Today marks the end of Anti-Bullying Week, but for all the kids out there who still get teased and taunted for being a little bit different, it’s a problem that persists for most of their lives. Young Katie Goldman is just one example. Her mother, a writer for Chicago Now’s Portrait of Adoption blog, posted a story today about how …
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Harry Potter Fans Being Hacked?
If you’re looking for the 36-minute clip of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One which was leaked Tuesday, you might be better off forking over the cash to watch the actual movie. PC Tools, an antivirus software company, found out that at least one of the sites where you can download the movie is actually a scam.
While the …
MySpace Integrates Facebook, Universe Doesn’t Collapse
You can now log into the social network that nobody uses anymore with your username and password from the social network everyone uses. And with that, MySpace has pretty much given up on trying to be a social network in the interest of serving as a personalized entertainment site instead.
That’s actually pretty smart.
You can now …
Air Force to Soldiers: Be Careful With Your Social Media Updates
Well, this seemed kind of obvious: The Air Force issued a memo on an internal website telling soldiers not to tweet their locations, check in on foursquare or use Facebook places while in war zones. The notice states “careless use of these services by airmen can have devastating operations security and privacy implications,” AP reports. …
Tweet Sends Chinese Woman To Labor Camp
Cheng Jianping probably didn’t think much about retweeting her fiance’s statement. Now that tweet is now going to cost her a year in a labor camp “for disrupting social order.”
(More on TIME.com: Should Governments Be Able To Censor Facebook?)
The 46-year-old Chinese woman, who goes by the twitter handle wangyi09, retweeted her …
Cooks Source Magazine Folds, Editor Issues Bitter Statement
Whether or not the intentions of the angry Internet mob was to tear down a local publication or not, the Cooks Source Magazine controversy has forced the magazine to fold. In an interview with the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Griggs tells the reporter that the free magazine is done for. The November 2010 issue will be the last …
Google Nerdifies High Fashion with Boutiques.com
“Boutiques uses computer vision and machine learning technology to visually analyze your taste and match it to items you would like.” That’s the promise of Google’s latest project, Boutiques.com.
You can explore virtual boutiques created by movers and shakers within the fashion industry, but the real draw lies in the six-step …
Beatles Crawling All Over Top iTunes Albums Already
If you were wondering, as I was, whether the Beatles would sell on iTunes, the answer appears to be an emphatic YES. In a little more than 24 hours, various Beatles albums have taken over several spots in iTunes’ “Top Albums” list. Mashable reports that every Beatles album available on iTunes has found its way into the top 36 albums at …
Are Girl Talk and Other Mashup Artists Violating Copyright?
If you’re one of the people who got Girl Talk’s (aka Greg Gillis) All Day to actually download, congratulations you’re the proud owner of his latest album. The tracks might sound familiar, though. Girl Talk is a mashup artist, a musician whose instruments are pieces of recorded music that he or she mixes together to compose a …
Should Governments Be Able To Censor Facebook?
This past weekend, Facebook was blocked for a few hours for people in Saudi Arabia trying to get on the social networking site. Whether it was done on purpose by the government, as an anonymous source told AP, or an accident, which is the official statement from the government according to ArabNews.com, will remain a mystery. The …
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You Should Be Using Wolfram|Alpha
Over at TIME.com, you’ll find my new Technologizer column. It’s about Bing, Blekko, and the whole idea of competing with Google–and in it, I mention how dangerous it is for a new company to set itself up as a Google rival, or to be perceived as a Google killer. I mention Cuil, the definitive failed Google killer. But there’s another …
Google Shows Off Secret New Android Phone
Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the hot seat at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday, and wasted little time showing off his company’s next-generation “Nexus S” Android phone.
On the surface it appears to be a Samsung Galaxy S phone (which would explain the “S” moniker), while Schmidt demonstrated a built-in near field communications (NFC) …