Jul 31
Bad news for those of you who have been keeping your “legacy” Facebook profiles, it looks like you won’t be able to keep it for long. According to a report by TechCrunch who were informed by Facebook, every profile on the social network will changed to Timeline whether they like it or not. Facebook plans to complete this rollout by fall, so for those of you who’ve been putting it off or have been holding out – you might as well make the change now.
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Fresh from its 
While search engines have made it extremely efficient for us to find what we need on the internet, there are times when we just can’t uncover what we need. Instead of having to sift through tons of irrelevant results and promoted pages that make their way to the top – sometimes a recommendation from a friend is all we need. Well, as of today, Bing has made it easier for us to ask our friends when we’re performing a search.
The behemoth social network recently hosted its 
Back in 2010, a man named Paul Chambers was arrested by anti-terror police for posting a bomb threat on Twitter. The tweet that convicted him? “Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!” – this was back in January 2010 when he joked about the airport not reopening in time for him to travel to Northern Ireland to visit a friend.
If you’ve been trying to access Demonoid (one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers around) yesterday, you might have noticed that the error page we’ve all seen too often. However, this time it looks like it’s pretty serious. The folks over at TorrentFreak got in touch with Demonoid’s tech admin and it turns out that the reason for yesterday’s outage has been due to a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack that caused a series of problems. It is going to take a while to fix due to the complexity of the problems.
Facebook hosted its first earnings conference call today since the company went public earlier this year. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked the conference by discussing the company’s overall business plan and vision for the future. Zuckerberg emphasized the importance of building its mobile platform saying that it is one of the company’s top priorities right now. The young CEO also said that the social network is now working on ways to generate more revenue from mobile ads. 
Facebook today announced on its developer blog the introduction of a new feature: the recommendation bar. It is a new social plug-in that helps people find articles based on what their friends like and share from that site. In case you were wondering how it works – if you visit a page that uses the plug-in, you’ll see a small box on the bottom right corner of the screen. The box will allow you to Like the page you’re on as well as pull up a list. On the list, you’ll get suggested links based on what your friends have shared on that site before. I.e. if you’re on Ubergizmo (we don’t have the plug-in btw), you’ll get a list of other Ubergizmo articles that your friends have liked/shared before. A pretty simple and nifty feature if I might say so myself, though I can’t say how effective it is yet. At the moment, sites such as 