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I just stumble upon an interesting and frightening website in the same time. Its called felonspy.com and using it you can check the persons with a criminal record that live in your area. Even this sounds like pretty cool i think that to some point you might not want to know, just because you might get scared when you see the stats for your neighborhood. Lucky for me i don’t live in America so i cant check my area )

About Felon Spy

Who We Are

FelonSpy.com is a small group of dedicated community activists who are committed to making sure that you do not fall victim to any crime, not rape, murder, robbery or even petty theft. We help because we can and we care because we have all been victims of crimes ourselves, and by all that is holy by the grace of God, we’ll do everything we can to keep you safe.

We are former law enforcement officers, information technologists land developers and community leaders, all of whom have given up our posts in pursuit of this noble, sometimes misunderstood quest to label the underbelly of society by their actions.

The Technology

FelonSpy.com uses a broad array of databases, each completely legal when used individually. They are probably also legal when used together, but that answer hasn’t yet come to us. Our servers compare city, county, state and federal criminal databases with telephone records to pinpoint the location of the person you need to know is living next door to you.

In many cases the public telephone directory has incomplete or insufficient data, so about once a month we get updated address and number records directly from a number of telephone companies and credit reporting agencies (at tremendous cost to us, I should add). Don’t ask how we get most of our information, but we do it, and we get our top shelf info from sources who wish to remain anonymous, and we pay a lot of money to insure that we keep getting it.

The good news is that you can be safer in your home at night, even if just because you have better information, or because “somebody” takes the needed actions to get these people off the streets.

Who We Track

We track virtually everyone with a criminal record including sex offenders, ex-cons (felony and misdemeanor), and those guilty of some of the more serious traffic infractions. You have the right to know who your neighbors are. We hope to track persons accused of crimes but acquitted in the future, but at this time we do not have sufficient funding to expand our database that far.

Ask too many questions and who knows, we might be tracking you next.

For years now when ever you wanted to scouter the internet for some bit of information you headed right away to a search engine like google.com or yahoo.com or what ever rocks your boat. Well any of those search engines are… well lets say to much tech and simple. They show results in a scientific fashion on a simple interface. Some would argue that simple is better, and i would agree with them.

But if you want to spice up your searches you might be interesting in heading out for viewzi.com.

viewzi.com witch is still in beta state gives you a new view on search results, a more visual one, making the user experience more personal. Not only this but viewzi.com aggregates data from several locations and this can improve your search results, plus it can search in severals ways: web searches, picture searches, video searches and a few others that i will let you discover.

How is Viewzi Different?

It’s all about Views
We think there are better ways to present information than in a simple list. We start with specific topics or search terms and ask: “Is there a better way to present this data?” The result? Dozens of new, unique ‘views’, or ways to look at information, each custom-tailored for that content. It’s the right data, presented in the right way.

It’s Refined
Some views are more utilitarian and pull from broad sources like Google or Yahoo!, while others can be tailored for a specific topic like world news, celebrity gossip, or gadgets. This means your results are right for your search. No more sifting through millions of results.

It’s Smart
Our View Picker helps connect you with just the right Views. We do the work of finding the best places and sources and brings those together for you. One search bar for hundreds of sources. It’s like having thousands of search engines in one search bar.

It’s Fun
It’s just more fun to use Viewzi. So fun that we’ve been called, ‘The iPhone of search.” Each time you search for something you can try a different View. Our views are hand crafted by some of the best designers and experts across the globe, each one of them passionate about making search exciting and fun for you.

What is your thought on this new social search website ? Feel free to comment away.

Well i hope you enjoy it and i will leave you with a video review from Chris Pirillo.

If you are a geek like or you just like to talk a lot online or maybe you jsut like connecting with other people online, maybe people from around the world, well in all of those cases you are likely to have a whole bunch of accounts opened all over the place.

So i guess you have accounts on social networks like myspace or Hi5, or maybe facebook, but as much as you like communicating i bet you opened a twitter account. Well you might not have as much accounts as i do ( ) jk ) but i bet you find it difficult to update all your accounts, and keep them up to date. I have that same problem, it is really time consuming.

Well there is an answer to our prairies and it is called ping.fm.This is a new service that has been in beta for almost 6 months now .. from what i know and has been giving beta codes to register to a limited amount of people, and still is but i managed to get a key .
What it does is that is making your life easier by updating a bunch of services at once from one place … pretty cool huh ?.

And there are a few ways to update as well, beside from the actual website, you can use your IM accounts like AIM, YM, MSN or GTalk, an iPhone or iTouch application and even a regular WAP application.

At the time of this article they had support for :
Bebo, Blogger, Brightkite, Facebook, FriendFeed, hi5, Identi.ca, Jaiku, kwippy, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mashable, MySpace, Plaxo Pulse, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress.com.
I think that is a pretty impressive list, and i bet the it will grow in time.

And i have a good news for the ones that are interested .. i managed to get a beta code for you guys … so use pingadactyl to register … dont know how long it will be valid.

Cheers.

I dont know about you but i have a lot of times when i hear about a new song, or i just remember an old song and i want to listen to it. I dont want to go and buy it … i just want to listen to it once or twice maybe.

You could go to some stores and listen to some samples, but that really stinks. Or you could go on google or youtube and search it, but that usualy takes some time.

Well i found a solution that really does the trick for me. Its called GrooveShark Lite and its a music library that allows you to listen to music, full songs, in theyr flash web application.

For me this is not “lite” its pretty awesome, they have a verry large music colection, and i mean verry large, i was abble to find almost all i searched for with the small exceptions of some romanian songs, but even then i did not get the song i wanted, but the artist was there with some of his songs and that for romanian artists is something, trust me.

You can even register and save your own playlist, it loads pretty quiqly, overall i really recomend this site to anybody.

As a note you can use TinySong.com and type any song name you want and it will give you a link to that song on GrooveShark Lite, wich you can place on your website or maybe share it with some friends by email, IM or whatever.

hope you like it too,

Cheers

Thanks to a Chris Pirillo video i recently discoverd a new website that some of you could find interesting. This is Tinypaste. The ideea beside this site is to transform a big text you want to send to someone into a tiny URL.
This is similar to the tinyurl.com service just that is intended for text instead of URL’s.

The site is very simple to use, you just copy & paste your text into the textbox and pres submit and you get the URL. This should really come in handy when you have large bits of text from a document or a webpage that you want to send fast to a friend online.

Tinypaste also come with a Firefox Extension. Using the extension you can post the text from a webpage, by selecting it and click “Tinypaste selected text” from the right click menu and you will receive your link, pretty nit huh ?

Hope you find this interesting also,
Cheers.