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April 2008
- Post to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter In One Shot
  
  MIT Technology Review | Apr 9, 08 8:15 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Several new services join personal Internet feeds into a single space, meaning you don’t have to re-post the same new information to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The CEO of Seesmic, a video-conversation service, says it’s frustrating to pick through 10 different social networks—and his company has just bought Twhirl, which allows users to post on three different feeds at once, Technology Review reports. More »
- How a Facebook Post Derailed a Football Player's Life
  
  Washington Post | Apr 9, 08 9:01 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - For about 90 minutes, his Facebook status read: “Lucas Caparelli: recommends not going to class on Wednesday because he is going to blow up campus. ” In those 90 minutes, Caparelli went from a highly-recruited running back to a persona non grata suspended by Wake Forest. “It was a dumb, immature, ignorant joke, but to me, it was a joke,” Caparelli told the Washington Post . More »
- Teens Tape Beating for Web
  
  The Ledger | Apr 8, 08 8:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Six girls aged 14 to 17 lured another teen to a home, beat her and videotaped the ambush to put it on the Internet, Florida police say. The 16-year-old victim is recovering from a concussion and hasn't fully regained her vision. Her assailants, with whom she'd been feuding online, may be charged as adults with battery and false imprisonment, the Lakeland Ledger reports. More »
- Google Tracking Refugees
  
  Associated Press | Apr 8, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A new feature allows Google Earth users to take a tour of the world’s refugee hotspots, with images of camps supplemented by information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the AP reports. The search titan has greatly improved the available resolution in its satellite photos of refugee areas—for example, individual tents are visible in a Chadian camp for Darfur’s displaced. More »
- Facebook and Rival Settling Origins Lawsuit
  
  New York Times | Apr 7, 08 2:01 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pending lawsuits between Facebook and rival social networking site ConnectU will be settled, a source tells the New York Times . The founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas back when both sites were in their infancy, and the Facebook CEO filed a countersuit against his former Harvard classmates. Terms of the settlement haven't been disclosed. More »
- Pavarotti Lipsynched Last Performance
  
  Guardian (UK) | Apr 7, 08 9:02 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Lipsynching isn't just for neophytes like Nikki Hilton—none other than tenor Luciano Pavarotti faked his way through his final public performance at the opening of the Turin Winter Olympics, the Guardian reports. In a new book, Pavarotti's conductor and pianist claims that he recorded the cancer-stricken tenor and the orchestra, and used video trickery to pull the ruse off before millions of TV viewers. More »
- Web Videos May Be Ad Gold Mine
  
  USA Today | Apr 4, 08 3:12 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - TV networks, major news organizations, and independent producers are all scrambling to create Web videos that will let them snag a portion of the ad dollars flowing online. Ad spending on Internet videos will grow to $4.3 billion by 2011, say researchers—a 455% increase over today. "It's growing faster than any other advertising category," an NBC Universal exec tells USA Today . More »
- Whew! Google Saved by the Highest Bidder
  
  New York Times | Apr 4, 08 1:02 PM CDT