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Our culture has twisted according to MTV and now twitter. Oh those soundbites and the words – the words…

A hacker made off with confidential Twitter documents after breaking into an employee’s e-mail account, the company’s co-founder confirmed July 16th 2009.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, stated that a hacker calling himself Hacker Croll broke into an administrative assistant’s e-mail account, then used that to collect information that let him access the employee’s Google Apps account.

“This attack had nothing to do with any vulnerability in Google Apps, which we continue to use,” he said in a blog entry yesterday. “This is more about Twitter being in enough of a spotlight that folks who work here can become targets.

What this break-in does reveal very clearly…

All of a sudden, social networks are becoming tools for doctors to talk to patients. But it’s not idle chatter—this may be part of the future of your health care…

The move is part of a wider push by the EU’s executive branch to ensure privacy is not abused by new technologies that electronically tag a consumer’s every step.

In times like these, extra cash is welcomed for many and blood plasma donations in Denver, Colorado make it fast & easy. The cash-in-hand immediately after the donation is considered tax-free…

The U.S. may be close to making it easier for application developers to tear into government data as early as next month on its new Web site, data.gov. Meanwhile, the Web 2.0 era of data openness will get a boost next week by the availability for download of campaign and lobbying data collected by a private group.

Recently I had a conversation with one of my friends about the importance of giving back. It started as a discussion on the economy, and the dismal way it seemed to be going…

A day of community service is a great way for you and other many hands to work together across the community to help lift each other up.

Even if you don’t have an official “Day of Community Service” in your area or in your church, you can still take the time to reach out and help someone in need. During these difficult economic times there is certainly more need.

Facebook’s 120 million users are being targeted by a virus designed to get hold of sensitive information like credit card details.

It can either wait for you to buy something online and just remember the details you type in on your keyboard.

“Otherwise it can search your computer for any cookies you might have from when you’ve bought something in the past, and take them from there.”

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Sascha at PCMag writes a charming little piece on the death of Usenet as a method of discourse and its eventual rebirth as a repository for porn, spam, and pirated warez. He recalls the days of “serious conversations” on 8-bit Atari architecture and the rise and fall of net.manners as more and more n00bs came on to mess up in-depth threads on symbolism in Bob Dylan’s Street Legal.

Is Usenet dead, as Sascha posits? I don’t think so. As long as there are folks who thing a command line is better than a mouse, the original text-only social network will live on. Sure, ISPs will shut down access out of mislaid kiddie porn fears but the real pros know where to go to get their angst-filled, nit-picking, obsessive fix.

In a way inconceivable in today’s Web-fragmented marketplace, Usenet was where you went to talk. Conceived back in the idealistic, non-profit days of the Internet, it was—well, it is, but it mostly was—a series of bulletin boards called “newsgroups” shared by thousands of computers, which traded new messages several times a day.

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Yahoo is making a number of changes to its default search experience tonight to add more structured data to results. Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey widgets are being added to search results automatically, eliminating the need for users to go into the search gallery and add them manually.

SearchMonkey is a key part of Yahoo’s attempts to embrace the semantic web and open standards in general.

With SearchMonkey, site owners create “applications” for Yahoo search that can be installed by users in the same sense that Facebook applications can be installed. Each application modifies results for a certain URL specification (for example, all reference pages on Wikipedia or product pages on Amazon). Modifications include both changes to the basic elements of a search result (the title and description) and additions such as an image, deep links, and key/value pairs.

Users can also add additional widgets via the Yahoo Search Gallery.

Here’s the Yelp search result example we used in our first post about SearchMonkey:

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