New York Attorney General to Sue Tagged.com

ew York’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, has charged that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million internet users worldwide – by sending emails that raided their private accounts. He plans to sue the social networking website for deceptive marketing and invasion of privacy.

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TweetCraft: A WoW In-Game Twitter Client

TweetCraft is an in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft and a Microsoft Coding4Fun Project. With it, you can send/receive Tweets, upload screenshots, and even AutoTweet in-game achievements!

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Iran’s “Twitter Revolution?”

The social network Twitter was asked by the US government to delay a planned outage in order to allow Twitter users in Iran to report on events taking place following the recent controversial election. Dubbed the “Twitter Revolution,” Iran’s government attempted a total media shutdown but cell phone owners have been able to send tweets [...]

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Runescape Is Number One Online Game: MySpace Top of The Websites

Habbo, which see more than 11 million unique users each month, today released its annual Global Habbo Youth Survey Brand Update. The study, says Habbo, explores teens’ connection and interests toward individual brands and highlights their preferences in categories including consumer electronics, music, sportswear, and games. On the game/virtual worlds front, Runescape maintained its number [...]

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Twitter Notes: Cliff Notes for Cliff Notes!

From the UK;s Daily Telegraph newpaper’s Matthew Moore:
“Great works of literature are being shortened into 140-character “tweets”, in the latest diversion to grow out of the popular Twitter website. Classics by Charles Dickens, JD Sallinger and Jane Austen are among the novels to have been boiled down to a sentence by bookish readers of the [...]

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UN Secretary-General Calls For Cyberspace Child Protection

In a press release on May 15th, the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon called for better protection of children in cyberspace.
“As they surf through cyberspace seeking information and entertainment and building social networks, they are also among the most vulnerable to exploitation. Without safeguards, their precious lives are at grave risk in the vicious world of [...]

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Secretary Clinton and the Virtual Student Foreign Services Initiative

Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) Internships, announced by Secretary Clinton at the 2009 New York University commencement speech, are part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of diplomatic engagement. The VSFS Internships will be developed over the [...]

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Playing Computer Games Enhances

European researchers have built a computerized play platform for elderly people. Field testing shows that the system keeps elderly players mentally sharp, stimulates socialisation, and can alert caregivers to developing problems.

The key “generic” objective of ElderGames project is to develop IST-based games using advanced visualisation and interaction interfaces with high preventive, [...]

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WWF Use Augmented Reality To Highlight Wildlife’s Fate

The WWF – that’s World Wildlife Federation and not the World Wrestling Federation – has opened up a new campaign aimed at getting China’s young people to be more aware of the fate of wild animals.
“We developed the world’s first mobile application where a virtual bear interacts with real environment, in real time. Through your [...]

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Google’s “Chrome” Browser To Air On TV Ads

Rather than rely on its internet presence as the world’s largest search engine to promote its new browser, Google is turning to TV promotion. The official Google blog for May 8th 2009 has the following:
“So today, we’re pleased to announce that we’re using Google TV Ads to run our Chrome ad on various television networks [...]

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