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It looks like one of my favorite sites, the bookmarking utility Del.icio.us, is getting a new name and an entirely new Web site, built from the ground up. The new site will be called Delicious.com, but don’t worry. When it launches in the new location, it’s still going to have all your old bookmarks. For now, the new version is available only to invited users, but Mike Arrington of Techcrunch got a sneak peak and he’s broken down the new features:

• Navigation
  The navigation bar is now organized into Bookmarks, People, and Tags. The tags section features a new MyTags page where you can see all of your tags in an expanded cloud. On the bar, you can search bookmarks amongst your own, networks, everyone’s, or the set you’re currently looking at.
• Tag Bar
  The tag bar features tagging auto complete and sorting alphabetically, by date, and popularity.
• Bookmarks
  The bookmark summary can adjust the view detail, so you can either get more or less info with a single click. Also, the popularity of a bookmark can be determined quickly by the width and shade of the blue box around the save count. In addition to a complete history of everyone’s bookmarks for that web page, you can now see who in your network has saved the page.
• Side Bar
  The side bar lets you easily see a person’s list of top tags. You can also refine your view of bookmarks to specific categories as well. You can also give members in your network nicknames.
• Action Box
  Act now! The action box provides you with a list of commonly used actions for the current page.

Along with Gmail, Google Reader, and Facebook, Del.icio.us is easily a top-five web site for me. How do I use it?

• Three years of online research (legal and otherwise) is stored there.
• The Life Partners list in the right-hand column is automatically updated using Del.icio.us.
• I use the Del.icio.us Firefox add on instead of the built-in bookmark manager. Bookmarks are synced with any computer as long as the add on is also installed. See my review on my personal blog.
• I often look there first for items I can post on Life is a Thrill. The del.icio.us homepage is a kind of Zeitgeist for the Interweb. Hundreds of thousands of people use the site to bookmark their favorite pages. It’s not a bad idea to see what other people think is worth saving.
• I can share bookmarks with my pals. So far I’ve only got about a dozen friends on the site, but more of you should join. I’m mrshl.

Unless you want the site to spam your pals. I’ve received three invites from the new social network that’s built around Web games. I was wary of the first one I received, because the guy who sent it is not someone who normally invites people to anything. I’ve since received two more invites from some mutual friends of ours who must have signed up in response. Well, it turns out they didn’t sign up because the site is cool. Quechup spoofed their email addys and spammed all their pals!

At some point during Quechup’s registration process, the site uses your Gmail or Hotmail address to spam all your contacts with “invites” to Quechup.  A quick search reveals a lot of people going through the same crap.

Here’s a sample of the Quechcup angst:

During the signup process, Quechup.com suggests it search your address book to check if some of your email contacts have already signed up as well, so as to give the networking process a head start. We’ve seen this before with bonafide websites like LinkedIn or Facebook (which, incidentally, i do vouch for, since they have never sent me any spam nor sent mail on behalf of me without my consent - so far, that is). So call me gullible, I gave it my details and indeed, found a couple of people already on the site (amongst whom the woman who had invited me).

What the site doesn’t mention, however, is that each and every address in your address book is invited to join as well, as if you agreed to it.

I smelled fire when I received invites at some of my other email addresses, and quickly checked the mailbox I had used to sign up to Quechup.com. No less than 395 out-of-office replies awaited me there. By the next morning, I had received about 500 other replies, asking what this was all about, ridiculing me for being so stupid or actually spewing abuse for sending that email. I have since activated my own out-of-office assistant, with an apology in the message.

What is even more troubling, in my opinion, is that the site then goes on to search for any offline mail clients, such as Outlook or Outlook Express on your PC and suggest doing the same search with the address data it finds there. As I don’t use any offline clients, I didn’t use this “feature”. I can only shudder at the effect that would have, and what other havock sites like these can wreck in your email client.

I have deleted my own membership. If you or anyone receive an invitation to join, from me or anybody else, I advise you to delete the email. I am trying to find out if I have a legal case here.

I am deeply sorry for the harrassment and the inconvenience. My sincere and humble apologies. Now, go back and berate me…

I discovered this on my own, but Google Street View added Houston about two weeks ago. Looking at some of the pics, it looks like they used lower resolution pictures(you can’t zoom in far and still retain clarity). Maybe to the privacy concerns that cropped up in other cities? Most of the areas covered are on freeways or downtown. The picture quality on pretty much everything I’ve looked up is so terrible, it’s almost useless.

The damned Landmark Greenway 3 sign that I had to change many many times. Looks like somebody finally wised up and stopped putting the titles on the side that no traffic will see.

The River Oaks 3 theater. Man, just about every shot looks pretty terrible. I see the sun shining…did they forget to clean the lens?

Mashable points to a new social networking site for people into buying used undies:

MyPantyStore.com launches with ambitions of being the world’s largest used panties marketplace. This new adult social networking site lets users create a personal profile and list their panties and other personal items for sale. Buyers can browse listings of panties for sale as well as post private messages with sellers. The site uses a feedback system to ensure quality and help prevent fraud.

There are hundreds of websites offering used panties for sale, but mypantystore.com aims to make it easy for anyone to sell their panties and create a marketplace where panty buyers and sellers can make friends and interact.

The founders say “It’s like eBay meets MySpace only the focus is on used panties”.

I’ve been working on getting my crappy 100 MHz laptop in internet-ready shape and I just got the wireless card working. So what does my nerdy ass do with this newfound technology? Fire up NetStumbler and laugh at all of the goofy SSIDs I come across while wardriving home from work. Remember, all of these are from when I was passing through neighborhood areas.

We Rule
Porn0
thebacon
The Big Unit
PDiddy
rolwan
frodo
TV Airport
Mommy
SHELLFISH
5411jackwood
FirstDescent
Texanator
Cougars+Alaska-Norway
lil roc
Li’s Home Network
The Beacon
dtrozone
Dragon Roost
LiveFreeorDie
chemical
Yeboafrica
BuggerOff
Yoyodyne

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