Facebook

Virtual Protests Erupt In YoVille

YoVille, one of the largest virtual worlds on Facebook, recently experienced a relatively large protest against a major change yesterday which modified the way users can earn virtual currency. Previously, users entered a widget factory from where they could earn coins. While users can still earn coins there is a new process in which users must spend money to make money (as is typical in the real world). A number of users are furious and in the past few hours I’ve received numerous users frustrated with the change.

The position of the users was that less money was being generated…


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Internet

How to Profit with Domain Name Speculation

Domain Name speculation has become big business. According torecent study, the average domain name bought and sold by domainname speculators realized a profit. In addition, theaverage domain name was sold in . months.Domain name speculation involves finding domain names thatappear valuable, and waiting with the domain in hopes thatsomeone will want to purchase it in the future. With a greatdomain name like business.com, this can yield huge returns.Business.com was sold for over million!When domain name speculators buy a domain name, they generallyput up a page indicating that the domain is for sale. Thisbecomes a sort of free advertising, whereby someone…


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Software

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 1

The NET Framework 4 works side by side with the Framework version 3 5 SP1 Applications that are based on earlier versions of the Framework will continue to run on that version Just a subset of functionality is shared by all versions of the Framework Innovations in the Visual Basic and C languages for example statement lambdas implicit line continuations dynamic dispatch and named optional parameters The ADO NET Entity Framework which simplifies how developers program against relational databases by raising the level of abstraction has many new features These includes persistence ignorance and POCO support lazy loading test driven…

Facebook

Ashton Kutcher Surpasses 1 Million Fans On Facebook. Take That Twitter!

While the blogosphere buzzes about Ashton Kutcher’s race against the CNN Twitter account, Ashton has quietly surpassed one million fans on Facebook, surging up the leader board in a matter of days. The most impressive aspect of this milestone is that Ashton has grown from around 400,000 fans to over 1 million fans in under 3 days! It’s an impressive feat and it shows the viral nature of Facebook public profiles.

Does this mean that Ashton will stop tweeting and will shift to Facebook? I’m not quite sure but despite the entertainment aspect of this, I would say that this…

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