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Web Criminals Head to Twitter

August 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Internet
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Via SecurityProPortals.com

Well, with any service that gets popular around the internet, there’s bound to be some hackers included in that population. The same stands for Twitter. Kaspersky Labs discovered a fake profile of the Brazilian Celebrity, Kelly Kelly, that promises to link you to hot Brazilian girls, but instead sends you to a malicious application. It’s disguised as Adobe Flash player, however it’s a fake version of it and you have to install it to “see” the “videos.” Additionally, instead of just getting one Trojan out of this, the victim’s machine gets slammed with ten, that are all desguised as MP3 files.

So basically, we can only expect more of these profiles to pop up unless Twitter can possibly do something against this.. which does not seem much likely, sadly.

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A Tour of the “New” Facebook

July 21st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Features, Internet
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As I just stated earlier, Facebook has given users the option to switch over to the new version of their site. I decided I would and then throw up a little introduction here for you guys.

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Try out the “new” Facebook

July 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Internet
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Facebook has released a message to all of those who have subscribed to the Facebook Profiles Preview page announcing that the new long-awaited profile designs are now available to those who want to try it out. Pretty much like a Public-Beta. After the next few weeks, they’ll be switching the entire site over to the new design, regardless of whether you want it or not. If you’d like to switch over now (you’ll still have the option to switch back to the old version for the time being if you wish) you can visit: http://www.new.facebook.com.

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Wordpress 2.6 is Available

July 15th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Internet



Version 2.6 of Wordpress is now available at http://wordpress.org. They’ve added a couple of snazzy new features in including:

  • Post revisions
  • Press This! (Post from anywhere on the web)
  • Shift:Gears
  • Theme Previews
  • Wordcount
  • Image Captions
  • 192 Bug Fixed
  • And More!

Might as well just check out their announcement on the site for yourself. Click!

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Viacom holds back on YouTube user Histories

July 15th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Internet
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Viacom has backed off on an order made to YouTube to hand over all the viewing histories for their users; Twelve Terabytes of data. The information would include what users, their IP addresses, what videos they watched and all that type of stuff. Blogs around the net predicted this would be to only hunt down and sue individual users for watching copyrighted videos online.

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Need to know when the planet’s Destroyed?

June 22nd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Internet
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The International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board has got you covered! They’re a skilled team of experts working around the clock to make sure the Earth still exists and will alert you when the Earth is destroyed.

I’d advise signging up for updates; it should be everyone’s top concern that their home planet still exists.

Have fun.

Myspace attempts a decent update…

June 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Internet
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Social-Networking site Myspace has finally made some long-overdue layout updates. First thing you’ll notice is the new home-page design. They finally parted from their old look of a million misplaced square boxes, to a new look of a million misplaced rounded-rectangular boxes with shiny gradients.

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How we read online

June 13th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Internet
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Michael Agger at Slate has a great piece on how the modern internet user reads on screen. Among other things, blogs are discussed:

If you want to beat the Internet, you’re not going to do it by blogging (since even OK thinkers occasionally write a great blog post) but by offering a comprehensive take on a subject (thus saving the reader time from searching many sites) and supplying original thinking (offering trusted insight that cannot be easily duplicated by the nonexpert).

In that case, I’d do well to actually provide useful original thought, rather than linking to, quoting and briefly discussing or commenting on various posts or pieces around the internet. Not that I’ll actually do any of that, though.

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Update on Linden Dollars

May 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Entertainment, Internet
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[I'm a] PC Site has been following the currency system of Second Life, Linden Dollars, for some time now. The virtual currency is used to buy and sell real estate and accessories in the game, and is exchanged for roughly 250 per USD$1. Tyler Cowen, economics professor at George Mason University, has a post on the currency economics of Linden Dollars. First, for context, he writes: (links mine)

Free banking economists used to debate whether a private sector fiat currency could succeed. Hayek, in his Denationalisation of Money, said yes but most other people said no. The obvious problem is time inconsistency, namely that the fiat currency issuer will at some point inflate away its value to the seigniorage-maximizing margin, noting that such a margin changes with the passage of time and not necessarily in a favorable direction.

Id est, the currency issuer’s incentives are diametrically opposed to those of the currency user. However, as Linden Dollars are issued by the same entity that stands to profit from transactions in Second Life, this does not seem to be the case here. Cowen continues: (link his)

Who would have foreseen that maximizing income from “land” sales might check this outcome? I think of Linden Dollars as akin to legal tender currencies: you can’t buy anything in Second Life without them. Since the goods and services in Second Life have value the currency does too.

Who had expected that the next generation of private currency suppliers would make it work by, in God-like fashion, supplying accompanying worlds as well? What other problems can be solved this way? Or are Linden Dollars the next bubble waiting to burst?

I would point to evidence that the Second Life boom is liable to turn into bust to answer the last question, but the workability of Second Life in some respects does not preclude its unworkability in others.

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TorrentSpy gets SLAMMED.

May 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in Internet, News, Technology
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Popular torrent search engine, TorrentSpy, has been slammed with a final ruling by a Federal judge that will force the company to pay $110 million ($110,000,000.00 <– Yes, that’s a big number) to the Motion Picture Association of America after years of struggling with court trials. More »

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