6 posts tagged “web”

Update: Olivia has left Mobuzz. Gabe Mac will present in her stead.

Gabe Mac New Mobuzz Presenter

Mobuzz.tv Site
Mobuzz.tv YouTube Channel

Olivia Waters (Liv), a charming lass located in Madrid, Spain, hosts a brief daily TV show in English about tech stuff. Iria nos presenta la version Española, mais la derniere version en français est du septième d'avril.

I've only recently found it myself so I'll just say today's program is a good bit of fun, all about Twitter. Yo mismo lo encontré hace poco, así que solo digo que la programa de hoy es una diversión sobre Twitter.

Mobuzz TV: Daily Buzz is an irreverent and quirky daily show about the the latest and greatest in Cyber-Culture and Technology

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I must have missed the roll-out of this feature, so I may as well mention it here.

Google Maps has a new major mode: "More" (next to Street View and Traffic.)
Under "More" I now find "Photos" and "Wikipedia."

This shows that North Beach in San Francisco is perhaps overrepresented in photography, and underrepresented in Wikipedia.

The Google Maps plus Wikipedia feature may be defective or incomplete. For example, I find it very difficult to believe that Fog City Diner has a wikipedia entry while City Lights Bookstore does not. See for yourself, then weep for the forgotten poets.

Google Maps Wiki

Google Maps Photos

City Lights Google Maps

Google Maps does show a Wikipedia article on "Jack Kerouac Alley" but that does not address my point about City Lights Bookstore. City Lights does have a Wikipedia entry of course, but Google Maps fails to make the connection.

Thanks to Merlin Mann on Mac Break Weekly for the tip.

Added to the Urban Dictionary:

twitter squatter (n): a person holding on to a twitter username in hope of some personal gain.
"i'm in ur twitr waitin 4 u"

seen Tues. May 6 2008:

StephAgresta tweeted to @wolfblitzer
"check it out - what the heck. a twitter squatter dude. YOU SUCK!"

http://twitter.com/wolfbl itzer
"Hello. Please contact me if you're interested in having this Twitter account. twitterish@gmail.com" ;

Source: Richard Walker, 94133

Twitter Squatter

Twitter logo

I remember the God's Eyes and the Macramé tours de force. Crochet. Hook Rugs. Hippy-crafty!

This time, string art has cleverly disguised itself in an attempt to prolong its popularity among the "cool kids." 

Bad Seventies String Art

HippyCrafty Adsense

Nearly everyone has an Aunt Lidia in their world.

You may be the one that fixes her computer. You may be the one, heaven help you, to respond to vague "something was broken" since "you helped her last" complaints. You may find out that Uncle (Innis) Shutz fancies himself useful and has been poisoning the well shall we say. Lidia lets him get away with anything, so you may never find out that Shutz is the one that installed some time-saving "freeware" or typically goes to websites that helpfully claim Lidia's computer is infected, do you want to

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If offers like the above are accepted, or seem to come from nowhere, dear Aunt Lidia's email is most likely compromised; her credit card and other info possibly as well. Her machine may now be a zombie spambot.

Another gotcha: Don't ever "unsubscribe" from spam or email from questionable businesses. It could unsubscribe you from a single thing (or not) and then re-sell your information at a premium for having the properties "active-user valid-email verified-recently"