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Forrst One Year Anniversary Numbers, Forrst.me Goes Beta

One year after it went online in January 2010, Forrst, an invitation-only design community has grown spectacularly, posting very good numbers for a niche start-up.Launched a few months after Dribbble, the two established themselves as the main front runners when it came to high-end closed design communities.Right now...

3 February 2011
13:32 GMT

MySpace Gets New Lite Profiles

Ever since it was launched, MySpace has attracted more and more members and has improved the functions it offers to ensure a great user experience. Their latest innovation appeared in the form of a new button in the Nav Bar, which would enable users to switch the standard 'Full' view of the webpage to a new...

15 April 2009
01:47 GMT

Facebook Works on Major Update to Become More Spam-Resistant

Facebook, the so-popular social networking website, is currently working on a major update which will bring several improvements to the service. One of the most important updates is related to the security of its users because Facebook wants to make the profiles more spam-resistant and reduce the amount of spam messa...

22 May 2008
04:34 GMT

Gay Facebook Page Causes Promotion Denial

There's a lot of discrimination today even though the world has evolved a lot since the day people of other color or religious belief were killed on sight. Like any form of warfare, the methods used for discriminating have gone deeper underground into the human psyche. Olden days saw armies of hundreds of thousa...

28 February 2008
16:36 GMT

Porn on Friend's Profile WILL Get You Convicted!

"Now this is a story all about how/ My life got twisted upside down." These were the starting two lines from Will Smith's "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song. The following is also a story about how Officer John Nohelj's life went awry, and all that because of one of his friends on MySpace.Like the maj...

28 January 2008
17:56 GMT

Famous People TinFinger Omnibus Here

TinFinger was launched yesterday to be the user-generated omnibus the market seemed to need. Or, at least that's what its founders must have thought feeling a lack of sites that contain information on celebrities on the web and considering that another would be most welcome.It is designed to combine encyclopedic...

15 January 2008
08:44 GMT

Facebook: Hide Apps from Profile

Facebook is the breeding ground at the moment for the applications that seem to be appearing out of thin air. It is the best means of advertising that an app maker could have ever dreamed of (except the case it were to be Microsoft) and the best way to make yourself noticed by some of the bigger guys in the game.Sadl...

14 January 2008
04:51 GMT

BigSight.org, a Site Attempting to Become the White Pages on the Internet

People search is a big red danger area for any sites attempting to add it to their requisitory, even as an idea. Many have tried to do this and still try (take Facebook for example, or any other social networking site that deals with a lot of personal information), but that always lead to a lot of talk about privacy ...

8 January 2008
08:36 GMT

Google Profiles Out to File You

The path Google is walking on is a tricky one, the Internet users are still fresh after the Facebook problem that they've seen escalate and, eventually, come to a very abrupt ending with the CEO of the social network apologizing. Perhaps this might not be the best moment to push forward the "Google Profiles" ide...

17 December 2007
14:46 GMT

Google Maps Turning Into A Social Network?

Although it might sound a little bit crazy, Google Maps is slowly turning into a social network. Sort of... First, the Mountain View company implemented the My Maps function which allows the consumers to create their own maps and share them with other Google Maps users. Today, the Profile Pages are officially rolled ...

18 October 2007
03:44 GMT

New Digg Goodies Waiting For Your Click

Digg is surely one of the top web technologies nowadays since it records impressive amounts of traffic every day. In case you never heard of it although I think it's impossible unless you were born yesterday, Digg is a news website based entirely on the content submitted by the registered members who post articl...

21 September 2007
15:36 GMT

Privacy Concerns Over The Facebook Public Profiles

A few days ago, the Facebook executives, a top web-based social networking service, announced that their product will make the profiles of the registered users public and accessible to anyone. Until now, you were able to view somebody's information only if you were registered for the service. But what's mor...

7 September 2007
03:47 GMT

Looking For Sex? Here You Go!

Let's say you are a blog reader and you want to find additional blogs with same topics as your own. How can you search for them beside going to Google and typing the desired keyword? Well, the Mountain View company Google found the perfect solution and implemented a special feature into the famous blogging servi...

9 August 2007
03:17 GMT

29.000 Sex Offenders Looking for Teens

MySpace removed no less than 29,000 profiles from its social networking website that were flagged as sex offenders although the company officially said that 7,000 persons were banned from the service. This new number was discovered when the authorities required private information about the sex offenders straight fro...

25 July 2007
04:47 GMT

How to Make the Profile of a Mass Shooting Killer

We may get pissed off many times by the spoiled children of rich men and their behavior, but I bet you won't take a gun and become Rambo. Perhaps the greatest question that the infamous mass shooting at Virginia Tech left in our minds is: what was in the mind of that individual, Cho Seung-Hui, to trigger such a ...

20 April 2007
03:45 GMT

Simple Outlines Reveal to Us Sex, Race and Age

You may believe that race is something not so obvious, but adult brains are so keen in detecting race, sex and age that we can correctly determine those traits from nothing more than a black-and-white silhouette, new experiments show. "It's surprising how much information the silhouette provides," said lead rese...

2 April 2007
08:33 GMT


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