Spokeo.com Posting Your Personal Info for Use by Online Scammers

A new website called Spokeo.com is compiling personal information from phonebooks, public, financial, real estate records, Facebook and MySpace, and is then posting it on their website as a virtual rolodex. Their...

Flickr Closes Free & Paid Accounts without Explanation to Members

Flickr allows you to upload your photos for family and friends to see what you've been up to. You can create albums and allow strangers or fans searching for certain photos to find your work through tags. ...

Jacksonville took a wrong turn to Clean Air

Jacksonville took a wrong turn to clean Air at the Port, Mayor Peyton may take a wrong turn as well Who elected Jaxport to turn a blind eye to Port Pollution Was it the Mayor the Governor, Why not ask them...

Yahoo, Flickr censor porn sites in India

New Delhi: The two Microsoft bing Yahoo and Flickr too have introduced filters to prevent Indian Internet users from accessing sexual content. According to the report, Yahoo search engine and Flickr photo-sharing...

Flickr Launches Facebook-like People Tagging Feature

Yahoo's photo-sharing website Flickr has launched its new people tagging "People in Photos" feature today. To me, it came as a surprise. I am not a big Flickr user, but I have an account, and for some reason I thought that if Facebook has the people tagging option, than...

Facebook Photo Tags Are All About The Ego, Study Shows

A cnet blogger recently conducted a study comparing flickr and facebook tags. How effective was each one and which did users prefer? Facebook seemed to reign supreme, mostly because of the vanity, I mean photo,...

Inauguration day of greatest Transatlantic at Port of Genova

June 2009. Inauguration day of greatest Transatlantic at Port of Genova

Mambo Dancing Show in Tremestieri Etneo Sicilia Italy

Saturday June 20th 2009, Salsa Mambo Dancing Show in Tremestieri Etneo Amphtheater organized by the city hall Sicilia Italy - Castielli http://www.flickr.com/photos/34409164@N06/

No such thing as "deleted" on the Internet

Yeah, there is no such thing as "deleted" on the internet. Shocked? So was I when I read the following article on Yahoo Tech. The research has been done by researchers at Cambridge University who have found that...

Blogger Targeted by ‘Spin’ in $27 Billion Lawsuit

For most of the past three weeks, I’ve been trying to learn as many details as possible about the a $27 billion class-action lawsuit pitting the Amazon Defense Coalition against Chevron.  Only last night,...

Obama's 100-Day Photos 'Delivering on Change' Posted to Flickr

After leading the way in his use of social media and the internet, President Obama has posted an incredible photo gallery of high-resolution, behind-the-scenes images to the photo-sharing site Flickr to commemorate...

Blogger turns detective to solve G20 death riddle

When 47 year old Ian Tomlinson dropped dead during the G20 London summit protests on 1st April, the police announced that the unfortunate newspaper seller had died of a heart attack whilst making his way home from...

Social web bigger than porn, gambling and pills

A little more conversation, a little less action please.  Internet business types often joke that if you really want to make some scratch you should just set up a porn site.  Though it is sometimes...

1. Mumbai Attacks: 2008 in Review

" 2008's Top 10 Moments in User-Generated News 1.    Mumbai attacks2.    Natural disasters: Emergency info 3.    SF Olympic torch relay protests 4.   ...

Mumbai Terror: Twitter, Flickr & YouTube = Cutting-Edge News Media

Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other people-driven new media are increasingly the front lines of news coverage on important breaking events. While they sometimes include erroneous information, they are proving to be a valuable resource for firsthand reports, and local knowledge...

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