Facebook Economy

Facebook Economy

Have you ever asked yourself: “What if Facebook were a country, and what if all the apps and fan pages where it’s individual states?” No, well, here’s what it would look like:

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Windows 7 SP1

Windows 7 SP1 Beta is out, provided are hotfile and torrent links and the changelog for the release.

Facebook Facts Infographic

Facebook Facts

Most internet users know that Facebook is the second most visited site online — according to Alexa, but did you know that it was originally bankrolled by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel? Or, that 70-percent of Facebook’s users live outside the US? If not, continue reading for those Facebook facts and more.

Remove Google Web History for better privacy

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Google’s web history tracks your usage data. It gives you a choice to delete certain searches, it also gives your mom, the police, and hackers an ability to explore this diary. Whether they use it for blackmail or prosecution, its not good for YOU.

Spindex Tech Preview

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Bay Area Tech Pros takes an exclusive inside look at Microsoft’s new social aggregator Spindex, with screenshot goodness.

Fight back spam with Gmail

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Here’s a short post for getting back at companies who insist on sending you junk and offer no options to unsubscribe, or force you to jump through inconvenient hoops. What you will need to do is find the corporate (optional: and personal) mailboxes of head people at the said company, The Consumerist runs a fairly [...]

Microsoft’s Translating Telephone

Microsoft has developed a translating-phone that combines speech recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech technology allowing two people of different languages to carry on a phone conversation.

Where the media’s profits go

Music and Piracy Infographic

Google search: redesigned

New Google Redesign

Google has rolled out a redesign of their search engine. BATP takes a look back to 2007 at the origins of this transition.

Windows Live Messenger to support Facebook

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As posted in the official Windows Live Blog, Live Messenger will adopt a philosophy of consolidated social networking: This includes comprehensive integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and a wide range of other sharing sites. Expect these changes to roll out by the end of 2010.