Aug 28
Mark Zuckerberg has proclaimed that Facebook has officially reached 100 million users around the world.
“We hit a big milestone today — 100 million people around the world are now using Facebook. This is a really gratifying moment for us because it means a lot that you have decided that Facebook is a good, trusted place for you to share your lives with your friends” says Zuckerberg.
Now on to the next 100 Million…
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Aug 27
It would seem that Western Australia’s internet users are not the porno fiends we once were. Google has new search analysis tool which can report popular search terms in Australia and according to them Western Australians were more interested in ‘news’ than old fashioned internet pornography.
Google searches for “news” are most popular in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, while those for “shoes” usually come from Victoria and “the beatles” from South Australia.
The top Australian search terms so far this year are: “games”, “youtube”, “myspace”, “ebay”, “google”, “facebook”, “weather”, “hotmail”, “yahoo” and “real estate”.
Searches for “porn” are most popular in Queensland and New South Wales and least popular in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
Source: Porn not the most popular thing on the web
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Aug 27
EVER since the online auction site eBay sprung up ten years ago as a hub for selling just about everything imaginable, a handful of people have tried to sell votes, even though it is illegal.
“Over the years, every time there is a major election, we have had people attempt to put up a listing. We catch them very quickly,” said eBay spokeswoman Catherine England.
The “tradition” has continued this year, with at least a half dozen attempts so far to sell votes ahead of the 2008 US presidential election, offers that have all been removed from the system. At least one person has been charged with a crime - selling one’s vote is prohibited in by US federal and state laws.
Source: Users punished for selling votes on eBay
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Aug 27
A BRITISH data processing firm has launched an urgent review after a staff member sold a computer on eBay containing personal details of one million bank customers.
The computer was bought on the online auction site for £35 ($75) by Andrew Chapman, an IT manager from Oxford, in central England, who found the information on the computer’s hard drive.
It included bank account numbers, phone numbers, mothers’ maiden names and signatures of one million customers of American Express, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), The Independent reported.
Source: Millions of personal records bought on eBay
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