Nokia 5800 XpressMusic now available in North America

White Plains, NY, USA – Nokia announced today that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now available in the United States. The latest in Nokia’s XpressMusic range, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers an affordable music device with a touch screen interface to the mass market.

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The ferrari guy from the Facebook Google Cash scam

The real identity of the guy with a Ferrari used in a Google Cash advert on Facebook has been revealed.

The Google Cash is a scam and the people behind it used a picture found on Google Images using the [me and my ferrari] key phrase. The results yielded on pole position a guy who is standing near a red Ferrari.

The caption of the image used in the scammers’ ads presents an arrogant man who got rich overnight:
“I’m the guy you see driving down the street in a bright red Ferrari with the top down, and you stop and think to yourself, ‘What a fool!’ And you know what? You’re probably right. But so what? Do you really think I value your opinion? I’m rich, I honestly could NOT care less.”

The picture in question was taken by a 25-year-old respectable man living in New York, Gary Marshall. He was interviewed by The Age and said “It was a joke photo and a joke caption”.

He uploaded the photo in his Picassa web album to share it with his sister who was overseas. He did not think that the picture will arrive on the public domain, he thought that the pictures will be kept private.

Facebook, even though it was informed that its advertisers drive the social network’s users in scam, did not take any action, thus 175 million users are still in danger of handling their credit card details into the scammers hand.

How to make companies to advertise on your website or blog

Question asked by lee:
I want companies to place their ads on my website for a fee, how do I do this?
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Democracy at Facebook

Facebook decided to let its users play a “meaningful role” in deciding the policies governing the service.
The decision is part of the social network mogul’s back-off strategy, as the policy changes from February, 2009 when Facebook silently changed its data-handling policies, revolted the vast majority of the users.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder reassured the social network’s users that not the service owns the users’ information stored on the servers, but the users themselves. It also stated that people will have the ability to opt-out from features like “beacons”, feeds which shares the shopping habits of the users with 3rd parties and will also have the ability to effectively vote whether they like a policy or not.

The step taken can be the beginning of an next-level relation between online corporations and their users.

Source – AP

Internet Explorer 8 – How to add WebSlices for Wordpress

Probably it’s just me, but I think the idea behind web slices are great. I feel the same as when RSS started to appear on the net: I get information way faster than the traditional way — going to the web site and see whether something has been updated–, RSS saves me a great deal of time.
WebSlices do the same but in a much more focused way. Take the following example: You release a book on Amazon for sale and want to see what others say about it in their reviews. What can you do? You do this: you open your browser, go to the page where the reviews are, scroll to the reviews and see what did change.

With WebSlices the above process looks like this: You subscribe to the webslice and when you want to see what happened on a specific page, you click a button which will face you with up to date information from that page. Like this:

The above example shows a WebSlice from Devoracles and it contains the titles of the latest posts. But it could show anything else as well; comments for a specific post, recent comments, list of the authors, list of the upcoming posts. Anything.

How to enable WebSlices on Wordpress

Enabling WebSlices basically on any website is extremely easy. So is on WordPress.
What you have to do is to surround what you want to display in the WebSlice in a, for example a DIV with a specific class name, hslice by name, and an ID of your choice.
Like this:

<div class="hslice" id="my_id">
I have content
</div>

You can also choose a title for what you want to display. Better said you have to provide it else the WebSlice won’t have a title. This can be achieved by putting another element in the above DIV, again, with a specific class name, entry-title.


<div class="hslice" id="my_id">
<span class=entry-title>I have title</span>
I have content
</div>


Where could you use this in Wordpress. The very first thing which popped in our mind was to display the most recent posts. To do this, you would insert something like this in your sidebar.php for example:

<div class=”hslice” id=”recent”>
<h2 class=”entry-title”>Recent Posts</h2>
<ul class=”entry-content”>
<?php wp_get_archives(’type=postbypost&limit=10′); ?>
</ul>
</div>
Should you want to learn more about WebSlices, here’s its documentation meant for developers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc196992(VS.85).aspx

Too bad Mozilla and Google doesn’t support it, hopefully they will because it’s a very cool addition.

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