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Facebook Teen Who Blackmailed Students Sentenced to 15 Years
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You might remember Anthony Stancl, the Wisconsin teen who was arrested last year for blackmailing fellow students. Stancl posed as a girl on Facebook and convinced his male classmates to send him nude and compromising photos. Once he received the photos, he threatened to spread them online if the students didn’t perform sexual acts for him. Yesterday his trial finally came to an end when Stancl was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for felony charges, including repeated sexual assault on a child. Just goes to show that not every sexual predator online fits the stereotyped, dirty-old-man image. [From: New York Times]
Facebook Teen Who Blackmailed Students Sentenced to 15 Years originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Attempted Bomber's Story Comes to Light via Online Forum Posts
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The cover of the book that is Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has “terrorist” written nowhere on it. The clean-cut, boyish face and the soft, timid eyes in the photograph above would seem more at home on the neck of a college classmate or fellow commuter than it would the shoulders of an Al Qaeda operative and attempted airplane bomber. If there is such a thing as a “typical” terrorist (and it’s hard to say that there is), it would be difficult to peg the 23-year-old Nigerian as such. The trail he has left through social networking sites and online forums, and the very fact that such a trail exists, tells the story of a lonely, confused young man caught between the West and his native West Africa, his privileged raising and his spiritual ambitions, a peaceful faith and a violent devotion.
Thanks to the Global Terror Alert’s Evan Kohlmann and Wired, the world is able to peer into a younger Abdulmutallab’s heart via statements he posted to the forum at Gawaher.com, an Islamic community site, in 2005. All of the posts have been made available in a single .pdf document by Wired.
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Attempted Bomber’s Story Comes to Light via Online Forum Posts originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Backupify Backs Up your Online Data... Online
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Chances are you’ve given up traditional e-mail clients in favor of something like Gmail or Hotmail by now, but did you ever think about what happens when those services go away? Sure, Google’s great, but there’s no guarantee that it’s going to keep Gmail (and all your messages) online forever. If it up and disappears one day, you’re done for — unless you use Backupify (or other backup services).
Backupify is a site that lets you back up your entire online life, whether it be from Gmail, Flickr, Twitter, or even Google Docs. You sign up for its service and then link in all your accounts and, like magic, it sucks everything in and creates a copy. So, if Tumblr takes a tumble into the abyss of failed startups, or suddenly Zoho is no more, your data is safe. Well, probably safe.
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Backupify Backs Up your Online Data… Online originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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5-Secrets-to-Turbocharging-Your-Online-Business-with-a-Telesummit-Today
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A telesummit is a virtual online conference that offers a lineup of varied speakers over a period of time. The telesummit is usually organized by a theme or for a particular target market. The free "live" telesummit model is the one that I thinks offers the most possiblity for helping accelerate your business growth. Here are 5 secrets to turcharging your online business with a telesummit:
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Your Friends' Tweets Could Actually Be Ads
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As part of the latest trend in online advertising, ad companies are paying normal people to pimp companies or products to their online friends or followers. According to the New York Times, companies think that consumers will be more likely to trust the opinions of their Facebook friends than they are a faceless commercial — even if those “opinions” are formed with the promise of financial incentive. Ad agencies are willing to pay staggeringly high sums to not only celebrities, but to targeted civilian bloggers and tweeters, as well. One everyday guy interviewed for the article said he made $3,000 in October — just from clicking a button on behalf of an agency. Amazon.com has also announced that it’ll start paying customers who refer their friends to the site via Twitter.
The trend, not surprisingly, has been met with controversy. Technology blogger Robert Scoble told the Times that “[it] interferes with your relationship with your friends and your audience,” and claims that he unfriends people who send him ads. Joey Caroni, co-founder of the Peer2, a division of a major Hollywood ad agency, insists that he and his peers aren’t trying to “create an army of spammers” (although that’s sort of what it seems like to us).
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Your Friends’ Tweets Could Actually Be Ads originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Offline-Marketing-Ideas-for-Your-Online-Business
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A lot of us work hard to promote our online business but one thing we might forget is that we can get a lot of traffic by promoting offline as well. Following is a list of ideas you can use to promote your online business, offline.
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Chinese Flock to Virtual Apartments for Dating
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As any seasoned city-dweller knows, personal living space is valued at a premium. And as any warm-blooded human being knows, finding true love can present an even more harrowing task than locating a decent Manhattan sublet. Finding both? Crazy talk. The world’s most populous country is no exception to this universal struggle. With over 1.3 billion people, China and its urban centers are becoming increasingly crowded, complicating the already thorny search for love and stability. A new site for young Chinese singles, though, purports to make the search for domestic bliss a bit easier.iPartment, the latest teenage online craze in China, is a social networking, gaming, and online dating site where users create their own virtual apartment (with pets, gardens, and games) and then spend their time looking for someone else to share it with. The idea is pretty simple: use the appeal of online accessorizing and homemaking to attract a bunch of young, single girls to the site, convince the guys that if they want to have a chance with the ladies, they’d better join, too… and voilà.
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Chinese Flock to Virtual Apartments for Dating originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Finding Love With Twitter and Netflix
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Successfully navigating the seas of online dating can be a daunting and, some would argue, impossible feat. Sifting through profiles and trying to attach human qualities to otherwise cliched online personas is often arduous enough to deter even the most hardy romantics. A new approach to online matchmaking, featured at NYTimes.com, hopes to revolutionize the game. Started by divorced entrepreneur Steve Odom, Gelato transforms the online dating convention of carefully manicured, pre-meditated personal profiles into more “real-time” displays that build personalities based on an individual’s online activity (check out the “signing up” video after the break). Users create an initial profile by importing data from their Facebook or Twitter accounts. From there, they can then choose to “sync” their account to a variety of other sites, such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, last.fm, or different social networking sites. The Gelato account will then track the user’s activity on the selected Web sites, and make that information public. If you buy a book on Amazon, for example, or stream a certain TV show on Hulu, the activity will show up on your Gelato page, supplementing your basic information, and fleshing out otherwise static personal information. Gelato singles also have the option to search for potential partners based on shared interests or tastes.
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Finding Love With Twitter and Netflix originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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White Supremacist Held on $1 Million Bail for Facebook Threats
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On the list of stupidest all-time things to post online, a plot to commit mass murder ranks near the top. Yet 22-year-old James Gallagher, of Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, failed to see the flaw in his plan when, via his Facebook page, he announced his intention to shoot up the entirety of nearby Springfield Township.In August, the young man, clearly troubled on many levels, used his Facebook profile to post profanity laden messages threatening mass violence. Those messages were brought to the attention of local authorities, who then placed a detective on the case. The detective went undercover online and was able to gain access to Gallagher’s profile, which contained not only the threatening messages but several photos of him brandishing heavy firearms, including AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles.
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White Supremacist Held on $1 Million Bail for Facebook Threats originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments