Listing all those empty homes out there

Pleasrobme.com does a superb delightful job of listing messages from all of the shockingly naive facebook users that announce to the whole world they are leaving home, their whereabouts  and then even posts their home addresses!

(2 randomly picked users. there are TOO many!)

The website has been created as a wakeup call, but for some reason I think many will not adhere to the warnings…

Broadcasting to the world everything about yourself is NOT the wisest thing to do.  Yes, narcissistic behavior could have dire consequences.

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Google Alters Buzz to Tackle Privacy Flaws By MIGUEL HELFT Google moved quickly to contain a firestorm of criticism over Buzz, its new social network, taking the unusual step of announcing changes to the product over the weekend to address privacy problems.

Late Saturday, Todd Jackson, product manager for Gmail and Google Buzz, wrote in a blog post that Google had decided to alter one of the most vehemently criticized features in Buzz: the ready-made circle of friends that Buzz gives new users based on their most frequent e-mail and chat contacts. Now, instead of automatically connecting people, Buzz merely suggests to new users a group of people that they may want to follow or want to be followed by.

Google Alters Buzz to Tackle Privacy Flaws – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com

The Internet giant held a press conference at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters Tuesday to show off "Buzz," which incorporates social media tools such as photo and video sharing and status updates in Gmail. Google Buzz will also be accessible on mobile phones. And Google will launch Buzz for businesses.

Google vice president of product management Bradley Horowitz, vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra, and product manager Todd Jackson were on hand to show it off. The tagline for Google Buzz is "a Google approach to sharing."

The new service has five features, Jackson said. You will automatically follow the people you e-mail and chat with on a regular basis. You will be able to share content from around the Web, including YouTube videos, Flickr photos, site links and others. You will be able to share your thoughts in a public way and in a private way. You will get social updates in your inbox. And Google will help you find only the stuff that matters by recommending popular content. The mobile version of Buzz can figure out where you are and show you nearby buzz posts.

Google Buzz, which launches Tuesday, will also be accessible on mobile phones. And Google will eventually also debut a version of Buzz for businesses.

» Google Buzz

Toyota has decided to recall about 270,000 of its latest-generation Prius cars in Japan and the United States to fix a brake problem in the hybrid car, according to reports this morning. The Japanese carmaker will shortly file with the Japanese transport ministry and the US Department of Transportation for the recall, the Nikkei business newspaper reported.

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Respect is due to Jonathan Schwartz, chief executive of Sun Microsystems, who announced his resignation on Twitter with a haiku. "Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku," he tweeted earlier this morning, going on to apply the five/seven/five-syllable rule of the Japanese poem to his situation:

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Forty percent of the messages on Twitter are "pointless babble"

examples…

"I am eating a sandwich now in Broadbeach,"

“I Had a big night,”

“I just arrived at the Big Day Out”

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A HORRIFIED Twitter user tweeted the moment a tourist was killed in the jaws of a "gigantic shark" in a South African holiday spot.

Gregg Coppen watched as Lloyd Skinner was savaged in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday (local time) tweeting: "Holy _____ We just saw a gigantic shark eat what looked like a person in front of our house…"

He added: "That shark was huge. Like dinosaur huge."

"We were swimming only about 15m away from the guy. We were at about chest depth and he was a little deeper….I never want to experience this again. I’m going to block it out of my mind.”

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» Twitters Account – skabenga

Wide Cyber Attack Is Linked to China

Chinese Hackers possibly used Adobe Reader flaw…

Google said it is "reviewing the feasibility of our business operations in China" and may back out of China entirely and un-filter results! As it disclosed it had been hit with major cyberattacks it believes to have originated from China…

From the Google Blog: 

“ These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China. “  GoogleBlog

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James Cameron’s completely immersive spectacle "Avatar" may have been a little too real for some fans who say they have experienced depression and suicidal thoughts after seeing the film because they long to enjoy the beauty of the alien world Pandora.

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Google’s search engine returns common results to most queries as you type. But the "don’t be evil" company appears to be censoring its results when it comes to Islam.

» Full Story Fox News

If one is to go to google and type in islam is,

instant Results for islam is… shows nil

Type "Christianity is" into Google, and a plethora of instant results .

and you’ll get a list of common searches. But as above, google appears

to suppress results for "Islam is."..

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