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Facebook Offers New Messaging Tool

PALO ALTO, Calif. — For more than two decades, e-mail has been the killer application of the Internet. But Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, believes that e-mail is antiquated. On Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg unveiled a new unified messaging system on Facebook that allows people to communicate with each other regardless of whether they are using e-mail, text messages or online chat services. “We don’t think a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. He said that e-mail is too formal, too slow and too cumbersome, especially for young people who have grown up communicating using online chat and text messaging systems. The new Facebook service, which will allow users to have @facebook.com e-mail addresses, intends to integrate the three forms of communication into one inbox that is accessible from PCs or mobile phones. ...

When A Twitter Post Can Land You In Court

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown suspected trouble was brewing when her teenage daughter grew testy on the evening of Nov. 10. As Alibhai-Brown recounted to the BBC: "She was incredibly distressed before she went to bed and said, 'Why do you have to be a journalist, mum? Every time you open the door I think somebody is going to shoot you.'" It was only after a family friend directed Alibhai-Brown to a post on Twitter that she understood her daughter's concern: someone in the Twittersphere seemed to want her dead. Earlier that morning Alibhai-Brown, 60, a columnist with London's Independent newspaper, had appeared on radio and questioned whether any British politician was morally qualified to comment on human-rights abuses, including the stoning of women. That prompted Gareth Compton, a Conservative city councilor in Birmingham, to post the following message on his Twitter account: "Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan't tell Amnesty if you don't. It would be a blessing, really." Speaking to reporters the following day, Alibhai-Brown compared those comments to "incitement to murder" and suggested they could be racially motivated, as she is a Muslim of Indian descent. Compton, 38, removed the message, posted an apology for his "ill-conceived attempt at humor" and defended himself by saying that Twitter was a forum for "glib comment." Police didn't get the joke: they arrested him for violating the Communications Act of 2003 on suspicion of sending an offensive or indecent message and released him on bail pending further investigation. The Conservative Party added to the chorus of hisses by suspending Compton until that investigation is complete. ...

Fans “Thank You” Video (via Mike Shinoda’s Blog)

Big shout out to all the fans who attended The Summit today (and yesterday), and to the amazing ...

My People’s Choice Awards

Here are the nominees of the People's Choice Awards 2011! My choices for the award are in bold writing! What do you think? Who should win an award? Any artists, movies etc. you miss? By the way, you can vote here! Favorite Movie Alice in Wonderland Inception Iron Man 2 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Toy Story 3 Favorite Movie Actor Johnny Depp Leonardo DiCaprio Robert Downey Jr. Robert Pattinson Taylor Lautner Favorite Movie Actress Angelina Jolie Jennifer Aniston Julia Roberts Katherine Heigl Kristen Stewart Favorite Action Movie ...

Human Rights Watch: Protect the human rights of people all over the world!

Human Rights Watch is an independent organisation that calls attention to violations of human ...

Future Linkin Park Album Art / Title Options (via Mike Shinoda’s Blog)

Mr. Shinoda was so kind to treat us with a good laugh again. Honestly if you don't know Mike ...

Five Books: Race and Slavery

I want to recommend the great website to you. Every day an eminent writer, thinker, commentator, ...

The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 goes to…

Here is some information about his life: LIU XIAOBO Professional Background Liu Xiaobo is a ...

Linkin Park News Update: Waiting for the End Video & First show in Argentina

             MTV has posted the video for Waiting For The End along with a brief ...

Science: Aiming to Learn as We Do, a Machine Teaches Itself

Since the start of the year, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University — supported by ...
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