del.icio.us links for August 28, 2007

Archive of del.icio.us links

1. Ian’s Shoelace Site – Introduction – Shoe-Lacing.Com

   Lacing Shoes – Are all of your shoes, sneakers and boots still laced up the way they were when you bought them? Why not take the plunge? Whip out those laces and re-do them to suit your needs or personality. How do you lace yours?

2. Facebook work ban – Mirror.Co.UK

   A source said: “The hours we were losing to people using Facebook were getting ludicrous.” Now even the 84 elected councillors cannot use the authority’s network to access the site, also banned by the Met police and Transport for London.

3. Bebo.com becomes the most visited social networking site in the UK – PublicTechnology.Net

   UK property Bebo.com became the most visited social networking site from within the UK in July, attracting 10.6 million unique visitors. The fastest growing social networking was Facebook.com, which grew 366 percent since the start of the year.

4. UK web use hits all-time high in July – TimesOnline.Typepad.Com

   The number of Britons online reached its highest ever level in July with 31.8 million unique visitors flocking to the net. The summer season usually sees a lull in net usage. Not so in 2007, the year summer never arrived.

5. All of MP3 prepares to play it again, Samantha – TheInquirer.Net

   America said Russia couldn’t accede to the WTO without ditching the site. The Russians pulled it down – only to find that since they hadn’t actually acceded to the WTO yet, their copyright laws still meant that the site was legal, and a judge ruled as suc

6. Apple faces new class-action suit over locked iPhones – AppleInsider.Com

   Kliegerman is asking the Court to award a judgement barring Apple from selling locked iPhones, requiring Apple to provide unlock codes to all iPhone owners and disclose the fees charged for using the data features while traveling internationally.

11 more articles after the Jump

1. Password entry – what are you looking at? – HeiseSecurity-Co.UK

   Customers could in future no longer type their PIN number or password, but instead simply look at the characters or numbers on a screen. This would make shoulder surfing impossible and also stop PIN number theft using manipulated keypads on ATMs.

2. ‘Naked rowers’ set new record – TheSun.CO.UK

   Niall McCann, 25 and James Burge, 26, rowed non-stop for 67 hours, 24 minutes and 14 seconds to shave more than five hours off the previous time. The duo set the new record on a rowing machine specially set up near the Gorilla enclosure at Bristol Zoo garden.

3. WGA meltdown makes ‘pirates’ of Vista, XP owners – InfoWorld.Com

   Others called on Microsoft to ditch WGA. “Once again the legitimate person gets screwed while the people who pirate software probably aren’t even affected,” said Mark in the support forum. “This whole validation process should be dropped.

4. $100,000 offered to freely release iPhone unlocking software – Engadget.Com

   Anyone can launch a Blogspot site announcing pretty much anything they’d like. If nothing else, the move illustrates perfectly the demand for the software unlock to be released for general consumption.

5. Flight of the honeybees – Money.CNN.Com

   Missing bees are back in the news again – “The mysterious disappearance of millions of bees is fueling fears of an agricultural disaster”

6. Physics professor’s course corrects movie mayhem – East Volusia – NewsJournalOnline.Com

   Bob Jones, an associate professor of film at UCF, responded to Efthimiou’s concerns in a short e-mail: “These are fiction films. Not documentaries. Tell these guys to get a life.” But Efthimiou believes filmmakers contribute to a culture that fears scienc

7. Spammers use YouTube to spread Storm worm: News – ZDNet.Com.AU

   Using typical social engineering techniques, an e-mail containing a link to the fake YouTube site is distributed as spam, with the message: “Man you have got to tell me where you picked her up. I saw this on the web. It has to be you. Check it out yoursel

8. YouTube In The Spotlight For Hosting Racist Material – TechCrunch.Com

   A German parliamentarian quoted said that YouTube hosting these films “amounts to aiding and abetting incitement of these people.” The display of Nazi imagery or logos, or supporting Nazi ideals is illegal in Germany and punishable by jail time and fi

9. Videohybrid 3.0: I Can’t Believe This Hasn’t Been Banned Yet – TechCrunch.Com

   Videohybrid 3.0 marries Q&A functionality with social voting. Users are now able to submit movies, and TV shows they are looking for online, other users who would like to see that video as well vote for the request. Digg style the top requests rise to the

10. Digg Gets A Major Makeover – TechCrunch.Com

    Drop down menus have replaced the previous tree style content directory at the top of the page, and the overall look feels a little more feminine; the strong colors used in the old Digg template have been replaced by lighter, nearly pastel colors at place

11. Facebook Takes Further Steps To Curb User Abuse; Change In How Applications Are Measured – TechCrunch.Com

    It is now impossible for applications to hide things from profile owners. Applications were showing ads to friends without the owner knowing. Facebook has limited invitations sent to friends, and have stopped applications from sending emails to users who�