TRUSTe - Make Privacy Your Choice

"Facebook moved into the top 20 trusted companies for the first time this year, signifying an increased trust in social networking as a mainstream communications tool."

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"This is a rewrite of a very old experiment. This rewrite uses unobtrusive DOM scripting and semantic markup to achieve its goals, and is somewhat less abusive of the CPU in Firefox. It also works in Safari - the original version was written prior to Safari supporting the CSS3 'opacity' property. Opera doesn't support opacity, so the images will just flip in that browser."

Award for Slickest App

Award for Slickest App: "This has to be the coolest application that I have seen yet. The TouchGraph application allows you to visualize your friends that are connected to at least one other person in your network besides yourself. Ultimately this ends up displaying your closest friends through an amazing interface. Zoom in and view the pictures of your friends, drag networks and people around, and see which friends are the most connected to your other friends."

Gene 'triggers unhealthy eating'

BBC NEWS | Health | Gene 'triggers unhealthy eating': "People who carry a gene variant linked to obesity eat an average of 100 extra calories per meal, research suggests.
The key variant of the FTO gene is thought to be carried by 63% of people."

Google tells us what we look for

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google tells us what we look for: "The most searched term for Google users in the UK was Facebook while the BBC came second and its iPlayer service was the fastest rising query.
The list also reveals what global preoccupations are and this year the US election candidates and the Beijing Olympics figure high."

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | IBM to build brain-like computers

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | IBM to build brain-like computers: "IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains.

Part of a field called 'cognitive computing', the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google unveils customised search

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google unveils customised search: "Google has unveiled a tool that will allow users to customise and refine their search queries.

The company's SearchWiki lets users re-order, remove or add specific web search results.

This means the next time they perform the same search, the personalised version will pop up."

Newsreader and RSS Aggregator - Todays News Delivered the Way You Want

Newsreader and RSS Aggregator - Todays News Delivered the Way You Want: "Stop weeding through web content, start reading what interests you.

Sprout is a revolutionary free piece of software that fetches the freshest news and entertainment content for you from thousands of sources online. Over time, Sprout will learn what you like, weed out what you don’t and surprise you at every turn. Your personal information needs are delivered straight to you in a downloadable, stand-alone application. Other newsreaders simply can’t compare."

What's Pando? | Pando

What's Pando? | Pando: "Pando is free P2P software that makes downloading, streaming and sharing large media files fast, easy and fun. Need to email large attachments, IM a folder, or publish your downloadable videos to the Web? Maybe you'd just like to watch full-screen HD Internet TV."

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Big Five Test Results

Extroversion (72%) high which suggests you are overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense too often of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity. Accommodation (58%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly kind natured, trusting, and helpful at the expense of your own individual development (martyr complex). Orderliness (58%) moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly organized, neat, structured and restrained at the expense too often of flexibility, variety, spontaneity, and fun. Emotional Stability (62%) moderately high which suggests you are relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic. Inquisitiveness (72%) high which suggests you are very intellectual, curious, imaginative but possibly not very practical.

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