"Friends Reunited has signed agreements with the Press Association and photographic archive company Francis Frith, which allows users access to 350,000 images which may be relevant to key moments in their lives."
Puts users in control of privacy.

Will it work?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-17446293

I knew they kept a lot of information but was a little surprised at just how much.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/07/the-austrian-thorn-in-facebooks-side/

Interesting piece from NPR where Clay Shirky thinks the time has come.

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/30/146093302/how-online-paywalls-are-changing-journalism

Try this. Type "church," "Old Testament" or even "friend" into Google, and the Web site of the LDS church, the Mormons, pops up near the top of the list.

In the age of the Internet, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has found a way to dominate what is arguably today's most important information source: the search engine.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mormons-using-the-web-to-control-their-own-image/2011/08/11/gIQA1J6BMJ_story.html
http://blog.compete.com/2011/09/16/the-seo-book-of-mormon/

Hat-tip - one of Aaron's tweets.

I was sitting at one of the pop-up venues (Pleasance courtyard) at the Edinburgh Festival on Friday night having one of my first evenings out for a couple of years.  Up to our table comes this bald guy handing out leaflets (at this time of year, the vast majority of the people in Edinburgh's centre become a storage place for leaflets being handed out).  I didn't take much notice, but thought I recognised the face and that's not unusual at Festival time either.  Anyway watching TV last night and Conair was on.  The face dinged - John Malkovich was handing out leafletting his own show.

Also on Friday night I saw Trudy Tyler (Sting's missus) and Simon Callow (4 Weddings +Funeral et al).

Nice to see a hollywood dude actually getting back to basics.

A friend registered a domain online and got this email in reply...

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Has anyone else seen this?

My 5 year-old has just finished primary 1 (Grade1).

Her reading is very good and she is navigating her websites fairly well.

I am beginning to think that she is ready for a netbook so that she doesn't keep bothering me.

Is anyone going through the same or has gone through the same?

Am I being a twat?

This afternoon this came out of stealth:

QuoteAt Blue Jeans Network, we've built a cloud-based video conferencing service that makes it easy to host high quality video meetings connecting many participants, using many different devices, supporting many combinations of video conferencing endpoints (e.g. Cisco, Lifesize, Polycom, Skype, Google Talk, etc.)

I am sure this will be handy for some people here.

bluejeans.com - 30 day free trial but no prices up yet that I can see.

Bought in July 2005 for US$580 million - sale nearing end today with low $30M price and buyer you never heard of

http://allthingsd.com/20110628/myspace-sale-process-drags-on-with-an-end-of-week-deal-goal/ - from Techmeme

Google Quietly Rolls Out www.WDYL.com

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/27/google-wdyl/

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110619_new_top_level_domains_are_approved_by_icann/

Now where can I find $185k to buy .apple

"Earlier this month, Apple applied to patent a system that could switch off a smartphone's camera if it senses the user is trying to record a live event."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13814378

Apple, it seems, are trying to become as controlling as Herr Hitler.

I am sure my comment will piss someone off - apologies in advance.  Surprisingly, back in the 90's I was an evangelist for Apple until they released a machine where the basic spec didn't even run the then current browser (Netscape 4 if I remember correctly).

http://pastebin.com/HZtH523f

Nice and funny!

Google have announced Instant pages. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/google-announces-instant-pages-instant-image-search-and-instant-availability-in-32-languages/

If you just want to look at the video which explains it is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jn93FDx9oI&feature=player_embedded

They preload the first result "if they think it is what you will click on" - they don't mention whether they will do that if it is a places result that comes first in the search.  I can see this having been useful in 1994 on the 14.4 modem.

I have just come across this colour laser printer for £118.80 with free next day delivery.  The killer is that it has Lexmark Extra High Yield Toner Cartridges (6K black, 4K colour) included.  Seems like a great deal to me.

http://www.printware.co.uk/Products/6bcabcb6-d019-11dd-bda5-000f206c8075/Lexmark-C544-Series/Range.html

Tesco mistake leads to beer rush
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13621315

http://pocketnow.com/android/asus-padfone-fully-exposed-images#disqus_thread

The biz and student monthly pricing looks great on the Chromebook $35/$20 especially with gmail, docs and calendar working offline by the summer.

However, it can't be your only machine.  To recover:

What you'll need

Before starting this process, you'll need the following:

A Windows, Mac, or Linux computer with administrative rights.
A 4 GB or larger USB flash drive that you don't mind clearing.
http://www.google.com/support/chromeos/bin/answer.py?answer=1046510

It definitely could be a tablet replacement!

Going on what Matt Cutts said on NPR (http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=135809341&m=135927563) I think I have found a great graphic G is looking for.

Got this from a HH

http://tbe.taleo.net/NA4/ats/careers/requisition.jsp;jsessionid=1D86B9468C17A36ED57AABA2C3C3B4B0.NA4_primary_jvm?org=WORLD&cws=1&rid=446

World Economic Forum are now searching for a Senior Software Engineer