Hacking the iPhone 1.1.1
Posted a mere 16 hours ago on GooTube is this video of devnull128 hacking his iPhone v 1.1.1. and then playing some hot NES action, among other things to prove it’s really hacked.
SPAM in Mahalo Possible?
I was browsing Mahalo on this sunny afternoon in an attempt to find information on credit cards (curiously I found nothing) and found what looks to be the first reported SPAM in Mahalo.
On the Jesus in Food page, constructed by Mahalo veteran Jonathan I found the following link:
GoldenPalace.com: Put your face on a grilled cheese WARNING: Pop-Ups
The subsequent website you are taken to when clicking the Golden Palace link has no content relating to Jesus in Food nor does it spawn pop ups in FF or IE6 (as Mahalo warned me it would).
What’s the deal? I thought the Mahalo approach was SPAM proof? Did Golden Palace put up content and then pull the ol’ bait and switch with the editors at Mahalo?
I registered with the site and reported it in the Message Board.
TripAdvisor Acquires Where I’ve Been; Are They Crazy?
Trip Advisor is reportedly paying $3,000,000 for a free application, that runs on another free application (at the pleasure of the latter app). Are they crazy or does this make business sense?
Hmmm, they now own the #1 and #2 apps in this category on Facebook and are displaying a new trend in tech spending.
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With 2.3 million users, 
Skype Outage Highlights Mahalo’s Faults?
No offense Allen but you’re just plain wrong here. Yes Mahalo doesn’t pick up “new” news as quickly as automated bots, again just like Alexa as long as you understand how the data is collected this shouldn’t be a surprise.
The important question here is; Will the Skype outage of Thursday August 16th 2007 really go down as a “newsworthy” topic? One that would warrant a complete page on Mahalo?
The answer is No, of course not, the story barely belongs in Google’s index as I’m sure it’s already been resolved and 99.99998% of the population didn’t even notice.
As far as Mahalo using social news site to promote original articles I don’t really take issue with that, Jason will just need to be careful not to focus too much on that sort of social baiting. As you can see from Digg, most social communities tend to boil down the the least common denominator as the audience exands.
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As nearly everyone online knows by now, Skype is out of commission. It’s down for the count. I was one of the first people to post about the 
Bebo Social Network Top in UK … For Now
I tend to think Steve isn’t going out on a limb much here in predicting that Facebook will overtake both MySpace and Bebo to take the UK Social Networking crown.
Bebo (design wise) looks very much like YouTube, and not knowing the history here I can’t comment as to why.
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