Tech news for 18th of Jan

We have recently seen Google take on Facebook with their social network called Google+. It seems now that Microsoft is also in works to launch a new social network. According to Fusible.com, Microsoft was caught in act testing out their new social network. A teaser landing page was found on socl.com (which has now been removed). Here is a screen shot of the page before it was taken down. “With Tulalip you can Find what [...]

I have been on Twitter for a long time and it was just this morning when I discovered this little feature. I do not know when it came out, never ever have I heard someone mentioning it. In any case, here it is. It is a button that randomly jumps to someone you follow. It is located on the top right of the module. Please note that this button is not available on every page. [...]

Hacker crew of the SS Lulz is claiming responsibility for AlJahad.com’s temporay takedown. I repeat, The Islamist extremism site is down. The site has already been nuked by rival hacker The Jester in March, prompting Lulz Sec to boast of their coup: “ujelly?” It is good that lulzsec have finally taken a break from all the personal Sony havoc and finally started concentrating on something that really matters. [via Lulzsec]

A while ago Google launched a play-along doodle to mark the anniversary of electric guitar inventor Les Paul’s birth. The doodle allowed you to run your mouse cursor over the strings to hear authentic Les Paul strumming. It was one of the many Google Doodles that have been coming on since the burning man in 1998. Here is the link to access all the previous doodle in case you want to check them out. Versions [...]

You all know me, I do not usually do video blogs but recently one of my projects has got me heavily involved (Tech Video Pod casts). So far all the sites that I have given a go have been too professional to set up or complicated. Also they lacked mobile streaming, some thing that is really useful during Tech Shows. But for the past couple of days I have been giving this Live Video Broadcasting site a [...]

Intel’s Museum of Me creates a “visual archive of your social life.” All you need is to with your Facebook, and Intel’s site will download relevant Facebook data, in end creating a museum exhibit. It does take time to gather the data (took me 5 minutes) and in the end it gives out video tour of your “museum”. The video tour has music by Takagi Masakatsu and random people are standing around in the “museum,” [...]

What is Internet nowadays ? This Youtube video summarizes it pretty simple. Have a look and do not forget to credit the uplaoder.