A chat on a phone dating service led to the arrest of an Evansville, Indiana man on drug charges. A woman called police after talking to Lawrence McDonald on a telephone dating service Friday night. McDonald reportedly told the woman during their talk that he was engaged in a sexual act with a minor. The […]
Twitter News: Mother Tweets While Son Drowns
In what could be another new low for self-centered and obsessive social networking, CNN is reporting that a mother in Florida was busy on Twitter while her 2 year old son was helplessly drowning in the family’s backyard pool. Then, within minutes of discovering her son’s death, the social networking mother was back on Twitter […]
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Number of Tweets on Twitter Now Exceeds World Population
Twitter, the popular social network and microblogging service, reached an interesting milestone this morning. According to Mashable.com the number of tweets ( Twitter messages ) posted on the site now exceeds the world population at 6.8 billion. It is estimated that Twitter broke this record at around 1 AM EST this morning. The numbers were […]
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Five Google Search Trends for 2010
Google’s Matt Cutts recently discussed search engine trends and search predictions for 2010. Matt discussed where search engine technology is going in 2010 — New Types of Data Searches: Data overload is a big worry among web search engines. As a result, Google is trying to divide and categorize new searches for different types of […]
Short URLs Can Equal Large Security Risks
URL shortening services like bit.ly and tinyurl.com have grown as demand for leaner and cleaner web links has grown due to social networking and microblogging sites like Twitter and Facebook. In addition, the frequent use of shortened URLs on these social media sites has increased the trust that people have in their legitimacy. However, clicking […]