The Norwegian fur industry is continuously trying to present fur farming as unproblematic. During the summer of 2008 activists from Network for Animal Freedom traveled the country to see how the farm animals are actually treated. We inspected more than 100 randomly chosen fur farms in every county where such farms exist, covering over 20 percent of the fur farms in Norway. > - Activist, Network for Animal Freedom, 2008
4. Netvibes: France
netvibes_dec_08.jpgMembers have created more than 50 million start pages spread across 200 countries on Netvibes since its launch in 2006. Available in 76 languages, Netvibes was named one of Times Best Web Sites 2007; but this hasn't dampened the team's enthusiasm to make Netvibes bigger and better, as evidenced by the launch of Netvibes Ginger in April 2008.
Ginger is a social version of NetVibes that allows you to share your new content from Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, blogs, etc. with friends; it also lets you follow the digital life of your friends. In November, Netvibes added a feature that allows content to be shared via integration with Facebook Connect and Twitter.
that's exactly what i predicted last year, better in fact if FB becomes less ''static'', let's see how we will have full access to, how we 'll remix the tv contents.
- techcrunch always stands for audience with usual ''strong'' words and tittle, that seems (only) perfect for fastbookmarkers :) chrome worked normaly for me on FB, tested last week, it was a great exp at all.
Dear American:
This letter might come to you as a surprise since we have not known ourselves before.
My name is Henry Paulson, and I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. It is with belief and trust that I send you this obvious and sensitive business proposal to enable me and my colleagues remit the sum of USD$700 billion (Seven Hundred Billion United States Dollars Only) into your account. However, I would wish to receive your personal assurance that you would not sit on the money when it goes into your account. More importantly, you keep confidential this transaction, in order not to tarnish the confidence repose in the officials involved in this transaction.
My country has had a crisis that has caused the immediate need for large transfer of funds of 700 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
via d o t - c o m a (italy)
For those interested in sociological patterns within Facebook, Professor Jason Hoffman over at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has been running some tests on the same group of students over the last 4 years (about as longitudinal of a study as you’re going to get on Facebook at this point, given that the site is just over 4 years old) and has posted a video of his presentation here.