The New York State Supreme Court has ordered Google to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who posted defamatory comments about model Liskula Cohen on Google’s Blogger site. Google fought to keep the blogger’s identity anonymous. However a judge ordered Google to hand over the blogger’s internet IP address, rejecting the legal claim that […]
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The snitch.name site let’s users search people profiles on multiple social networks and people search sites. Users can pick and choose which sites to search from a list of 39 of the top social networks and people search engines. Some of the searches that snitch.name includes in their list are useless at best, but the […]
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A recent study by a US marketing firm suggests that as much as 40% of tweets on Twitter are ‘pointless babble’. Pear Analytics randomly sampled 2,000 tweets from Twitter’s public stream and divided them into six categories: news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and pass-along value. Pear found that 811 of the sampled tweets ( […]
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Twitter and Facebook, two of the web’s top social networks, are aiming to be the number one player in real-time search. About a year ago, Twitter acquired real-time search engine Summize, a search engine that indexes tweets. Shortly after the Summize acquisition Twitter rolled out Twitter Search and the era of real-time search started. Since […]
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Here is how social networks can take dumb criminals and make them even dumber. A thief who stole a computer and other items from a woman’s house logged into the the woman’s Facebook account and boasted about the theft, even going so far as to say that the Television in the her house wasn’t good […]
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