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Want to know what Bill Gates is thinking?

Yes after joining Twitter and Facebook Bill Gates has now launched a website to share his thoughts. On his website you see the sections What I'm thinking about, What I'm learning, Curious Classroom, My travels, Conversations and Infrequently asked questions. The website is filled with info on what Bill is on about these days. There is also a lot of learning to be had from the website. Where he does try to answer as best the problems of poverty and energy and what he things is the way these issues need to be addressed. He has also now got a lot of exposure in the field and is sharing all this with people who would like to know. All in all he sounds like a teacher and if your expecting to read anything personal forget it. This is all about Bill Gates and his charity work. An original post by Sociolatte

Staten Island man threatens suicide on Facebook and goes through with it.

Here is another sad ending Facebook story of a St. George man who hanged himself after posting on his wall his intentions. It seems he did not really give anyone time to react and when his friends started calling his cell phone there was no answer. 911 was also called and by the time they reached he had gone through with his threat. Found the below extract on silive and think they put everything down so clear into words I have pasted it below A St. George man hanged himself this afternoon, sources say, moments after posting his intentions on his public Facebook.com profile. William Rodriguez posted the following on the social networking site: "fdny wants to fire me. I didn't do what they said I did. met an old friend at bhs said they want my job I should have listened to her. When I take my meds I'm manic when I don't I'm severly depressed like I am now. I see planes crashing into buildings in my dreams and I wake up in cold sweats. I can't go on anymore. I ...

Four Real-Time search engines redefining Search

What is so special about Real-time search engines and how are the different from traditional search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Well real-time search engines are specialized and stick mostly to real time content. So as apposed to traditional search engines that will mix their data with real-time results. Real-time search engines can go much deeper. They can find you user comments from blogs, tweets, status updates and what not. They primary focus is to bring you the internet in real time and therefore are becoming popular to people who want to follow what's happening as it happens. Let's look at a few 1. Collecta . When you go to their home page they have a list of the most happening topics from around the web with links for you to go directly to that story. If you enter a search query they immediately look up your query in Stories as in blog posts, comments in blog posts, updates from Twitter, Jaiku, Identica. Photos from Twitpic, yfrog and Flickr. Videos from Yo...

Password hacking as easy as 123456

In December Rockyou.com was hacked and out of it cam a list of passwords of which the most popular was "123456" and "Password". These have been the ever popular passwords that have been used and it is strongly advised to stop. Imperva studied the breached passwords and has published an interesting study that talks about them. Of the 32 million passwords exposed , "123456" was the most commonly used, followed by "12345" and "123456789." The list of the 20 most commonly used passwords, and the number of accounts which used them, includes: "123456" in 290,731 accounts "12345" in 78,078 accounts "123456789" in 76,790 accounts "Password" in 61,958 accounts "iloveyou" in 51,622 accounts "princess" in 35,231 accounts "rockyou" in 22,588 accounts "1234567" in 21,726 accounts "12345678" in 20,553 accounts "abc123" in 17,542 accounts "Nic...

Video: Lion and Man Embrase, Kiss.

A court has declared that Polish citizen Leszek Bielenda can keep his 10-month-old cub, Simba, as a pet in his house in Glogow, Poland. Bielenda and Simba rejoiced. The video has attracted a lot of attention on YouTube and one user had this to say " he seems like a good man too bad he's gonna be lunch". Another said "next time that man is the news is when his body is crapped out from the lion". You watch the video and oh yeah add your comments. An original post by Sociolatte

'Pants on the Ground' Singer Larry Platt has been offered a Record Deal

Larry Platt the 62 year old who auditioned for American Idol and created a sensation with his song is now being offered a record deal by Jake Records. Larry's claim to fame is the song he sang at the American Idol auditions 'Pants on the Ground' which has become the first viral video of 2010. So if all goes well we will see him releasing his song officially. He did not get the golden ticket as he was above the age limit. His performance made Randy Jackson get up and dance it also made Simon Cowell say " "I have a horrible feeling that this song could be a hit." An original post by Sociolatte

Video: No Pants Subway Ride 2010

one according to one rider to create chaos and joy and to put a smile on a New Yorkers face. They also chose the coldest day of the year on purpose. This is their 9th year which had started by am impromptu group which started with seven would-be strippers. They had two teams in Queens, two teams in Brooklyn and another in Manhattan. They all took various subway lines and converged on Union Square to have a big pant less party to celebrate their success. An original post by Sociolatte