There is no greater blessing for a parent than to name a baby. Baby Facebook’s proud parents not only had this honor they made a political and social media statement while doing so. Social media changes lives.

As a side point emphasizing how powerful Social Media is, we recently wrote about a poor homeless guy, Ted Williams, who landed a job and basically was able to resurrect his life through Social Media in a similar manner that Social Media took down Mubarak’s 29 year reign as President of Egypt.”

The Egyptian couple named their first born daughter Facebook Jamal Ibrahim, reports TechCrunch, according to
Al-Ahram (one of the most popular newspapers in Egypt). This is in no small part due to their gratitude towards Facebook in that it was the key player in Hosni Mubarak’s abdication of his presidency after 29 years in power in Egypt.

On February 10, 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that Twitter executives held “low level” talks with executives at Google and Facebook in past months about possibly taking over Twitter. There seems to be a lot of information being exposed about a confidential matter.  Facebook, Google and Twitter have declined to comment on it.  However, it’s interesting  [...]

Since its launch, Microsoft’s revolutionary hands-free Xbox360´ controller, have been receiving a lot of attention. Not from casual gamers and families only, but from hackers as well. They buy Kinect and use their “magic” to create amazing stuff with Xbox360’s peripheral. After the jump, take a look on what those talented people (hackers) did with Kinect, a PC and some creativity.

Now the Kinect Hacks are Getting Awesome

Kinect+Processing+Transcreen from BREADltd on Vimeo.

It’s that time again when various media channels do a retrospective on the year. It is interesting to note that the conservative Tea Party political movement, Julian Assange- the WikiLeaks guy, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the 33 trapped Chilean miners were passed up for TIME magazine’s choice as “Person of The Year”.

The bottom line is that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the Facebook social networking site has changed the way many people socialize which has had a huge impact on people’s day to day lives.

It doesn’t matter if you’re at work or home, it seems that there’s always a need for music. Nowadays, there are a lot of softwares/websites that offer music on the go. Places like Last.fm and Pandora give you some freedom to listen to your favorite songs on the web. However, there’s a new kid in town and from the looks of it, the competition should take notice.

Grooveshark.com is an international online music search engine, music streaming service and music recommendation web software application. It allows users to search for, stream, and upload music FREE of charge that can be played immediately or added to a playlist you’ll create, name and share. Grooveshark aims to help bridge the growing gaps between artists, consumers and those in between who distribute, market, and promote music.