Another criminal caught on Facebook. Maxi Sopo was a fugitive on the run until he updated his Facebook profile and notified his social network of friends, including a former Justice Department official, that he was hiding out in Cancun, Mexico. Maxi Sopo went on bragging to his Facebook friends about what a good time he […]
WhitePages People Search Meets Web 2.0
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 […]
Mashable’s Pete Cashmore Interviewed By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News recently interviewed Pete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable.com, on social media, web 2.0 and the rising success and profitability of the Mashable brand. Some facts about Pete Cashmore and Mashable: – Cashmore founded Mashable.com in 2005 at the age of 19. – The Mashable blog is focused almost exclusively on Social Networks, […]
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Google Earth Used to Track People, Vehicles in Real Time
Google Earth is being used with CCTV video to view people and vehicles in real time by students from the Georgia Institute of Technology. The potential and possible use of this new search technology will be viewed with excitement by some people and fear by others. Right now the technology makes the people and vehicles […]
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A Facebook Poke Leads to Police Arrest
A Tennessee woman has been arrested for “poking” someone on the Facebook social network. Shannon D. Jackson was arrested on September 25th for allegedly violating a court order of protection. Jackson is accused of using a virtual Facebook “poke” to communicate with a Hendersonville woman, which violates a court order of protection, that states “no […]