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"Holy Two-Face, Batman!" : Real Batman denied a Facebook account!

March 5, 2009

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Holy Two-Face, Batman!" The real Batman was denied a Facebook account!

Batman's got more friends/fans than Superman and Aquaman combined. How could Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg do this?

Do you really want to mess with the Batman? Do you really want to mess with this... Do ya?

Ok, so it's not "the" Batman I'm thinking of. It's even better - it's a female Batman!

Posted in Internet, News, Social Networking, TMCnet

Twitter Finally Embraced + Twitter Bug

March 9, 2009

I begrudgingly joined Twitter in December last year, but after joining and playing around with it for awhile I stopped using Twitter. It seemed like its only purpose was to stroke one's own ego by collecting a vast army of "followers". Although rumors have it that I have an 'ego', I just didn't care that much to build up my own Twitter following nor did I care to "follow" other people. I'll leave my "stalking" of people for the real world, thank you very much!

Posted in Social Networking, TMCnet

SuperNews - Twouble with Twitters - Hilarious Video!

March 17, 2009

This is a hilarious spoof of twitter addicts! For you super tweeting twitter addicts -- and you know who you are - maybe not so much.

Via BoingBoing

Posted in Internet, Personal and Humor, Social Networking

Twitter slow today

March 19, 2009

Twitter has been super slow today, though not a full outage. My tweets and trying to follow people are taking forever. Lots of users are complaining as well.

Why oh why did I join twitter - it's absolutely killing my productivity... Oh yeah, that's why.

Feel free to check out my Twitter profile and follow me. http://twitter.com/tomkeating - just not today. If you click 'Follow' you'll wait and wait and sometimes even summon the fail whale.

Posted in Internet, News, Social Networking

Tweefind a new rank-based twitter search

April 6, 2009

Fellow VoIP blogger Luca has launched a new endeavor called Tweefind, which is a rank-based twitter search engine rather than a simply timeline search on keywords.

Luca explains:

How is the Tweerank calculated? Behind the scenes there is a sophisticated algorithm which analyzes how users use Twitter and calculates their rank accordingly. The rank is obtained taking into account a certain number of different parameters in a certain timeframe:

# followers

# following

# of tweets

# of RT he/she receives

# of replies

# of distinct users who reply

# of distinct users who retweet

# of RT he/she makes

# of links the user shares

much more...

Luca explains that a twitter user's ranking can change daily, depending on how much they use twitter, and other variables. It's an interesting model.

Posted in Mobile Phones, Social Networking, VoIP

eBuddy for iPhone Supports Push Notifications

July 1, 2009

Ok, so the just launched Skype 1.1 for iPhone doesn't support push notifications, but eBuddy, a brand new app for the iPhone or iPod touch does support push notifications. What does this mean? It means you can close eBuddy and still receive instant messages (IMs) from your buddies. Further, eBuddy is an IM aggregator supporting MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Gtalk, and Facebook.

Posted in Android, Apple, Internet, Mobile Phones, Skype, Social Networking, TMCnet, Wireless

Facebook Provides Alibi to Man Charged with Robbery

November 12, 2009

Who knew that a Facebook status update simply stating "Where's my pancakes" would provide an alibi for a man charged in a robbery. Rodney Bradford, a 19-year-old resident of the Farragut Houses, was arrested on robbery charges, but was let go when the district attorney subpoenaed Facebook and verified that the status update had actually been typed from a computer located in his dad's house in Harlem at the time of the robbery. When the IP address info and timestamp was confirmed, the charges were dropped.

Of course, now every criminal will simply ask their friends or spouse to logon as them and post stuff to Facebook, Twitter, etc. at the time they commit some crime.

Posted in News, Social Networking

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