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England Riots: UK Considering Blocking Twitter and Blackberry

August 11, 2011 By

The prime minister of the UK has said that the government is pondering blocking certain social network websites and text messaging services during riots and public unrest like what occurred there recently.

It is thought that rioters and looters took to social sites like Facebook and Twitter as a way to organize their destructive behavior. Blackberry handsets were also used by many in the angry crowds to text messages to other, encouraging looting and rioting. The release of this information is not sitting well with many people in the UK and beyond as it has hints of what ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak did in Egypt before he was forced out of office. In particular, civil liberty groups are not pleased as most feel strongly that people have their rights to privacy.

PM Cameron is trying to take a tough stand following the four days of heavy rioting in England. Whether or not the government will follow through is anyone’s guess but if it is done in the future, it is sure to raise some eyebrows around the world. What do you think? Is blocking social networking sites during times of social upheaval justified or is it merely a clear example of “big brother” going a step too far? You be the judge.

 

 

 

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Hacker Group ‘Anonymous’ at it Again: Threatens to “Destroy” Facebook

August 11, 2011 By

The well-known hacking group which calls itself Anonymous announced recently that it is making preparations to destroy Facebook on November 5th. As with all announcements broadcast online by this group of unknown people, we will have to wait to see if this is a real message or simply an announcement made by one of the group’s members.

The threat is said to be directed at Facebook due to two recent cases wherein the social network site has been accused of wrongdoing. The first allegation comes from the ACLU, which does not like the privacy settings used on the site. The other allegation has to do with Facebook taking data and numbers from iPhone users.

The group says that it was them who hacked into Syria’s defense website earlier this week. At the end of 2010, Anonymous attempted but failed to take down Amazon.com. The reason Amazon was targeted was due to the fact that the online retail giant kicked WikiLeaks off its we hosting service. The group also has claimed responsibility for attacking and disrupting the websites of MasterCard, PayPal, Visa and oddly, the Church of Scientology.

If you had planned on becoming friends with Anonymous on Facebook, it is very likely that the group will not approve your friend request. If the date of November 5th does not ring a bell with you, it’s the day when Brits shot off fireworks in honour of Guy Fawkes, the man who had a need to blow up the House of Parliament. We’ll have to see what, if anything, occurs on the 5th of November as the group has made many threats in the past but did not act on them. Maybe the powers behind Facebook will try to make peace with the group by giving them a incredible fan page or something!

 

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TY Creative Utilises The FourSquare API

June 23, 2011 By

North west, web design company TY Creative have recently built a new section on their website “social profile“.
The new page displays a range of their social portals including FourSquare, Twitter and Facebook.
The unique section of the page is “Where have we been?” here displays a live list of recent places the business has checked into using foursquare, this means customers and followers interested in the business can check back at the website frequently to see what the business has been up to and where they have visited.
This bespoke and unique feature increases customer engagement and shows that social media is becoming a massive part of online marketing!
Foursquare is an online service & iphone app allowing users to “check in” to locations all around the world using the GPS signal on their phone. Along with a check-in a user can also write a personalized message which their friends & followers can see and comment on.
Its a very similar concept to facebooks “check-in” feature, however foursquare have added extra functionality allowing businesses all around the world to award users with prizes and special offers for checking into their area, enticing users to check in more frequently.

Filed Under: Business, Computing, Internet Technology, Social Media

Stop Foreclosure Methods For Loan Modification Scams

May 21, 2011 By

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The current economic slow-down and recession are perhaps creating more havoc than what is ‘visible’ to the eyes. In the US alone, during the year 2010, more than 1.5 million people have filed for bankruptcy and around 1 million home owners allowed foreclosure to happen. These figures are unprecedented in the American history.

The number of people who want to save their homes from foreclosure is increasing day after day. But, unfortunately, many of them are becoming victims of foreclosure fraud. Perhaps, the nefarious and avaricious people who are indulging in such frauds have been partially induced by the boom before the current recession. The modus operandi adopted by these people is to keep watching the foreclosure listings and take advantage of the precarious financial situation in which the affected home owners are placed. These ill-intentioned people pose as if they are capable of rescuing the home owners and if the home owners are gullible and vulnerable, they fall a prey to the sugar-coated, false promises of these evil elements.

According to Rick Haughton, a former Mortgage Banker and Sophisticated Investor, now Editor at Foreclosure Fraud Exposed, he suggests that due to challenging times, most home owners are not able to think in the right perspective and the fraudsters take advantage of this situation. “Such cases are alarmingly on the increase with loan modification scams,” said Haughton. You may be surprised to know that even celebrity foreclosure is happening. Some of the celebrities, whom you have been holding in high pedestal and whom you have been thinking are not capable of committing grave mistakes on their financial front, are also not insulated from the evil designs of the fraudsters. That may be the reason that some of these celebrities have taken a vow to take necessary measures to learn the home foreclosure process and fight to stop foreclosure fraud. Home owners must take utmost care to protect themselves from these evil-intentioned people and to avoid losing their homes and their money which will worsen their financial situation further.

Haughton explains, these fraudsters will not hesitate to make sky-high promises that they do not intend to fulfill because they will be targeting your home and money. “They will assure you that they can easily bring you out of your bad situation, modify your existing loans, stop foreclosure and save your home from it. When you start believing their words, they will ask for thousands of dollars in upfront fees. Since their activities will look as though they are closely working with your mortgage servicer, you will tend to believe them and pay thousands of dollars in advance money for their services. But, in reality, they may not be doing anything to save your home.”

Haughton points out that States such as Hawaii, California, Arizona, Nevada, Minnesota, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, Chicago, and Michigan, have been the hardest hit with foreclosure fraud and loan modification scams.  Additionally, “if loan modification companies ask for thousands of dollars in upfront payment for their fees, you can immediately construe that they are up with some tricks to take you for a royal ride. If you believe their false promises and sign on important documents inadvertently, you may end up losing your home. One trick widely used by fraudster companies and individuals is to ask the home owner to transfer their home to them so that they will save you from your foreclosure. Getting saved from a foreclosure is a workable task but it is not as easy as just forking over thousands of dollars and hoping someone will do all the work.”

“The loan modification process is a scam in and of itself,” states Haughton. “When a loan is securitized, it’s packed into what’s called an asset backed security and sold as a Real Estate Investment Mortgage Conduit (REMIC) to Wall Street. Hundreds and thousands of loans are placed into these great pools, tiers if you may, with different A-D ratings. It’s a pyramid basically.” Investors at the top get paid first, provided the home owners pay on time, and investors at the bottom have greater risk reward, and in cases of foreclosure, no one technically gets paid on the books. “The problem for the home owner is that once the loan is packaged into an asset backed security, the chain of title becomes null and void, because certificates are issued making the previous loan, now a stock,” explains Rick Haughton. Therefore a loan modification isn’t needed because there isn’t a loan anymore. The chain of title has been broken beyond repair.

It’s important for home owners to do some serious research regarding their personal loan situation  first, and then seek proper foreclosure help. In 9 out of 10 instances, most home owners aren’t even in foreclosure, and pretender lender banks along with these loan modification companies know this. It starts with investigating what’s really going on, and then structuring a plan of foreclosure defense. A home owner’s biggest challenge is where to go to conduct foreclosure fraud research on relevant information, to determine if they’re a victim or not. There are a few websites available online that provide step by step instruction, while the rest are nothing more than recycled news websites, which are a complete waste of time.

To learn more about the different types of Foreclosure Help, Foreclosure Defenses, and How To Stop Foreclosure Fraud Please Visit: http://foreclosurefraudexposed.com

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Rick Haughton has been instrumental in helping homeowners across America understand the foreclosure process, what their rights are, and how they can stop foreclosure and not fall victim to foreclosure fraud.

ForeclosureFraudExposed.com is the Internet’s leading foreclosure website, providing real foreclosure help to American homeowners, by educating them on foreclosure defense, how to stop foreclosure, protect their rights, find a securitized loan, and much more.

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Using Calling Cards to Call Abroad

April 29, 2011 By

If you are disappointed in what cell phone plans have to offer, then you should consider using calling cards instead! One of the best features calling cards have is the fact that you don’t need to pay a monthly fee. You practically choose how much you pay and when you pay. Usually, a cell phone calling card has at $20 on it. However, you can choose to get more dollars on it, to get more minutes to chat from it. Depending on what plan you choose for the calling card, you will have personalized benefits, to fit your daily phone call routine.

If you live in the United States and you have to make phone calls to Argentina either from a cell phone or from a landline, then you can always choose online calling cards. They will enable you to make phone calls to any Argentinean phone number for affordable prices. Depending on how much you want to talk on the phone, you can choose different plans. If you simply want to check on someone in Argentina, you won’t have to get plans that will charge you by three or five minutes, but cheap plans that charge you by the minute. Of course, the rounding depends on what company provides the calling cards and the calling card itself. It may also depend on the city you’re calling and also if you’re calling to a cellphone. Call Plus from PhoneCardsCentral will charge 1.9 cents to call a landline in Cordoba and the same calling card will charge 10.4 cents to call a cell phone. You simply need to select the card and the amount of dollars you want to have on it and order it online. You will receive the pin code in an e-mail and you will be able to use it either on a house phone or on a cell phone.

Start taking advantage of the really good offers that include online calling cards. You pay whenever you want and talk how much you want, keeping in touch with people abroad.

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Discover the New Social Network Site Wallpost – Where Memories Never End

April 27, 2011 By

As far as social networking goes, there is Facebook and well, there is Facebook. With over 500 million active users the world over, one may come to the rather obvious conclusion that Facebook offers users everything they could ever want or need to stay connected. However, as with every successful enterprise, there is always reason to look over your shoulder.

Introducing Wallpost, the new kid on the block in social networking. Launched in November 2010, Wallpost is a social network in which people can create photo albums and share them with everyone (or with whomever they please). Users can also post videos and update their statuses. Photos that are uploaded to Wallpost can also be embedded on the internet. While this is not new, ground-breaking stuff, there is something that Wallpost offers that Facebook does not.

As a member of the social networking website Wallpost, you are provided with statistical data regarding all of the activity that is happening with your profile. You can see who has viewed your photos and how often your profile is being visited. This is something fresh and new and a feature that many people enjoy having. Surely you have wondered on more than one occasion how often people view your Facebook profile and photos as well as who exactly is taking a peek. Well Wallpost tells you this and with exact numbers.

Wallpost is a free social network site to join and it offers a lot more than photo and video sharing. Wallpost is a platform for video chatting, photo sharing and instant messaging. For those users who love to write, Wallpost is ready to unleash their talents with its Articles section. Any aspiring or accomplished writer can post his/her articles on Wallpost to share with the world or with whomever they choose to give access to.

Wallpost users can tag photos, make comments and easily share all of their memories with family and friends. This social networking site even offers an Address book that can be accessed from anywhere, which is a nice feature as it makes it super easy to get in touch with friends, family and co-workers.

Another feature offered by Wallpost that really shines is its Social Ads. This is absolutely free to all users and it is a great way to gain some exposure for your or your new start-up. When you use Social Ads, even your friends can help you become known.

As far as social networks go, Wallpost is definitely something you should check out. It is different, it is very user-friendly and it could very well become the next ‘big thing’ in social networking. Considering the fact that social networking has only existed for about ten years, there is of course plenty of room for new networks. So if you haven’t yet joined a social network or if you are growing tired of the ones you are involved in, head on over to Wallpost, create an account and give it a spin. Who knows…you might enjoy the experience and find it a refreshing change of pace!

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Low on Cell Phone Minutes? Try a Calling Card!

April 22, 2011 By

Some people enjoy calling other people a lot. They might stay on the phone hours in a row! With a cell phone this might be a little harder to accomplish. You have tot take into consideration the fact that you might run out of minutes! When this will happen you might want to consider buying a calling card! Calling cards can be also bought online! You will have to pay for them and for the amount of money you have paid you will get an equivalent in calling minutes. This will allow you to call just about anybody until the minutes from the calling cars will run out. After this will happen you will have to buy another calling card! Here is some more information.

There are quite a lot of online calling cards from which you will be able to choose! Among them you will find the EnjoyPrepaid calling cards! These calling cards are really useful. The Emerald plan will charge you 1.5 cents per minute! However, you should know that this car is a prepaid one. So, if you will pay $20 for it you will get a maximum of 1333 minutes to talk away. If you will spend as much as $50 then you will get 3333 minutes! This will allow you to talk a lot until the minutes will run out! As soon as you run out of minutes you can choose to make a manual recharge or set up the Automatic Recharge feature and you’ll never run out of minutes.

Online calling cards are really useful today if you have a lot of talking to do on the phone! You will be able to pay some money for them and then you will get a lot of calling minutes! You just have to select the amount of money which you will be able to pay for an online calling card!

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Facebook Fans Lead Way The Way in Social Network Marketing

September 15, 2010 By

Surely you have heard by now that Facebook is the number one social networking site on the internet. Facebook now has over 500 million members the world over and that number continues to climb each day.  As a business owner, you can tap into this ever-growing group of people who use Facebook on a regular basis in order to create brand awareness, gain customers, keep in touch with current customers and to make sales.

Even if you already have a business page set up on Facebook, increasing your fans or ‘Likes’ on the site will create a solid base for you to market to. It is common knowledge that it is not the easiest task in the world to find more fans to ‘Like’ your page. Of course the most obvious way to get some fans is to invite your current friends, relatives and customers to become fans of your page. If you can get twenty people to each invite 100 of their friends and encourage those users to invite people they know, you will begin to see some growth. You can also use an incentive program such as a contest to help get people to join your page.

However, more and more business owners are now learning that it is much easier to buy Facebook fans. By buying fans from a company that specializes in selling Facebook fans you can add thousands of targeted Facebook fans to your fan page. Facebook fans are potential customers and the fans you buy are real, active Facebook users. Marketing on Facebook is far more effective than email marketing and has in fact, become the number one form of online marketing. But of course you will need to have thousands of Facebook fans in order to ensure that you succeed in your marketing endeavors.

You can purchase fans in packages from one of the many companies selling Facebook fans. You have your choice of buying either non-targeted or targeted fans. Non-targeted fans are less expensive to purchase compared to targeted fans as a non-targeted package will consist of fans from a random mix of countries or all from one country. The sex of the fans being directed to your page is also random as are the ages. On the other hand targeted fans can be sent to your page based on location, gender, age and/or industry. Regardless of which type of fans you choose to buy, a campaign will be set up and implemented so that you gradually gain fans over a period of several days or weeks.

The companies that sell Facebook fan packages have access to millions of users on Facebook and invite mass quantities of users to your page in order to provide you with the number of fans you want and need. If a users joins your page, he/she is showing an interest in your product, company or project which gives you a great marketing opportunity. Once you have the fans on your Facebook page, you are free to advertise to them in any way you see fit and on a regular basis. You can directly link to your website, photos, videos and other media. It is estimated that half of all Facebook users log onto the site at least once a day which gives you a huge opportunity to make a name for yourself.

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Is the Newest Trend in Online Dating Going to the Dogs

August 20, 2010 By

Surely you have noticed that most dog lovers you meet are friendly, warm and open. If you are a dog owner yourself, then you certainly know how much your four legged friend brings to your life.

Online dating is very popular and it is big business. Every day, millions of people around the world log onto their favorite dating sites to see if love is in the cards for them. There are all types of online dating services out there with each catering to a certain crowd. Well, the new trend in online dating is dog dating. What you say? Yes, now it is possible dog owners out there to find that special relationship they are looking for whether it is marriage, romance or friendship.

On doggie dating sites you can make that special connection by finding other members who match your criteria. Maybe you are interested in getting to know someone who shares your passion for a particular breed or perhaps you would like to find someone you can talk with regarding the loss of your family dog. Whatever the reason, these dating sites for pet owners are popular and are the perfect way for dog owners to find love. And who knows? Maybe you will find that perfect someone who shares your passion for dogs and the two of you will live happily ever after.

Getting to know someone is difficult for many of us. We sometimes do not know what to talk about in the beginning of a new relationship or we feel awkward and shy. But, if you have the love of dogs in common, you and your new love interest will have all sorts of things to discuss ranging from your preference in breeds, training tips and much more. When you stop to think about it for a moment, doggie dating is a really ingenious idea. Wonder how long it will be before we starting seeing other types of pet owners dating sites spring up on the web?

Filed Under: Computing, Social Media

Buy an iPhone 4 Before Sept. 30, 2010 and Get Free Bumper Case

August 17, 2010 By


Shortly after the release of the newest version of the iPhone earlier this summer, users were complaining to Apple and on tech blogs across the internet that their new phone was dropping calls. It was learned that when an area at the bottom left corner of the case was covered and pressed firmly that the reception was being lost. This area of the phone is where the antenna is located. What is now being called ‘Antennagate’ across the web was blown out of proportion (surprise) and does not seem to affect most phones. Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated at a press release that very few users were experiencing the problem, but conceded that Apple will ‘fix’ the problem by giving everyone who had bought the iPhone 4 a new bumper case that is worth around $30.

The design problem still exists and Jobs admits that, and it will be fixed on future models manufactured. In order to get the free bumper case you have to go into the App Store and find the iPhone 4 Case Program application and install it. Only owners of the iPhone 4 are eligible to get the new case and the application will check the both the serial number and IMEI of the phone to verify that you have the newest iPhone. Once it has been confirmed that you indeed own the new phone you can choose an iPhone 4 bumper case or another pre-approved case.

Anyone who purchases an iPhone 4 before September 30th qualifies for the new program. If you had purchased your phone before July 23rd, 2010 you have until August 22nd to apply. It is one case per customer and the cases are available in your choice of five different models. If you happened to purchase your iPhone 4 from AT&T in the U.S. you can return it to the store for a full refund if you wish.

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