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FBI Adds Facebook, YouTube, Twitter Profiles

Mr. Dew — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:17:22 +0000

FBI Adds Facebook, YouTube, Twitter Profiles

The FBI is willing to do just about anything when it comes to tracking down bad guys. They did the widgets thing last year. And today they announced that they’ve “set up shop in several social media websites.”

They’ve now got profiles on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube profiles are highlighted. They even have billboards up in Second Life. But nothing is mentioned about MySpace. Except that you can add FBI widgets to “social media websites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Blogger.” (Source: Techcrunch)

More government agencies going social?

I’m getting bored of Facebook

Mr. Dew — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:46:20 +0000

I’m getting bored of Facebook too. I love the communication element there, but unfortunately some of the applications are annoying. Facebook changed a lot since it’s launch but not enough to make me excited.

Facebook Anthem

Even NTU Zi Char Uncle uses Facebook

Mr. Dew — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:56:35 +0000

I was browsing through Facebook and realized that the NTU Zi Char Uncle starts Facebook too.

Got Facebook group some more.

Nowadays more and more advanced already. And you thought Zi Char Uncle only know how to cook your sin chow mee hoon? Uncle now know social-networking okay?

Facebook consolidated all requests now

Mr. Dew — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:27:38 +0000

I love watching my requests grow longer and longer cos it just looks so dumb each time I log in.

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Seems like I can’t already.

Let’s watch my Facebook request grow longer

Mr. Dew — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:30:35 +0000

Let’s watch my Facebook request grow longer:

(Facebook requests are getting longer and longer. I wonder how long they would grow. Click to expand the picture.)

Now I have to scroll the bloody thing and my screen resolution is 1680 x 1050. Now I don’t ignore, just waiting for the list to grow, quite fun watching that somehow.

Picture: Facebook application invites start looking ridiculous

Mr. Dew — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:50:16 +0000

Look what’s happen to my Facebook homepage. It looks ridiculous now, so many application invites:

Hate the vampires, the pirates, the werewolves and the ninjas. Facebook is additive though.

Microsoft is in talks to buy Facebook stake

Mr. Dew — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:15:44 +0000

Microsoft is in talks to buy Facebook stake

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Facebook Inc. about making an investment in the social-networking startup that could value Facebook at $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter.

Microsoft’s approach to Facebook in recent weeks with proposals to invest in the fast-growing site is part of the software giant’s effort to catch up with the Internet rival Google. If successful, Microsoft’s talks with Facebook could give it an up-to-5% stake in the closely-held startup — a stake potentially valued at roughly $300 million to $500 million, the people familiar with those talks said.

The people familiar with the matter said that the discussions are still preliminary and Facebook could wind up not taking an investment from either Microsoft or Google. Factors in the discussions include the valuation the suitors would offer to Facebook and other business considerations they could contribute to sweeten any deal.

A Facebook spokeswoman and spokesmen for Microsoft and Google declined to comment.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Microsoft previously had an arrangement to serve advertisements at Facebook. Social Networking is kinda the in thing this year, isn’t it? Google has Orkut already, although the membership haven’t been exactly impressive. Somehow Facebook just have something special I guess.

Song about all the internet celebrities in YouTube and Myspace

Mr. Dew — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:25:38 +0000

A really well done and creative song highlighting all the people the internet has made famous. Includes all the break classics like the angry German kid, Gary the Numa Numa guy and so many more.

Internet People – Watch more free videos

I realized I recognize about 90% of the internet celebrities the song does patronage on! Oh no, I need to get a life. Seriously.

World leader in GunBound kidnapped; didn’t surrender his mobile

Mr. Dew — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:39:31 +0000

World leader in GunBound kidnapped and he is not surrenderring his user account. How strong willed. Maybe he knows the kidnappers are just a bunch of childish kids – which they are by the way.

Gang Kidnaps Gamer to Get Password Using Fake Orkut Date

An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000.

The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn’t say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.

According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.

The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal’s girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google’s online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.

But she never appeared.

Translated source via Gizmodo

Gunbound is a game that is somewhat like Worms 2 where you aim and shoot in a 2D environment at your enemies. It’s quite popular in Singapore back then but most people moved on to play games like MapleStory and others already. The game has Korean origins as do most online games. I used to played a little and I didn’t fare too well in it. I use the Mammoth I think… Or was it.

A little sick of social networking websites

Mr. Dew — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:46:15 +0000

Social networking websites are kinda driving me nuts by contantly sending me reminders that my friends have added me. I am displeased that my friends added me into those mailing list. It keeps sending me reminders to join those social networking websites like Multiply, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, Hi5 and others. (I refuse to link them.)

I know how it works roughly, once you register, you’re given an option to input your Hotmail username and password. Then made a promise not to do anything to your passwords asides to collect your friend’s email addresses. You log in and they collect your friend’s email and mass invite them to join the social network.

It’s kinda like spam if you think about it. My friends always seem to get tricked into doing that.

Before you guys submit your username and password, think about security a little okay? You’re actually giving someone your username and password to tell him or her to sign in and take all your friend’s emails. The process is just automated, but your password can remain with the website and the webmaster can eventually log in to your account.

It is unlikely that the webmaster would check your email account. But what if the website got hacked and their databases got accessed by others. It’s just not the safest to do. On a side note, I believe the Microsoft Windows Live ID team has something in plans to build APIs for retrieving user’s contacts without having to surrender your username and password to a third party website.

Please don’t get all your friends into this type of trouble. Think twice before surrendering your username and passwords.

myspace//photos

Mr. Dew — Sun, 14 May 2006 11:42:13 +0000

One of the favorite pastimes of national servicemen is to surf the internet. Not just any internet site, it’s MySpace, Friendster and a bunch of other social networking sites.

And they’ll look at the pictures are start ogling at them. Well, lots of time to waste in national service I guess. I am not interested in viewing the pictures. They’re just loading too slow already. You need a lot of patience to wait for those pictures to load. And the superiors just don’t like any one to view these pictures anyway.

MySpaceIsGay suggests what lies behind the beautiful camera angles.

The author is a little too extreme at times. But anyway, I have to agree with blurry photos. They are not as artistic as you think. The only time I can say a blurry photo is artistic is when the photographer blurs the certain portions of the pictures strategically with his lens. Or else, it’s not artistic at all!

While most of my friends view these photographs online at the expense of army’s time, nobody I know views it at home. They’ve all got better things to do. Er, like blogging.

collecting//addresses

Mr. Dew — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:59:40 +0000

What the fuck? Every time, I have to fill in a damn form. A web form. I recall my first web form is probably one at Hotmail.com. That is fine, really, it’s fine. I fill in the nice little form, I get something out of it – a pathetic 2 MB email. But really – it’s fine. At least I got something.

Today, I opened my Hotmail inbox, it’s now 250 MB. Thank you Microsoft, you have done something right finally. I see a bunch of spam! Not exactly spam. It’s people who are inviting me to Friendster accounts, myspace.com accounts, hi-5 account, some silly address book and many many many many many many many freaking many more.

I have to admit when I first heard of Friendster, I thought the idea was rather interesting. My friends invited me there. Then, my friends increase gradually. Now friendster says that I have 46 friends. That’s great because it means that I am popular. I recall MSN Zone saying something like – You have no friends – which totally destroy my day. I mean – I have no friends.

So every time people send me friendster invitations, I’ll accept it. Then people start sending myspace.com, hi-5 accounts. People ask me to tell them my birthday through some Birthday Alarm service. This is crazy. They could have just send me an email and I would most definately declare my birthday to be on October 24, 1985. And of course, I won’t forget to tell them that there is this DVD burner that I always wanted.

And today, the strangest thing popped into my mail! Some some updating address books service I think. My friends would send me an email. I click on the link and filled in my email address and home addresses. I don’t dare to reveal personal information to this strange company that I never heard before. Upon looking through their privacy policy, I realized that I “…agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize the Site’s content, layout, and services.”

But the thing that really made me thought “what the fuck?” is the fact that my friends are sending this email to collect my email? God damn it, compile your own address book!