Posted by on under social networking site, addicti, facebook, burglar, robbery, ly, real world, logs | 
yet-another-lobbyist writes to mention that Facebook addiction has finally caused real world consequences, at least for one would-be burglar. It seems that 19-year-old Jonathan Parker couldn't stay away from the popular social networking site, even long enough to rob a house. Parker not only stopped mid-robbery to check his Facebook status on the victim's computer, but left it logged in to his account when he left.
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Posted by on under social networking site, coue, twitter, google, dodgeball, co founder, sourced, jaiku, popularity |
In October 2007,
Google bought the Finnish social networking site
Jaiku. In the following couple of years, they somehow managed to do absolutely nothing with it, even as rival Twitter rose in popularity. Today, co-founder
Jyri Engeström is
leaving Google. When
we last talked to him in May, Engeström seemed to be enjoying what he was working on at Google. And as he told us in January, "
We're not dying, we're morphing," after Google decided to cease internal development of Jaiku. Rather than killing off Jaiku completely,
like it did with Dodgeball and others, Google decided to allow Jaiku to be ported over to App Engine, and open-sourced. Sadly, still not much has come of that. And now, it's unclear how much Engeström will have to do with the project from this point on.
Tagi: social networking site, coue, twitter, google, dodgeball, co founder, sourced, jaiku, popularity
Posted by on under social networking site, mobile space, flixster, android, mobile users, good chance, techcrunch, blackberry, apps, landmark, alg, palm |
Flixster, a social networking site for movie fans, is doing pretty well for itself in the mobile space. Name any smartphone platform, and there's a good chance that the Flixster app has spent some time on the top of it's download charts. iPhone? Yep. BlackBerry? Yep. Android and Palm webOS? Double yeps. Earlier today, the company shared with us the news that they'd crossed over a fairly monumental landmark, along with the details surrounding updates for their apps on both Android and BlackBerry OS.
Tagi: social networking site, mobile space, flixster, android, mobile users, good chance, techcrunch, blackberry, apps, landmark, alg, palm
Posted by on under social networking site, japanese department, e store, medical purposes, sun damage, skin type, smoothness, beaten path, mica, dilemma, department stores, skin care, starters, philips, gadgets, audience, cameras |
We've already seen a few Japanese department stores employing
virtual makeover machines, and it looks like Philips is now hoping to bring a similar service to an even wider audience. Dubbed "Crystalize," the company's latest
off the beaten path device makes use of some cameras normally used for medical purposes to take extreme close-up shots of various parts of your face, which are then analyzed for four different conditions (skin type, redness, sun damage, and smoothness). That will apparently cost you $90, which will also get you recommendations for various products to improve your skin (for which Philips apparently doesn't receive any remuneration), and access to a social networking site for continuing service. For starters, however, the service will only be available at one store in Santa Monica, but Philips says it plans to make it available "across the world" in 2010. Video after the break.
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Posted by on under time passwords, social networking site, facebook, good security, security features, new feature, logout |
Social networking site Facebook has been on a roll lately. Last week they unleashed a new feature
allowing users to download their information from the social site, and today they've added two really good security features: one-time passwords and remote logout.
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