So long, and thanks for all the fish
All good things must come to an end, and today we say good-bye to Sync.
Facebookers have one week to vote to protect their right to vote
A scant few days remain for Facebook users to vote on a new privacy-eroding policy.
iTunes accidentally serves up porn in Russia on launch day
When you fire up iTunes to listen to a little music or make a purchase, you expect to see thumbnails of album covers and what’s hot. You’d never expect to see what some Russian users did when they installed iTunes for the first time.
Girl busted for robbery after stupidly posting YouTube boast
The writing was on the wall after a self-proclaimed “Chick Bank Robber” posted a video to YouTube with the description “I just stole a car and robbed a bank.”
Free app puts your face on the cover of magazines
More than one million people are faking out their friends with Faker$, a free app that lets you put yourself – or friends and family members – on the cover of famous magazines, newspapers, movie posters, and more.
.WTF? Government committee raises objections to new domain names
What do you do when the Internet runs out of good domain names? Set up some new top level domains — as long as they don’t offend.
Using Twitter to map racism
Researchers make a map that shows the U.S. states from which the most racist tweets originated following Obama’s re-election.
Is the internet making trust obsolete?
Is the wealth of information available online eliminating the need for people to trust one another?
Wibbitz: Create a broadcast-like video from your website
One of the innovative start-ups I visited while in Israel was a company that turns websites and articles into a 90-second video summary. Check it out.
Should suicide searches be blocked?
A UK MP wants internet providers to block suicide-related web searches.

