"Google Street View captured images of thieves moments before they 
    mugged a 14 year old boy of his phone and cash in Groningen, NL."

That's nice, but couldn't criminals use Google Street View to look for people loading up their cars to take a vacation?

   I missed this yesterday. Yahoo! was incorporated on 3/1/1995. 
   Happy 15th Birthday to Yahoo!

   Happy 15th birthday, Apache HTTP Server!  112 million sites 
   later, you've come a long way from "a patchy" fork of NCSA.

The following was copied from HTTPd.Apache.org.

   "By the end of February [1995], eight core contributors 
    formed the foundation of the original Apache Group."

HTTPd.Apache.org::The Apache HTTP Server Project

   twitter: 600 tweets per second. facebook: 700 updates per 
   second. buzz: 55 post per second. the http://selnd.com/b9Zwys

SearchEngineLand.com::By The Numbers: Twitter Vs. Facebook Vs. Google Buzz

Facebook turned six years of age on 4 February 2010.

   "Over the last few months, we've been researching the 
    security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning https 
    on for everyone was the right thing to do."

Gmailblog.Blogspot.com::Default https access for Gmail

   "The Internet is stealing our attention. Unfortunately, 
    a lot of what it offers is merely good sugar-filled 
    carbonated sodas for our mind. We, or at least I, need 
    tools that will provide us with the Diet-Internet, the 
    version that gives us the intellectual caffeine that 
    lets us achieve what we aspire, but which doesn't turn 
    us into hyper-active intellectual junkies."

Edge.org::Is the Internet changing the way we think?

   "Why Twitter Will Endure (NYTimes) http://bit.ly/6bUK0S
   (via @GregMitch @carr2n)

David Carr (@carr2n on Twitter) via NYTimes.com...

   "The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool 
    Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been 
    open standards that become plumbing," said Steven Johnson, the 
    author and technology observer who wrote a seminal piece about 
    Twitter for Time last June. "Twitter is looking more and more 
    like plumbing, and plumbing is eternal."

Twitter will endure because is part of the Internet's plumbing? I hope so, but only time will tell.

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