Recent changes to the Whitepages.com people search will bring directory assistance listings into the Web 2.0 era. WhitePages.com is now the first major online 411 people search in the United States to let people edit their own residential phone, business phone and street address listings. These custom directory assistance listing options allow people to have […]
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Facebook Takes On Google For Web Dominance
In what is shaping up to be a battle among two web bigshots, Facebook is making moves that suggest they want to take on Google for search engine dominance. Facebook taking steps to turn itself into a web site that is more powerful than just a social network. Facebook recently acquired FriendFeed, a popular social […]
Over 3 Million People Claim Their Usernames on Facebook
In the past 24 hours Facebook started allowing people to claim custom URLs, using their real names, for their personal Facebook profiles. This will make searching and finding people on the Facebook social network easier, especially when searching for a person whose Facebook profile has been indexed by a search engine like Google. In the […]
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Papau Indonesia May Monitor HIV Carriers With Microchips
In a controversial move to fight the spread of HIV in Indonesia’s Papau, lawmakers are considering a proposal to monitor the behavior of known HIV carriers with a microchip implant. From Breitbart.com — Lawmakers in Indonesia’s Papua are mulling the selective use of chip implants in HIV carriers to monitor their behaviour in a bid […]
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MySpace Sex Offenders Caught by Wired News
Here is an interesting experiment in computer programming, investigative tactics and creative sleuthing. Wired News is reporting that they created a software script that sorted through MySpace profiles and compared them with sex offender registries to find a number of registered sex offenders who had personal profiles on the social network site. From the article […]