re not alone. Twitter users first reported the Netflix outage about an hour ago, and tweets continue to flow about the issue. TeriMeasdale: Woaa Netflix is down. What do I do now? Shut down? BarbInNebraska: Oh no, Netflix is down! We can’t watch any [...]
NEW YORK — The PTA and Facebook are joining forces to promote Internet safety through a set of tools and resources for kids, schools and parents. The world’s largest online social network and the National PTA will work together to build a program to provide information and support about such issues as cyberbullying, good online [...]
I frequently ask my friends to share their weird text messages — or stories about text messages from their friends — with me. This one came from a friend of the guy who sent it, and not from the recipient, although that hardly matters. It’s still weird and kind of creepy. It said: “I had [...]
It’s difficult to fathom the size of the ongoing Gulf oil spill, but NASA can help put things in perspective thanks to this image captured by their MODIS Rapid Response System, which was “developed to provide near realtime imagery from the MODIS instrument for users who require an immediate view of a specific phenomenon from [...]
It is a given that people often say things on the Internet that they would not say if the speaker were identified. I have to admit right up-front that I have an axe to grind here. I had this dream, maybe it was a fantasy, that I could write a blog which would engender open [...]
Originally published on Epolitics.com Minor scuffle in the online communications world: BP has purchased Google Ads on search terms related to the Gulf oil spill (for example: “oil spill”), with its ads showing up at the top of the results column whenever people look for those keywords. The resulting landing page is neatly scrubbed of [...]