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Google trying to take privacy seriously
"This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary (the same on that affected CNET earlier last month) was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before December 31, 2005. There’s nothing Google could have done about...
Facebook Blocked in China
This doesn't bode well for 08.08.08 and beyond: just a few weeks after launching its service in China, Facebook has been blocked.As of 4:26pm EST, are any NowPublic members in China able to access it?"Danwei readers... Teen's MySpace porn photos investigated
Parent need to monitor their children everyday to prevent them from cyber crime..."VICTORIA Police and the FBI are investigating the posting of pornographic photographs of a 13-year-old Melbourne girl on MySpace. ...Social Entrepreneurship: Tobias Sturmer, Artistic Director for Empowerment Works
"As part of our commitment to highlight social entrepreneurship in Africa, the Cheetah Index brings you this interview with Tobias Sturmer-Artistic Director of Empowerment Works Music.Before going into the interview here is an excerpt from Empowerment Works that describes...Facebook Asks Users to Specify Gender
Facebook will soon ask its users to specify their gender as either male or female, so that the social networking site can more accurately reflect its members' status and profile updates to be grammatically correct....The Most Useful StumbleUpon Feature You May Not Have Known
"The way Stumbleupon works is quite different from any other social media site. Normally, every time you click the Stumble! button, you are presented with a web page on one of the topics you specified earlier....Summer strikes for unions
800,000 public sector workers, including school dinner ladies and council trash collectors, are going to stage a strike in the UK next month. The union, Unison, is just one of many that are threatening to stage a "summer of discontent" of strikes over the skyrocketing cost of...Nokia buys social networking site Plazes
" HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it has agreed to buy social networking start-up Plazes as part of its major push into offering Internet services. Plazes (http://www.plazes.com/) provides location-aware services that people... Number of new houses being built plummets nearly 60%
UK: Until mortgages become more affordable and available there will be less houses being built even with the Governments target of 2m new homes by 2016. Thousands of builders are being laid off as the housing slump starts to bite in earnest..."The number of new houses being... 14 killed as typhoon strikes Philippines
Every time I visit Nowpublic there appears to be another new natural disaster.Is this the result of Global Warming or are we just in the middle of a natural cycle?"Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen have left at least 14 people dead and forced the... MySpace Gets a Makeover, Do We Care?
In Canada, at least, despite rampant pokes and zombie attacks, Facebook has become the de facto must-join social network. But for much of the (western) world, MySpace still retains a stranglehold on the tween to... Why Flock is Better than Firefox
"You've probably been hearing a lot about the new release of Firefox 3.However, I would like to tell you about the story that isn't being told. It's a web browser known as Flock and it's changing the way we use...Disaboom Offers Jobs to Community Members to Tackle High Unemployment for Peo...
"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 67 percent of people with disabilities are unemployed, making them the largest unemployed population in America. To create employment opportunities for this population, Disaboom...Facebook Traffic Catches Up To MySpace
"A long-awaited milestone for Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg's social networking site finally caught up to News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace in worldwide unique visitors in April, when both sites attracted about 115 million... Indian inflation at 7-year high
Soaring to the highest level in seven years Inflation in India has become a big concern for ruling government. Indian government will be going for an election and it will find it very difficult to explain the rising...
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