| Death Threats, Theft & Twitter: 24 Hours On the Beat The Greater Manchester police force, one of the largest in the U.K., is about half way through an experiment in which the force is publishing everything they do for 24 hours on Twitter. The force, facing "unprecedented budget cuts", intends "to allow the public to see what officers at one of the largest UK forces face on a daily basis" with the... Continue Reading »    Awesome: Verizon iPad with Mi-Fi Coming October 28th What do you get when you combine the fastest launching consumer electronic device of all time with a choice in data providers and a low-cost cloud of sharable wifi everywhere you go? A whole lot of awesome, that's what. Verizon and Apple announced this morning that the iPad will be sold by Verizon starting October 28th and the offer will include... Continue Reading » Opera Mobile for Android On Its Way, Opera 11 Gets Extensions Browser maker Opera announced two major updates today: its upcoming desktop browser will finally include extensions, the add-ons that let users customize their browser with additional features, and a version of Opera will be designed just for Android handsets. Opera Mobile for Android The upcoming Opera Mobile for Android will offer two... Continue Reading » Skype Debuts Its Half, Now It's Facebook's Turn to Integrate We were excited last month to find out about the integration of Skype and Facebook. This morning, the feature is going live for all to see with the release of Skype 5.0. The latest version comes with some cleaned up design features, built-in Facebook integration and the group video chat we've watched develop in the beta releases. For Skype, it's... Continue Reading » CiviGuard Thinks Big With Emergency Communications Service CiviGuard is a new mobile-based solution for emergency communications. At heart it's an alerts and notification system, with messages distributed via text messages, an HTML5 web app, push notifications and social media services like Twitter. The product was developed by 3 students of Singularity University: Zubin Wadia, Shawna Pandya and Timothy... Continue Reading » Klout Now Measures Your Facebook Influence Although Klout describes itself as "the standard for influence," the startup has focused its measurements thus far on assessing people's Twitter influence. But today, Klout has added another measurement to the mix, giving users the ability to gauge their Facebook influence. As Ash Rust, Ranking Director at Klout, noted in the company's blog post... Continue Reading » Applying for U.S. Citizenship? Be Careful Who You "Friend" According to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the U.S. government is busily tracking social networks in a number of ways, including using sites like Facebook to monitor people who are applying for U.S. citizenship. According to a May 2008 memo by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, "Narcissistic tendencies in... Continue Reading » Monitoring Employees Online Behavior - When They're Not at Work Mike Elgan at Datamation writes about a social media monitoring company called Social Intelligence. Social Intelligence provides not only social media screening of potential candidates, which seems pretty common these days, but ongoing surveillance of employees. It continuously monitors employees social media behavior - including what they post... Continue Reading » More Payment Options for Facebook Credits as It Becomes a Global (Virtual) Currency You'll soon have 20 new ways to buy your Facebook Credits today, as Facebook has selected PlaySpan's Ultimate Pay as an additional payment provider. Before today, you could buy your virtual currency via PayPal, credit card or mobile phone, as well as earn Credits via certain games and apps. But the addition of UltimatePay will help power a... Continue Reading » Bing Gets More Social: Facebook and Microsoft Announce New Search Partnership Facebook and Bing just announced a new search partnership during a joint event at Microsoft's San Francisco offices. With this new partnership, Bing wants to take personalized search to the next level by tapping into the knowledge of your friends on Facebook. Microsoft looks at this as "the beginning of how search gets better because of your... Continue Reading » Excerpt From "Do More Faster" by David Cohen and Brad Feld Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup, the new book by David Cohen, founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld, managing director of Foundry Group, came out this week, and the authors are in the middle of a fast-paced tour around the U.S. The impetus behind the year-long book project, according to Cohen, was "to try to... Continue Reading » TweetDeck Arrives on Android Although TweetDeck is saying it's "been a crazy couple months," the wait is finally over and today the company is taking TweetDeck for Android out of beta and releasing it into the Android Market. TweetDeck for Android will handle more than Twitter, bringing the ability to post and receive updates from Facebook, Buzz and Foursquare as... Continue Reading » | 
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