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  Late last year it was revealed that Facebook was working on threaded comments. At that time it was just an experimental feature, though the social network did confirm its existence. It didn’t exactly say when threaded comments feature will be rolled out for its 1 billion plus users. This feature is actually quite useful as it would allow users to reply directly underneath someone’s comment making it easier for everyone to know who is talking to whom. Today Facebook rolled out threaded comments for Pages as well as popular public Profiles that have over 10,000 followers. We can consider this to be a soft roll out for this feature. Even though the feature is only available to them, Pages and popular Profiles will have to opt in for the feature, it won’t be active on its own. It is not known when Facebook will roll out threaded comments for all of its users. What your view on this, as a user, do you believe threaded comments are actually a necessity? Have you been unhappy with the current comments functionality and believe that threading is definitely required? [Image credit: Gizmodo]

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It’s undeniable one of the most popular premium cable channels to offer an online streaming video service is HBO with its HBO Go service. HBO Go allows you to not only watch recently aired shows, sometimes, being able to watch them online minutes after they’ve aired, but also catch up on complete seasons of older shows, movies and specials. Unfortunately, the only way to view HBO Go is if you’re an HBO subscriber, but that may soon change.

According to Reuters, chief executive at HBO Richard Plepler recently made some interesting comments regarding the evolution of the company’s HBO Go service at a recent premier for Game of Thrones’ third season. ”Right now we have the right model,” Plepler told Reuters. “Maybe HBO GO, with our broadband partners, could evolve.” This, of course, means the company has heard our cries for a streaming-only option for HBO Go as paying a full subscription to be able to use the service seems a little redundant. (more…)

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Everyone’s favorite micro-blogging social network, Twitter, is turning seven years old today as they originally launched back in 2006. The first official tweet was sent out by creator Jack Dorsey who sent out a message that could rival Neil Armstrong’s moon-landing quote by saying, “just setting up my twttr.”

Seven years later, Twitter has become quite the mainstream service as it has over 200 million users around the world with 400 million tweets being sent out on a daily basis. Regular people aren’t the only ones using Twitter on a regular basis as organizations ranging from the world of fashion, sports, politics and pop music has taken to Twitter to give everyone else a glimpse into their lives. All at the rate of 140 characters, which even though many users spoke out against the limit, Twitter stuck to their guns and kept the limit seven years later. (more…)

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With phones these days packing cameras, just about any pervert will be able to take upskirt photos of unsuspecting females without them knowing. A 22-year old model, Brittanie Weaver, got a taste of that being done to her and she was none too pleased about it.

According to the New York Daily News, Weaver popped into a pet store with her dog when this guy followed her around and under the pretense of petting her dog, he sneakily snagged some photos of her by using his iPad. Weaver was suspicious at first but was unable to confirm it, and it was finally when she was at the counter that she caught him and the CCTV footage (screenshot above) proved it.

However when she approached the police, they told her that they were unlikely able to track down the pervert, but luckily for Weaver she caught a glimpse of his ID badge, and from there she tracked him down via LinkedIn and identified him with “150 per cent” certainty. The police are expected to move in and charge the man for his offense. The use of social media to help identify criminals is starting to become commonplace these days, and it just goes to show that we are never, truly anonymous.

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Google announced late last year it would be broadening the horizons of its Google Fiber network. Unfortunately, it probably wouldn’t be in your neck of the woods, that is, unless you currently live in Kansas City or the additional five neighborhoods the company announced it would begin rolling out Google Fiber to this year.

Google announced the first neighborhood within the Kansas City area to receive an expansion of Google Fiber service is Olathe, Kansas as earlier this week, the Olathe City Council approved of the expansion. The Google Fiber expansion may be crawling at this point, but Google believes Olathe is a worthy addition as they believe the city fits the mold of locations that will take advantage of their service. (more…)

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