Google Latitude 1 Million Users In 1 Week

Google Latitude reportedly got one million users in it’s first week of launch.

According to an item published in FierceMobileContent,
"more than a million wireless subscribers had signed up for Google’s new mobile friend finder Latitude in its first week according to Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering."

Gundotra was a speaker on a panel at Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.
What Is Google Latitude?
From Google about Latitude:

See where your friends are on a map
With Google Latitude, you can:
See where your friends are and what they are up to
Quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call
Control what your location is and who gets to see it
Enjoy Google Latitude on your phone, PC, or both.

Who's More Dumb: Facebook or its Users?

Facebook quietly changed its terms of service agreement (TOS) recently. Bloggers freaked, triggering a public uproar that forced Facebook to revert back to the older version and come up with a better TOS agreement.

The Facebook TOS always said, essentially, that the good people at Facebook can do anything they want with pictures and other content you upload. Those goofy pictures you uploaded of you and your high school buddies? Yeah, Facebook owns those.

The old, re-posted version of Facebook's TOS had a thin thread of user control in the form of an explicit termination of the full license when you delete something. The now-revoked new version took that away.

Here's what they (temporarily) changed. First, they removed the following passage:
"You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content."

And they added this:

"The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service."
The changes implied that anything you upload to Facebook belongs to Facebook forever, even after you delete everything and cancel your account, if that were even possible.

The mea culpa for this debacle came from CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook posting, in which he makes the case that Facebook needs such rights in order to legally facilitate user content sharing.

For more: Read the whole article Who's More Dumb: Facebook or its Users?

Save Palestine through your own content

The attempts to erase the Palestinian history by Israelis and pro Israelis are not new or top secret. The killing and ethnic cleansing that has previously taken place in different areas in Palestine when Jews decided to build a country on the land of Palestine is a way... The political recognition of Israel and the ignorance of the fact that Palestine is over there is another way, in addition to redrawing maps to erase the existence of Palestine...

There are many other ways to support Israel against Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs. Unfortunately, we are not doing very well to protect our history, traditions, culture, rights and lands.... How many documents online do we have about forgotten villages and cities, real names and numbers and actual ownerships of lands? How many of them are in English? If any searcher wanted to find the real version of the story, can he/she find it anywhere? Why can't we have an online edition of the Palestinian encyclopedia (الموسوعة الفلسطينية)? Is there any kind of donations for documenting the history of Palestine or even what was lost in Iraq?

Let's try starting something, collecting content, publishing it online, bookmarking it and adding it to our social networking profiles.

Please help Palestine and Palestinians.
Please write about Palestine if you know and if you can.

Test Your Blog

While I was Checking a website called SEO by the sea, I went through an article that I liked called (Test Your Blog) by Bill Slawski So I thought of sharing it with you.

Test Your Blog

I’m in a testing mood tonight, and put together a list of tests that you can run your blog or web site through if you feel up to learning more about your pages…

1. See what grade level your blog is at with the Blog Readability Test.
2. Find out if the Gender Genie can predict the gender the your blog’s author.
3. Gauge how well the HTML or XHTML of your blog validates with the W3C Markup Validation Service.
4. Discover whether your site is available behind the Great Firewall of China.
5. Check out how accessible your website might be with the Wave Accessibility Tool.
6. Take a peek at how your site might appear on an iphone.
7. Explore your site to see if you have broken links.
8. Let Microsoft Adcenter determine how much commercial intent your site seems to have.
9. Make your site render in grayscale.
10. Get an estimate of how many visitors your site gets a day.
11. See how your site looks in different browsers.
12. Extract the Colors and their names from your site.
13. Catch people who might be plagiarizing your words on the Web.
14. Convert your site to text only to make it easier to read on a phone or other handheld device.
15. Translate your page into another language (I liked how mine looked in Traditional Chinese).