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 Q: What do you get when you post over four million spam messages on the walls of Facebook? A: How about a $100 fine for each message. Q: What do you get when you’re a scumbag profiting off of the humiliation and degradation of others. A: Adam Guerbuez . . . → Read More: Why I’m Happy That This Facebook Spammer Was Fined $1 Billion  Check out this week’s compilation of some interesting links that I wanted to share with you. Facebook Wants You To ‘Like’ More Stuff, Officially Launches ‘Page Browser’ Facebook takes a page out of the Netflix interface and creates a Page Browser to suggest Pages that may interest you. ******************** The Future of Facebook Credits Great article about the vision and potential . . . → Read More: I’ll Link To That  Quick Post: Looks like Facebook is doing their best twitter impersonation and is experiencing downtime for the 2nd time in as many days. No word yet on the cause of the problem or when it will be fixed. Update 3:04 CST: Facebook’s developer site is reporting latency issues: Current Status: API Latency Issues We are currently experiencing latency . . . → Read More: Facebook Down Again 
Many Facebook users were unable to access the site for a short time today after Facebook experienced issues with a third party networking provider. Mashable contacted Facebook and was told that they “are experiencing an issue with a third party networking provider that is causing problems for some people trying to connect to Facebook. We are in . . . → Read More: Facebook Temporarily Down Due to Networking Provider 
You ever see the episode where Wile E. Coyote took the Road Runner to court for not allowing himself to be caught. Wile E. Coyote would always change his capture methods but the Road Runner would simply adjust and be one step ahead of him. I imagine that Google has felt rather coyote’ish in it’s fight against . . . → Read More: Google Searches For Justice, Sues Illegal Prescription Drug Dealers  Social media has become a part of our daily lives so what would you do if Facebook, Twitter and instant messaging tools were no longer available? How would this change your life? One professor at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology in Pennsylvania is determined to find out. University Provost Eric Darr challenged his student to . . . → Read More: University Experiments, Bans Social Media For Week  YouTube made news today after announcing that they’re testing a live streaming platform. This isn’t their first venture into live broadcasting (previous broadcasts included U2, the Indian Premier League, the White House & E3) but this is the first time they’re testing live broadcasts with the public. The limited test will occur on 9/13/10 & 9/14/10. Broadcasters . . . → Read More: Live From YouTube, Its You  I’m such a geek. I laughed at this for about 10 minutes, then called my wife over to read it, but she didn’t find it as funny. What do you think? The image above is pretty big so I included the transcript below for anyone with a slow connection or mobile browser. [Reddit user WetHotAmerican]: What . . . → Read More: What’s The Big Deal About Burning A Crayon 
How do you make an already fast search engine even faster? Add “instant” results. Google Instant is a huge update to Google’s search engine capabilities that has added a search-before-you-type functionality. It attempts to predict your search query and provides “instant” search results while you type. How has this improved on their search capabilities? Google listed the following . . . → Read More: Google Instant Goes Live, Search Results Even Faster  I’m a huge fan of the videos that come out of TED. The good folks at MakeUseOf.com put together a nice collection of social media “TED talks” that basically cover our use of the Internet and how we can further utilize our online communities. Speaking of Social Media – I love to use the online bookmarking site . . . → Read More: The Best Social Media TED Talks |
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