These pages want you to like something and share it on your Facebook profile in order to actually see them. And without hesitation you do that. But what is the use of Facebook Like or Share buttons? When you like or share something you are actually recommending them to your friends. So if something prompts you to share or like something before you actually see them, no matter what it is, its some sort of SCAM. So don’t ever do what they tell.

As far as watching those videos or pictures are concerned, just google it and most probably you will find ‘em. And the Anaconda video, it isn’t that shocking.

Pete Cashmore of Mashable in his column on CNN writes why Facebook will never implement the Dislike button. He feels it would damage the company’s relationships with brands, businesses and web publishers because a Disike button allows users to dislike their products thus affecting its reputation. Also web publishers won’t be desperate to implement a Dislike button and accept negative feedback from the users.

Yes, there are unofficial ways to ‘dislike’ things on Facebook. But what do you think, should Facebook officially implement the ‘Dislike’ Button ?

( Reading: Zuckerberg interview on ABC (video) , Cashmore’s article on CNN )

This is the search result with 2 spaces http://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=hello+++world&t=post.

Anyone knows why ?

Many said the QF day was a flop. But Tom Spring from PC World tells why it was a success. He thinks only because of the mass publicity that it received Zuckerberg finally went on to do some privacy reviews. He says from past experiences it’s clear that only these kinds of user movements can make a difference in case of Facbook and not corporate kindness.

The much awaited change is coming to Wikipedia. A new  look and feel and more importantly a new editing toolbar.

List of Changes

• Navigation: improved navigation for reading and editing pages. Now, the tabs at the top of each page more clearly define whether you are viewing the page or discussion page, and whether you are reading or editing a page.
• Editing toolbar improvements: reorganized editing toolbar to make it easier to use. Now, formatting pages is simpler and more intuitive.
• Link wizard: an easy-to-use tool to add links to other wiki pages as well as links to external sites.
• Search improvements:  improved search suggestions to get you to the page you are looking for more quickly.
• Other new features: a table wizard to make creating tables easier and a find and replace feature to simplify page editing.

In the FAQ section they say

When knowledgeable people cannot participate in editing Wikipedia because they find it too confusing or difficult to edit articles, it is a serious problem that undermines the potential quality, breadth and depth of the content that we can offer to you.

It also says this is just a beginning to the set of additional changes that are still under testing phase. You can see all those changes on the prototype site. The Wikipedia Usability Initiative is coming to MediaWiki as well. That means all those who were using MediaWiki for there Wikis can also create better wikis.

Government Requests is  a tool from Google that reveals what different governments across the Globe are asking them to reveal. These are categorized into two – Data Requests and Removal Requests. Data Requests include requests for information about Google users and products and Removal Requests include requests for removal of content from Google search results.

The data is based on the number of requests received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. Brazil tops the list with 3663 data requests and 291 removal requests. India is in 4th position in Data Requests with 1061 requests and 3rd in removal requests with 142 requests.

In the FAQ section it says – “We are working on a separate tool to show you when Google services have been blocked by governments or government agencies” .

You can view India’s profile on Open Net Initiative here.

While at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the Harvard servers to get the photos of all the girls in order to start Facemash, a sort of “hot-or-not” site exclusive to Harvard. That eventually led to the creation of Facebook.

This is the story of Mark Zuckerberg – ‘The Accidental Billionaire’ and soon its going to be a Hollywood blockbuster – ‘The Social Network’. From the director of ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ , David Fincher, the movie is expected to be released this October.

• This works with Mozilla Firefox only.
• Install Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox (if you haven’t)
• Install the remove Orkut ads script

Why Orkut is showing ads ?

The Official Orkut blog explains that in this post as

One of the great things about social networks is their ability to supply you with information that’s relevant to you….On the Orkut team, we believe that advertisements should be no different

So the Orkut team thinks that these ads may provide additional information relevant to you.

But that might not be the only reason. There were rumors that Google might be shutting down Orkut. Running Orkut is a very expensive task for Google and they might want to earn at least some part of the expenses through these ads.

In fact they have created a micro site for advertising on Orkut that says Orkut is the best way to reach Indians online.

1. Create a filter for emails from Twitter :

Go to Gmail Settings > Filters > Create a new filter

In the From text box use Twitter . Then just click Test search to find if that is really working and click Next Step >>

In the next window check the options Skip the inbox (Archive it) and Apply the label and create a new label from the drop down box. I used the label Twitter

NB: Checking the Skip the inbox option is important, otherwise you will see the email in both your actual inbox and new inbox

2. Using the Multiple inboxes feature

Multiple Inboxes is a Gmail labs feature so you have to enable that first. Goto Settings > Labs and find the Multiple Inboxes feature .enable it using the enable radio button and Save your changes.

You can add a number of inboxes. For adding  a new inbox for your Twitter emails use label:Twitter in the first text box. (since I used Twitter as the label name).

You can choose the number of emails to be shown and also the position of the new inbox.

That’s it now when ever you open your Gmail you see a multiple inboxes. Filters are a power feature of Gmail. You can used them along with some Gmail labs features such as Canned Responses to create amazing results. So  do experiment with them. You can use the same idea to manage your newsletter and rss subscriptions and lots more.

It’s your life and you should have the right to choose how to live. Why on Earth would someone want to control you unnecessarily as long as you don’t cause trouble for others.

Internet giants are doing no good. According to this blog post at Digital Inspiration companies like Yahoo, Google and Microsoft co-operate wholeheartedly with the Chinese government in implementing internet censorship there. Even Google shows a separate set of search results for China.

WordPress is different That would be the good news to all those WP fans including me. Matt said a big NO to the Communist government on blocking some topics in WordPress or giving out details about WordPress users. Big Kudos to Matt and WordPress.

Thank God the Communists are losing grounds in India and their anti media activities are limited to calling  the main stream media “a syndicate against the communists”.

Image: Xanga-TaiwanIndependent