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An anonymous reader writes “Three teenagers in the UK have been sentenced for up to five years in jail for creating and operating Gh0stMarket.net, one of the world’s largest English-language internet crime forums. The Gh0stMarket website, which had about 8,000 members, was dubbed by the court as the ‘criminal equivalent of Facebook,’ or ‘Crimebook.'”
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Adding a personalized signature to your emails is not only aesthetically pleasing, it’s also useful for advertising and gaining followers. Email signatures allow you to passively offer your contact information, website and social profiles to anyone you communicate with via email.
A Canadian-based startup has developed a Twitter tool called TwitFooter that displays tweets in the footer of your email signatures.
Users can setup TwitFooter to post either random tweets, the latest tweets, or just the Twitter bio. It works by copying a code from TwitFooter into the place you normally edit your email signature. It works without having to install any software, all you need to do is authorize it on Twitter.
If you’re a blogger or content creator this tool could be useful because TwitFooter will post your latest articles (through tweets) within every email you create. It also features statistics that track inbound clicks from emails.
TwitFooter is a free tool that supports Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Outlook 2003 & 2007.
Continuing their series on world population, National Geographic focuses in on the “most typical” person in the world. The above image is an artist’s rendering of the average face computed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Zoom in and you’ll see that the face is made of 7,000 human figures, as shown below. It’s true. I counted.
The face is based on photos collected over ten years from several national technology research programs, however, it only seems to be Chinese faces. If that’s the case, then obviously it’s not really the “face of seven billion.” It’s also not the world’s most typical person. The video below has some similar weird logic.
Okay, wait. I got it. Think of it like this: by “typical” they’re referring to mode rather than mean or median. Still though, the feature is better labeled as the face of China. Oh forget it. It is what it is.
[National Geographic | Thanks, Maegan]
Here’s something to ponder: According to an 88-page report about the future of tablets by RBC analyst Mike Abramsky, only 0.3% of this planet’s inhabitants had tablets by the end of 2010. The other 99.7% didn’t seem to care about purchasing one of those gadgets.More »
