Baidu the biggest Chinese search engine has added a caricature of Barack Obama on their logo for one day, and that logo links to Obama’s profile.
Obama is the sixth individual and the only
Baidu rarely dedicate its home page to an individual, and is certain that Hillary Clinton and John McCain will never be featured on the Baidu logo.
Chris Clark the owner of the Pizza.com has sold the domain for the sum of $2.6 million.
Chris registered the domain in 1994, for $20 for it and kept paying the annual fee until recently when he found out that the Vodka.com domain was sold for $3 million.
The first bid was of $100 and one week later the auction ended with the $2.6 million offer.
After the leak of the Norwegian movie “Lange Flate Ballær II” onto several BitTorrent sites the movie director Harald Zwart said that it’s an honor that someone took the effort to record it in a movie theater.
Zwart told Nettavisen.no: “I think it’s perfectly fine that some people choose to post the movie online. It shows that people are interested in it”, “In the IT society of today it’s naive to think that this wouldn’t happen. We consider it a huge compliment. After all, what has happened is that someone has smuggled a camera into a theater and then recorded the whole movie”.
Zwart doesn’t hold a grudge against the people who share his movie online though, but he made some negative comments about the quality of the recording, “The movie was filmed using a video camera in a local cinema somewhere. The quality is bad, and the movie definitely is better in theaters”.
It is a video from a bikini contest that got more that 4616 diggs. And in just 12 minutes the video was made popular by 400 diggs.
NSFW - Not Safe For Work
TagCow is a new service that automatically tags photos. They said that users can upload thousands of photos that can be tagged and in a few minutes.
And it turns out that the service is powered by humans. At Amazon’s Mechanical Turk you can apply for a job that pays 4 cents for five tagged photos. Amazon Mechanical Turk is a service where people are paid to do things that are to complex for computers to do.
Amazon launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon users to buy stuff through mobile phone text message.
User’s text the name of a product, the description, or the UPC or ISBN number to Amazon 262966 and if Amazon has the item, the users will get the two results sent to them.
If the user wants to make a purchase, he replies with 1 or 2 and is asked for his email address and zip code. Then he is called back by the system to complete the checkout process via an automated voice system.
This is a free service, but if you use TextBuyIt you can’t take advantage of “Deal of the Day” items or “Gold Box Discount”.
Google didn’t stop after the Virgle hoax and delivered more hoaxes.
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Use meat search ways of interpreting human search "A tiger, n-Wu", which is on the distant quiz on the "human search," explained one Googler. Today would like to come back to this project, the most interesting is the different "types" Googler to warm to what they see as "human search," Yansigefeng the engineers, the pursuit of perfect love UI designers and the write poems Googler.”
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“Instead of utilizing technology to provide a service that Google Korea's R & D center is a combination of metrics for dialect translation systems developed by its current service through the Google translation. For example, if you want to translate the dialect Jeolla Province was put into sentences, sentences that the document search and translated into various dialects, dialect retrieved documents are converted back Jeolla Province will be provided to the user, Google lets you translate the dialect of the local dialect to another did not even know you can retrieve all the documents without any inconvenience.”
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Google is "to organize the world's information to people around the world that can be used to access" in order to fulfill its mission and started PigeonRank night working on the development of the technology. In particular, the R & D Center in
Google Australia launched gDay, a new service that lets you search today the web pages published tomorrow.
“Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s
Did you notice the gDay logo?
Also from Google
"Just click Set custom time from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox."
Google Book Search launched a new feature they capture the smell of books.
“Today I'm pleased to let you know that we've made some headway with one type of volume we've struggled with in the past: books employing scratch-and-sniff technology. Using special equipment and tricky JavaScript, we're now able to capture some of the smells during the scanning process and then embed them in your web browser when you preview these titles in Google Book Search.”
This are just a few hoaxes and there are many more.
Google and Virgin have created a joint venture Virgle Inc., with the purpose of colonizing Mars. The spacecrafts should be ready to send people and materials to Mars in 2014, the crafts will be manufactured by Virgin and Google will finance project.
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Also Virgin created a 100 years plan for the development of the Mars Settlement and Google already started to sell ads on Mars.
Don’t take this too seriously like my, this is Google’s April Fool's day of 2008.
For more information read the Google blog.
After the launch of MySpace Mobile, MySpace has expanded the text message alert program with five new carriers Alltel Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile USA, T-Mobile USA and US Cellular through a partnership with mBlox.
Users can receive notifications of friend requests, profile comments and new messages through SMS message. Until now three carriers supported the service AT&T, Helio and Sprint.
Entrecard social network has closed their Series A round of funding. They didn’t said how much money they received, but the investment is evaluated at $1.1 million. The founder of Powweb, Andrew Te led the investment.
In five months it has reached a rank of 1433 on Alexa and serves up to 2 million widgets a day.
The tax isn’t mandatory but if the ISPs will be force to join the scheme it will be. It may seem that this is good news but it isn’t because this is an extortion scheme and if it get approved it will be government endorsed extortion, making RIAA and the other music labels criminal organizations, from witch users can't escape.
Even if you will pay the tax it will still be illegal to download music from the Internet through BitTorrent or from other P2P networks. And because like any other criminal organization RIAA will get greedy and the $5 tax will soon become the $10 tax. From the $5 tax RIAA will generate $20 billion a year in revenues making it a very powerful organization.
Unauthorized software was installed on servers in Hannaford Bros supermarkets in the Northeast and
Hannaford doesn't know how the malware got in its 271 stores' servers. 1,800 cases of fraud have been linked to the data breach, with unauthorized charges showing up far in
This appears to be the first large-scale theft of credit and debit card numbers while the information was in transit.
That the breach, occurred between Dec. 7 and March 10 allowed credit and debit card numbers to be stolen as shoppers swiped their cards at checkout line machines and the information was transmitted to banks for approval.
The malware turned up in all Hannaford stores in New England and
The breach remains under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service and had not been previously disclosed "because of the confidential nature of the investigation".
After a long fight with the movie industry TorrentSpy shuts down.
In 2006 Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) accused TorrentSpy of encouraging movie piracy. In June last year a federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to provide information about its user, TorrentSpy tried to protect its users and blocked access from U.S and the judge decided that TorrentSpy intentionally destroyed evidence in the case. The company was fined earlier with $30.000 for ignoring the court orders and after another decision TorrentSpy is forced to pay damages to MPAA.
The judge ruled in the favor of MPAA because TorrentSpy destroyed evidence. Also MPAA ruined SuprNova.org and LokiTorrent, and currently IsoHunt is fighting with them.
In this new video “Hillary! Stop the attacks! Love, Obama Girl” Obama Girl shows more and asks Hillary Clinton to stop the attacks against her man.
“Hillary! Stop the attacks! Love, Obama Girl”
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See the other Obama Girl videos
Yahoo has redesigned the homepage, Yahoo moved the logo back to the center. And the shopping section has been removed from the homepage.
The old version from the Google Cache.
The new version.
Associated Press reported that Byron Ng, a
Byron Ng was able to pull private photos of Paris Hilton at the Emmy awards and of her brother Nicholas drinking a beer with friends. Associated Press verified the tip and looked at random people private profiles. They also clicked through a personal photo album of the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg that was posted in November 2005.
After being alerted Facebook has fixed the security hole, so until the next bug is found your pictures are safe.
Google will discuss Monday in a conference call about the unused TV spectrum band that are between broadcast channels known as white spaces.
Companies want to use this spectrum for Internet access; also FCC has successfully tested several prototypes that use the white space to transmit wireless communication signals from Koninklijke Philips Electronics, Adaptrum, Motorola, Philips and Microsoft. But TV broadcasters and Sprint Nextel a cell phone carrier are opposing to this technology saying that it will cause interference.
Until now Google hasn’t submitted any prototype only its own white space testing results in December.
The Google Translation API covers 13 languages, and it can translate blocks of text from web pages. Google has introduced this tool for translating blocks of text into multiple languages.
The Google Translation API uses
Google Ajax Search and Feeds team developed the API, it was created to provide a quicker translation and in the future there will added more capabilities.
The Moroccan computer engineer that was jailed for creating a Facebook account in the name of King Mohammed's brother has been freed after a royal pardon.
Fouad Mortada was sentenced to three year of jail and a $1,300 fine for imitating Prince Moulay Rachid without his consent.
Mortada said that he created the account because for fun and because he admires the prince, but he meant him no harm. He had appealed to the prince for clemency before being jailed.
