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Kidsocial Aims to Make Social Networking Safer for Kids

KidSocial

Parents worry a lot when their kids spend a lot of time on Facebook. There are online predators, scammers, and people who might be just out to hurt your kids.
Granted, these kind of people aren’t just on Facebook; they’re actually all over the web. The social network is just…

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February 13th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

Is Facebook Breeding Murderers (and Laptop Killers)?

Facebook Kills

In this day and age, people aren’t just being judged by who they are or what they’re really like in real life anymore. They’re also being judged by the number of friends or followers they have on Facebook and Twitter and the kind of reputation they have on these networks.…

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February 11th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

Think You Have The Most Expensive Picture? Think Again

The Most Expensive Picture

How much is a single picture worth? 1000 words? 100 dollars? If you think your picture is more valuable than any other image on the planet, then you might want to head on over to The Most Expensive Picture (TMEP) to make it official.…

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February 9th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

PwnedList Lets You Know If You Got Hacked

PwndList

You might have noticed that there have been an increasing number of attacks on company servers and databases in recent times. Some groups hack for the fun of it all, although I don’t really see where the fun in causing such damage is, though. However, others hackers have more malicious…

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February 6th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

PleaseCycle Gives You Perks For Racking Up BikeMiles

PleaseCycle

When you train your dog, you employ a rewards system to reinforce good behavior, while trying to get rid of the bad ones. Parents raise their children in a similar manner, and many businesses employ the same approach in trying to keep their customers coming back.
So really, there’s no…

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February 2nd, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

Olly and Molly: Smell and Taste Your Tweets

olly_molly_robots

People are always trying to figure out ways to make the internet more tangible, and one of the more common ways to do this is to build devices that interact with Twitter or Facebook in some way. In this case, we have a pair of devices which let you smell…

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February 1st, 2012 by: Technabob

Google Earth Smooths Out its Rough Edges

I remember back when Google Earth first launched. I thought it would be cool to see the planet right from my desktop and immediately went to find my house. The area where I live was so blocky and cut together from so many individual photos that it was impossible to…

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January 28th, 2012 by: Shane McGlaun

Kickstart Leebre to Get the Social Book Publishing Movement Going

le_leebre

There are a lot of blogging platforms available on the Internet so you can self-publish your thoughts and random ramblings for the whole world to read. That’s great news for people who want to share their ideas or let off some stream – but what about the writers who want…

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January 20th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

Watch Your Kids: Hackers Now Planting Viruses into Kids’ Games

GameVirus

Most adults these days have wisened up and refrain from clicking on banner ads that claim “You just one a prize!” or “You just won the 10,000,000th user award!”… That means virus writers have to think of other measures to propagate their viruses and malware, and it seems that they’ve

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January 17th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

“If I Die” Facebook App Lets You Post One Last Message From Your Grave

If I Die Facebook

Some families contact Facebook to have the accounts of their loved ones closed when they pass away. Others just leave them be so contacts can leave comments remembering the life they led and the impact they made on the lives of others.…

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January 16th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

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