Thief caught after stopping to check Facebook

A 19 year old Pennsylvanian man has been arrested after stopping to check his account on social networking website Facebook whilst burgling a house, and then forgetting to log out again. According to The Journal of West Virginia, Jonathan G. Parker, of Fort Loudoun, PA, is alleged to have stolen two diamond [...]

September 27th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Internet | 36 comments

Endangered Ugandan gorillas join Facebook, MySpace

Muhozi, an endangered Ugandan mountain gorilla, is appearing online as part of a fundraising program the Ugandan Wildlife Authority launched Saturday to help save the species.

Around 340 mountain gorillas — nearly half of the 740 remaining worldwide — live in Uganda’s lush Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park and 40 more live in another Ugandan reserve. [...]

September 27th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Internet | Leave a comment

Facebook buys FriendFeed: Big One?

Surprise! Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a Bay Area-based social-network feed aggregation start-up.

“Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends,” FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor said in a release. “We can’t wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations we’ve developed at FriendFeed to [...]

August 11th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Internet | Leave a comment