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Facebook: Bringing ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ to the General Public Level
Last week or so, Financial Times declared Facebook a “bigger hit than Google.” Hitwise, an online intelligence research firm, found Facebook “surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week” ending March 13, 2010. In just one year, visits to Facebook increased 185% whereas, Google had only increased 9% in [...]
Chatroulette with SoftwareNewsDaily.com
Tried your hand at Chatroulette yet? Talk of Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old high school student, and his website has been circulating the world wide web waves for quite some time now. But if you haven’t heard of it, it’s basically a chat site that randomly pairs two webcam-enabled users to have at it — a [...]
The Socialization of Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and Other Social Media at Work
A couple of eye-brow raising stats came out recently. The Society for New Communications Research released a study regarding journalists and their use of social media. It’s no shock that the study revealed the “use of social media tools by journalists is surging, growing in double-digit percentages in some cases.” But, as ZDNet points out… [...]
Yelp Building a Business on Extortion? Lawsuit Ensues
Beck & Lee (Miami) and the Weston Firm (San Diego) filed a class action lawsuit against Yelp yesterday. Why? Well, according to the Yelp Class Action Website, “the lawsuit alleges that Yelp runs an extortion scheme in which the company’s employees call businesses demanding monthly payments, in the guise of ‘advertising contracts,’ in exchange for [...]
Sex, Sex, Sex: Spammed, Dumped and Censored
Spammed Remember how the Australian Government green lighted an Internet filter not too long ago? In retaliation to the proposed filter, a group of hackers, who call themselves Anonymous, took down two government sites: the main website and the Parliament site. Ars Technica tells us “the plan was DDoS government servers first, and then followup [...]
Google Maps Street View Head to the Mountains
Google Buzz debuted earlier today. A friend mentioned it but I honestly didn’t pay that much attention. But while listening to Merrick, Dools and Ricki-Lee (as I usually do while slaving away on the computer at work), I heard a newscaster on Nova FM describe Google Buzz as a Facebook that uses your Gmail account. [...]
Round-up of the Top 10 Tech News Stories of 2009
How are you saying good-bye to 2009 tonight? Sleeping like any other day? Dinner with friends? Clubbing with strangers? Counting down with Dick Clark (or is it Ryan Seacrest now)? Here at SoftwareNewsDaily, we wanted to say farewell by reminiscing our top 10 technology news stories of 2009. When I say “our” top 10 stories, [...]
Free Backup Services for Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and More
Backupify is dropping all charges and providing free services until January 31st. Securely back up all your online accounts automatically. As an attempt to gain a stronger and larger customer base, Backupify is providing its services without charge during this promotional duration. Backupify president Rob May urges internet users, “If you sign up during this [...]
Search (Free) Faster by Just Saying the Words
Nuance has released another mobile application for iPhone, Dragon Search. Powered by their popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, the app lets you search the web just by saying the words. It’s the “fast, easy, and smart way to search online content on your iPhone using your voice,” declares Nuance. Voice your search and receive results from [...]
Australian Government Green Lights Internet Censorship
The Federal Government in Australia is introducing an internet filter that will block access to sites containing obscene and criminal content — think child sex abuse, sexual violence, bestiality, detailed tutorials on how to commit crimes and other things that are most likely found in the Anarchist’s Cookbook. The Huffington Post reports that such material [...]
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