A number of high-profile web industry leaders have quit Facebook this week, a turn of events that’s sure to heat up conversation about the social network’s perceived transgressions. Tonight leading video podcaster Leo Laporte announced that he’s closed his Facebook account and made a financial donation in support of Diaspora, a project working to create an alternative social network outside of Facebook’s control. Laporte said he was convinced to make the move by a post written by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, in which Calacanis called Facebook a “monster” and called for users to throw their support behind OpenID and advocates of distributed social networking as open as the internet. Calacanis to date has not canceled his own Facebook account. ...

Twitter, the popular short message service has a serious flaw that can impact your feeds and timelines. If you tweet accept @k_avinash, you will automatically be added to that persons follow list. What exactly does this mean? It means that anyone can force themselves into your “follow” list without your approval. No longer do you have control over whom you will follow or who is posting information to your feeds. This works with both native and third party clients. If a spammer were to exploit this flaw, the results could be devastating to the Twitter service. A simple script could easily force a spammer’s message into thousands of feeds. A tactic such as this could render the service useless if it becomes overwhelmed with spam. Malicious users could also use it to DM spam users with links and tweets. Twitter has confirmed they are working on a fix for the issue. All users are currently displaying “0 followers” at present. ...

Some of these resolutions could be funny but Yes I really want to adhere.. wish I do not come home late and see mom waiting for my dinner wish I do not shout at her when I am in bad mood at work I’m now more than 3 years into job life. Wish I find a way to combine both kinds of work I love and at the same time likely take on more responsibility for family wish I learn cooking and help my mom at least on Sundays Some Quotes which I love the most: ...

I love that my Gmail account can connect to iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family, making the transition between applications seamless and easy. Google is now planning to bring this interconnectivity to Google Apps. Google says 9 of the top 20 requests from Apps customers are for their accounts to work with more services from Google. Currently, Apps works with Gmail, Docs, Chat, Groups, Video and Calendar. Later this year, Google will roll out functionality with Apps for Picasa, Google Reader, AdWords, News, Finance, and other products. Users won’t need to switch between their personal and work account to interact with these products from within the Apps interface. ...

Want to pay for purchases by waving your iPhone in front of a payment terminal at checkout? That will soon be a reality thanks to a new partnership between Visa Inc. and DeviceFidelity, who have teamed up to launch a mobile payment technology for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS devices. payWave for iPhone According to the release, the new Apple-certifed technology combines a protective iPhone case with a secure memory card that will host Visa’s contactless payment application, Visa payWave. ...

A famous blog has pointed out a shocking security flaw in Facebook that allows users to see the live chats. There is an option in privacy settings, under personal information and posts, that allows you to preview your profile as it would look to one of your Facebook friends. You are then able to select one of you friends and view it, literally, from their eyes. The feature works so well, that if your friend happens to be live chatting at the time, you will see their conversations in action. ...

Apple has just unveiled some statistics that suggest iPad is definitely the people favorite gadget. The Cupertinos have managed to sell more than 1 million iPad and that too in less than a month, in 28 days to be precise. iPad besides being larger in size to iPhone, has also proved to have a larger fan following since the iPhone reached the same landmark after 74 days of its launch. ...

Ok. A bunch of people that are my friends are getting this video posted on their walls, and it looks like porn or something. A lot of my friends have gotten it. Even I allowed it incidentally and it posted on many of my fr’s walls automatically. Its this lower half of a naked girl (nothing shown!) The application seems to be called “Optical Illusion [HQ]’ and if you click on one of the links it will send out the link to people on your friends list stating person’s name, this is without doubt the hottest video ever! :P :P :P and a link. ...

Today, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has taken time to write a post about why Apple doesn’t like Adobe Flash. And why Apple doesn’t support it in new products. And more importantly, why Apple won’t support it in new products. Full Article at http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Right after this post, Fake Steve posted following comments on this topic in his blog 1. We’re all about being open. The Mac with OS X is the most open environment ever. Except when it’s running Flash. Thus, goodbye Flash. ...

Can you search and find the ANY key on your keyboard? My friend was prompted by the computer to “Press ANY key to continue” and he could not locate the ANY key! Professional tech support can help you find ANY key In case you still did not get it, there is no ANY key on the computer keyboard. It basically means you can press any key on the keyboard – a,b,c,d,e, 4, F1, SPACE… and the computer program will continue. That’s it. Ha…Ha.. ...