You might be signed up for Lovely-Faces.com’s dating services and not even know it. Website creators Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico took information from 250,000 Facebook users and used it to create their project which uses facial recognition technology to categorize users into the kinds of people they look like they would be. …
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Super Bowl Is Prime Time For Cybercriminal Activity
With Ad Age predicting that we will see more digital online advertising during the Super Bowl than ever before, you can expect people to by simultaneously watching the game while surfing the Internet at the same time. According to a ComScore survey about web use during Superbowl Sunday 2010, two-thirds of people who responded said they …
What Went Viral This Week
February 4, 2011 –
Kenneth Cole Needs A Better PR Person
Kenneth Cole Tweet: Not Funny. Kenneth Cole PR Tweets: Hilarious. [via Newsfeed]
The MTA Symphony
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It’s not only subway musicians that can make awesome music.
VW + Star Wars = Awesome Super Bowl …
Community Wireless: Your Next Hot Hookup?
Municipal and community wireless gurus convened in Washington, D.C. this week — via old-fashioned chairs and, of course, Skype — to discuss the state of alternative Web networks. The events in Egypt, where citizens had their Internet snatched away in the wake of protests, gave them a good soapbox to stand on to suggest the embrace of …
Want To Make An Easy $20K? Crack Google Chrome
For you really tech smart people out there, Google has issued a challenge for you. It’s quite simple: Hack Google Chrome Web browser successfully, and they’ll give you $20,000 cash and a Chrome CR-48.
You’ll have your work set out for you though. Last year, Google’s web browser was the only one left untouched at CanSecWest Pwn2Own …
Foodie Startup Dubbed ‘The Facebook of Food’
“What do you want to eat?”
It’s one of the most common questions we ask every day. But while the foodie media answers this on television, on the web and in blogs, the ever-growing world of social media has yet to tap in to foodie market.
Enter Foodily, a sleek and comprehensive recipe and ingredient search engine with impressive …
U.S. Surveillance, Chinese Espionage and My Impending Lockout from Faceboook
Unsettling developments, on several fronts:
U.S. surveillance. The Obama administration, once again, is reaching farther than its predecessor on electronic surveillance. Now it wants a law requiring internet service providers to keep logs of their customers on the web — all of them, not suspected bad actors — just in case the …
World Web War I: Why Egypt’s Digital Uprising is Different
We’ve seen cyberwar declared before, but the one playing out in Egypt is my own candidate for World Web War I. Hosni Mubarak fired the first shot, switching off the internet and mobile phones after crude attempts to block Twitter and Facebook fell apart. The web fought back in ways we haven’t seen before, and it’s winning.
It no …
Google Docs Gets an Organizational Reboot
The past month has brought a bunch of new features and improvements to Google Docs, and yesterday, the Internet giant rolled out yet another when it announced that it is giving a “refresh” to its documents list.
The “refresh” aims to make the Docs page easier to organize and navigate, and this is accomplished in a few different ways. …
AOL To Debut Web Shorts Based On “CliffsNotes”
You can schedule less time to read those CliffsNotes for the long-winded, heavy-hitting classic piece of literature that your teacher assigned to you for your report.
AOL and Mark Burnett, in conjunction with John Wiley & Sons and Coalition Films, announced that they will be creating comedic digital shorts off the classic reading …
WikiLeaks Hactivists Released on Bail. Next Target: The UK Government?
The five suspects linked to the Anonymous Hactivist group have been released on bail Friday, reports The Guardian. The five males were arrested by London Metropolitan Police Thursday in connection with online DDoS attacks in support of WikiLeaks last December. Meanwhile, the FBI also issued 40 search warrants across the U.S. in their …
What Went Viral This Week
January 28, 2011 –
Soldier Proposes To The Wrong Woman
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Help find the real Samantha! [via Newsfeed]
Truncated News Stories
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