Wanted woman flags down police: Am I wanted?

LOCKLAND, Ohio (AP) - Police in suburban Cincinnati arrested a woman after she flagged an officer down and asked if there were any warrants out for her arrest. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Friday that after Lockland police officer Dan Lyons informed 44-year-old Selma Elmore she did have an outstanding warrant, the woman ran off. The chase ended when Elmore pushed Lyons into a building, injuring his elbow.

Other officers responding to a call for backup later apprehended the woman.

Elmore, wanted for allegedly failing to pay a fine as a result of a drug conviction, now faces a charge of resisting arrest.

Hamilton County Jail records did not list an attorney for Elmore.

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Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com

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Old Woman steals her own car

An elderly woman spent a day shopping at the mall. Upon return to her vehicle, she found four strange males sitting in her car. Frightened, the woman dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun. She told the men that if they did not get out of the car, she would shoot. The four men ran off quickly, whereupon the lady got into the car. Her key however, would not fit. The woman realized that her car was the identical one parked a few spaces down. She went to the police department and reported the story. The officer on duty laughed hysterically and pointed to the other end of the counter where four pale men had reported a car jacking by a mean old lady; no charges were filed.

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5 new things you can use Facebook “Groups” For

Facebook unveiled yesterday a new feature on its site that lets you share, chat and e-mail with small groups of friends. Groups, which differs from another feature with the same name, is designed for a small number of people who know one another--think families and co-workers. Here, you can share pictures, comments and articles privately with only the people in the group. The former group pages, which targeted large communities of people with a common interest, will still be active.

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In the announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Groups were developed to combat "the biggest problem in social media": sharing everything with everyone, when you really only want to share something with select people. " 'Just friends' was the most private setting," Zuckerberg said. "But you might not want to share something with hundreds or even thousands of friends."

Here's how to get started with Groups and details on its three main features.

1. Facebook Groups: Where to Start

On the left navigation of your Facebook page is a link to Groups (if it's not visible, choose More). Clicking this will take you to a homepage displaying the groups that you have joined in the past. You are not yet able to access the new Groups page from here; instead, you must visit the Groups landing page at http://www.facebook.com/groups.

Click "Create Group" to begin. If you're creating a group for family members, for example, name the group accordingly. Then begin typing the names of the people on Facebook that you want in the group. You can also change the icon that you associate with the group by clicking the drop-down menu next to Group Name.

Note that the default privacy setting is Closed--this means that the members of the group are visible, but everything that anyone posts is hidden to those outside the group. Additional settings are Open, in which all content is public; and Secret, in which both members of the group and content are private. Click Create to finish the setup.

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2. Facebook Groups: Group Chat

Another new feature to the new Groups is Group Chat. The difference between Group Chat and Facebook's other Chat feature is that the conversations you have in the pop-up window are accessed and seen by those members in the group, (rather than just the one person you'd chat with otherwise). So if you do enable this, remember: No bad-mouthing one family member while chatting with another in the group.

Group Chat can be found in two places. You can initiate a chat session by clicking the link "Chat with Group" on the right side of the Group page, or if you're not visiting the group page you can find it on the bottom toolbar next to the original Chat feature. If you'd like to remove Group Chat from your bottom toolbar, hover over it and click the X.

3. Facebook Groups: Creating Documents

The second new feature that Facebook incorporated into Groups is the ability to share documents. Note that you are not yet able to upload documents you have stored on your computer such as Word documents or Excel spreadsheets; you are only able to create new documents.

Document formatting features are limited: You can bold and italicize text and create bulleted and numbered lists. The documents you create in Groups can be accessed and edited by everyone in the group.

4. Facebook Groups: Choosing an E-Mail Address for the Group

The last unique feature to Facebook Groups is the ability to create an e-mail address that you can use outside Facebook to contact the group's members. When you send an e-mail to your group's e-mail address, the contents of it will appear on the group's wall. Only Group administrators can access this feature.

To begin, click "Edit Group" on the top right side of the Group page. Then, click "Choose for Group" next to the e-mail address option. Choose an available address that best suits the list; Facebook will tell you if that e-mail address has already been chosen. Your group's e-mail address will have the @groups.facebook.com extension.

5. Facebook Groups: Your Notification Settings

If you become a member of a larger, more active group, you might want to edit your notifications to cut down on noise. On the group's homepage, click "Edit Notifications" at the top right of the page. Here you can choose when you want to be notified--when a member posts or comments, only when a member posts, when a friend posts or never. You can also choose if you want notifications e-mailed to you.

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If you want to change the settings for e-mail notifications on all of the groups of which you are a member, go to Account > Account Settings > Notifications > Groups > Change e-mail settings for individual groups.

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NEW Facebook Group Feature, adds to groups automatically

The problems started on Thursday, the day after Facebook revamped groups, giving users a way to compartmentalize their Facebook lives and post certain items to pre-designated groups of people. That's when technology blogger Michael Arrington, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis all found themselves added to a group called NAMBLA. It wasn't immediately clear what this page was set up for, but NAMBLA is an acronym for the completely unsavory North American Man/Boy Love Association. (For South Park fans, it refers to the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes).

Mahalo CEO Calacanis quickly fired off an email to Zuckerberg Calacanis quickly fired off an email to Zuckerberg saying that he was troubled to have been added to the group without being given the opportunity to opt in.

That was followed by general confusion, with some reporting that Facebook's new feature could be used to unilaterally add anyone to a group.

But that isn't the case. The groups feature now lets users automatically add existing friends to groups, but they can't do this with people they don't know.

How did Zuckerberg get added to NAMBLA then? That's all down to tech blogger Arrington. "I typed in his name and hit enter,' Arrington wrote on TechCrunch. "He's my Facebook friend, I therefore have the right to add him."

Arrington added that "as soon as Zuckerberg unsubscribed I lost the ability to add him to any further groups at all, another protection against spamming and pranks."

A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed that group members can only add their friends to the group. "If you have a friend that is adding you to groups you do not want to belong to, or they are behaving in a way that bothers you, you can tell them to stop doing it, block them or remove them as a friend -- and they will no longer ever have the ability to add you to any group," she wrote in an e-mail. "If you don't trust someone to look out for you when making these types of decisions on the site, we'd suggest that you shouldn't be friends on Facebook."

Facebook Friends can also send messages and tag photos of other friends. Neither of these features has generated any type of outcry.

Arrington himself was added to the group by someone named Jon Fisher, one of Arrington's 4,824 Facebook friends. Fisher is also one of Calacanis's 4,740 friends.

Still, there is something disquieting about the way groups works, according to Chet Wisniewski, a senior security advisor with Sophos. He's concerned with the fact that people cannot opt out of the groups sign-up feature. "I'm uncomfortable with the idea that other people can determine what I display," he said. "The fact that it can't be opted out of, to me, seems a bit strange."

Facebook's groups Help Center confirms that there's simply no way to prevent people from adding you to groups. And the critics say that rather than being added automatically, friends should be given the choice to opt into any groups.

In a sign that Calacanis and Wisniewski may be onto something, online affiliate marketers have begun speculating about how the feature could be misused to drive traffic to marketing Web sites -- a current favorite form of Facebook abuse. "If you were to make a group named AT&T and decided to make a few 'official' Facebook spokesperson accounts to add to the fun, you could essentially launch a campaign offering FREE WIRELESS SERVICE FOR EVERYONE DURING THE MONTH OF OCTOBER," wrote a poster named Jon to the Wickedfire.com Internet marketing forum.

This Jon also claimed to have set up a fake NAMBLA page.

"Seeing as how crowd manipulation and influence over the interwebz is sooooooo easy already, plus tack on this as a social parody of sorts, and poof, you have yourself a publicity nightmare on a scale that would be spreading far more rapidly than any BP oil spill ever could," he added.

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Joke: The best chess Player

A man went to visit a friend and was amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watched the game in astonishment for a while. "I can hardly believe my eyes!" he exclaimed. "That's the smartest dog I've ever seen." "Nah, he's not so smart," the friend replied. "I've beaten him three games out of five." -

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The 1 million Dollar Homepage

'Million Dollar Homepage' entrepreneur returns

Tew looks for a few (million) good men

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Internet | 29 Sep 2010 :  The British entrepreneur who five years ago netted $1m with his Million Dollar Homepage website - in which advertisers bought pixels on a Web page a dollar at a time - is back with a $3m idea that he describes as a "real face book".

Twenty-six year-old Alex Tew's One Million People will charge users $3 to upload a single picture of themselves with a goal of achieving a million images. Tew will print a book - "an actual, real face book" - once the million slots are filled.

"The goal is to take a snapshot of the Facebook generation, and immortalise one million faces in a stunning printed book", he explained. "It will be a timeless physical symbol of the social Web revolution and how more than ever, we are all part of one global community."

Tew shot to fame when in 2005 when the penniless student created The Million Dollar Homepage. A simple and brazen scheme to sell 1 million pixels of ad space for $1 each, The site became a worldwide Internet sensation and achieved its goal in just four months.

Tew admits his new project is inspired by his previous creation: "The Million Dollar Homepage was a snapshot of the Internet at the time, a vibrant tapestry of different ads and logos. I was thinking how much the Internet has
changed over the past five years, and that's what gave me the idea: let's reinvent the concept and take a snapshot of the web today: the social web."

According to Tew over 1,000 people have signed up since the site went live earlier in the week, and he also revealed that he is reserving the first space in the book for Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

The project can be found at www.onemillionpeople.com.

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Ireland Streets are on Google at Last

Google Street View hits the road

Ireland becomes 25th country to get eyes on the ground

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Internet | 01 Oct 2010 :  Three years after its initial launch, Google has finally brought its Street View service to Ireland, allowing users to virtually explore the country's cities, towns and countryside through panoramic street-level imagery.

Some 51,000 miles of road have been driven by Google to collect images for Street View Ireland. Street View only contains imagery that is already visible from public roads and photographs are taken at a point in time and are not live images.

Ireland is the 25th country to launch Street View and tourism, culture and business organisations - including Fáilte Ireland, Daft Media, Chambers Ireland and the Arts Council - have been quick to adopt Street View on their websites having partnered.

Launching Street View in Ireland, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport Mary Hanafin said: "Street View is an example of a practical innovation which makes life easier for people using the Internet to locate and research Ireland's cities, towns and streets. Its applications are many but one of the real benefits for Ireland is from a tourism perspective. Street View will showcase the real beauty of Ireland's towns and countryside to millions of internet users around the world and has the potential to deliver a welcome boost to visitor numbers to Ireland. With many benefits for businesses, property sellers and the general public the introduction of Street View for Ireland is welcome news."

Mr. John Herlihy, VP global ad operations and head of Google in Ireland, added: "Street View has been hugely popular with our users in Europe and worldwide and we're thrilled it's now available in Ireland, enabling users to see street-level panoramas of major city roads and to look up and print out useful driving directions. Google Maps & Google Earth have long been popular with Irish people and are used by governments, businesses and individuals as essential and informative tools every day of the week - Street View now adds a new dimension."

Countering allegations that Google Street View compromised individual privacy, Herlihy said: "Our technology is very effective though it may occasionally miss a face or number plate here and there. If users spot something our technology has missed just press ‘report a problem' and we'll get it fixed quickly."

Also commenting on the launch, and the associated concerns Gary Davis, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner, said: "We worked closely with Google to ensure that any privacy concerns that people might have were addressed in advance of the launch date. Inevitably some images of people were captured as the camera-cars were driven on Irish streets. Google has undertaken to blur the faces of such people, as well as car number-plates. This should eliminate most privacy concerns. Where blurring is insufficient or where people wish to remove other information associated with them - including images of their houses - Google has provided an easy-to-use removal tool."

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