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Hey Zuckerberg, you’d better make way for Paul Ceglia. Who the hell is Paul Ceglia? Why, web designer / wood pellet distributor extraordinaire, of course. Apparently, Paul signed a contract in April 2003 to develop thefacebook.com, for which he would be paid $1000 and 50% share in the company, with an additional 1% share per day until the work was completed. All told, Paul Ceglia should (according to him) currently own 84% of Facebook. Yeah, Paul, and I should own 77% of Google. But I don’t. Because I didn’t design it. The fact that Ceglia is bringing this up seven years after the fact calls into question…

As if Facebook wasn’t surrounded by enough privacy concerns already, new facial recognition technology is being added to ease the task of tagging people in images. After its purchase of Divvyshot two months ago, Facebook is focusing more of photos and photo uploading. Apparently, more than 100 million photos are uploaded to the giant social service every day, and they see a potential to invade more people’s privacy on an even larger scale than previously. Divvyshot was a tiny photo startup which aimed to make sharing photos easier. After only a year in business, the service was snapped up by Facebook…

Lists are everywhere on the Internet and everyone seems to have an opinion about how the items are ranked therein or just all out disagree with the choices. Thankfully, Listiki has come up with a way for everyone to be happy while allowing everyone’s opinion to be addressed. Listiki is a new site just fresh into its beta stage. It offers users a place to make a list and have the option to post it on their Facebook or Twitter accounts. What Listiki excels at is giving everyone an opinion without having to worry about getting into a virtual fistfight in the comments section. This is achieved by the ability…

You’ve certainly been waiting for this, haven’t you? Back in the day (the 20th, to be exact), I, like so many intrepid newsmen before me, slapped up the poster for the upcoming Dave Fincher opus The Social Network, due out soonish, maybe, perhaps. Starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Z and apparently Justin Timberlake as Shawn Fanning, the picture will provide a Hollywood-filtered look at the origin of that-website-what-we-hated-last-month-but-everything-seems-to-be-cool-now. Anyway, most of us immediately scoffed and demanded a trailer. With that, behold a new teaser (below… duh)…

Who doesn’t want to compare their own Internet impact with their friend’s footprint? Your digital footprint will only be like a drop of rain in the Atlantic Ocean but at least you can say your own raindrop is larger than your friend’s. PeekYou, a search engine with a database recording footprints for over 250 million people on the net, has announced a new application called PeekScore. The new app will size everyone’s digital footprint and allow users to compare their footprints to the likes of Ashton Kutcher or Conan O’Brian. The PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10 that the search base assigns…

If you’re one of the millions who downloaded and used the notorious I Am T-Pain iPhone app then hit your upgrade buttons today, as you’ve got an upgrade you just might like. The latest version is wrapped up in lovely iOS4 improvements, but also offers a fab feature for the iPhone 4 — you can use that front-facing video camera to film yourself singing along to something or other while using the Auto-tune feature. Then, assuming friends, family or concerned neighbors haven’t made some kind of intervention to save you from future workplace embarrassment. You can even send those clips right…

The world of technology is unarguably one of the most exciting fields in the contemporary era. The breathless pace of change, the innovation, the competition – it’s all so exciting! But at the same time, the world of tech has bred some unfortunate side effects. Whether it’s the pace or the newness, something about technology gives rise to things that just aren’t acceptable or desired. I’m not talking about reduced attention span here, people. What I’m talking about is a kind of petulant, selfish, annoying behavior that we really need to stop. Here are five things that can occasionally make the…

Gear up for the white knuckle thrill ride of the holiday season that will speak to the soul of every man and every woman who’s ever been in love. Or something, I guess? Columbia Pictures has released the official poster and website for The Social Network, Hollywood’s version of the tale of everyone’s favourite ad-targeting service. The David Fincher (Fight Club) flick will feature Jesse Eisenberg, the ‘poor man’s Michael Cera’ (but with arguably more acting talent) as a young Mark Zuckerberg. It’s been rumoured that this film might even get some Oscar attention. For real? I mean, the Facebook…

If you have a pulse, you’re probably a member of Facebook. If you’re on Facebook and own an iPhone you’re not alone – almost 55 million users each month access Facebook on an iPhone. Big numbers, but if you’re one of those 55 million you know that Facebook for iPhone is an imperfect method of accessing the service, to say the least. Facebook is troublesome when accessing through a web browser, due to the conflicting nature of so many contradictory privacy settings, but on an iPhone those problems are magnified. Facebook is clearly struggling without Joe Hewitt, who quit as the principal iPhone developer…

The opportunity to overthrow the social networking powerhouse is now greater than ever. Just think, you (yes, you) could be the next Tom from MySpace or Mark Zuckerberg. Pretty cool, right? Definitely, but you’re not going to be the next face of social media without heeding to the advice of successful business moguls of years past. American automotive guru Henry Ford once said, “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” While these words of wisdom can still be applied over 60 years after his death, they have little to do with social networking. Let’s face it, Mr. Ford…