Why is there a blank space where a Google Street View once appeared?
Google developers recently changed the format and code of Google Street Views. The views have an improved interface, but in early January older ‘legacy’ Google Street View’ disappeared from view in situations where the Street View Code is embedded in a web page or blog. Viewers of web pages published using the older code simply see the blank color of the background of the page — white space, black space, or whatever background color is coded on the page.

Unfortunately the breakdown of Google Street View has affected over 100 pages on Arlingtoncardinal.com (select news reports) and StreetsofArlington.com (intersection view). A Google employee acknowledged the problem in a Google Map forum on January 16, 2010, and on January 23, 2010 announced that software developers are working on a fix that involves re-directing the old code to the new code.

Newly created Street Views after mid-January, 2010 show properly on web pages. The older Street Views should re-appear when Google provides the re-direct fix.

What countries have Google Street View?
Google has provided a world map that shows all of the locations that have Google Street View. Here it is …
Google Street View Location Map

The New and Improved Street View …

View Larger Google Street View of Flamingo Pond at San Diego Zoo.

Here’s and example of the 4th generation camera that Google is using with near HD quality imaging. But, more important is that use of an off-road vehicle — presumably the Google Maps Trike that can go wear the Google camera car cannot.

Screen shot of Twitter.com home page as it was defaced by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’

Twitter blackout. Twitter down. Tweets did not go through early Friday morning. The tweet failure on Twitter was accompanied by defacement of the front page of Twitter using some method of DNS re-assignment most likely.

What did the message from the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ say?

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.

Twitter was back up in about an hour and fixed by 1:30 a.m. CT on Friday.

Tweet from Twitter that acknowledge that Twitter’s DNS was hacked early Friday morning, December 17, 2009 (twitter.com/twitter).

Iranian Revenge for the ‘Twitter Revolution’
The defacement appears to be a reprisal for Twitter’s role in the Iranian election protests in June 2009. Iranian citizen’s used Twitter to provide updates to the world about Iranian government reaction to protests. Iranian protesters beamed images from the violent protests when mainstream media was blocked from entering Iran, and forbidden from broadcasting information if there were journalist inside the country.

Twitter became so important in spreading news of the protests — and in aiding protester communication on the streets of Iran — that the U.S. State Department asked Twitter to delay a planned shutdown for maintenance.

A second site was also hacked with the same home page defacement …

Google search results fro mowjcamp.com … for more information see GLOBALCONFLICTMAPS.COM: DNS Tweet Down: ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ Hacks, Defaces Twitter Home Page

David Pogue, New York Times Tech Columnist: Verizon is absolutely pulling the strings on these false charges because they control the design of the phone — telling manufacturers of phones what features they want on the phone.

Complaints of so-called data charges that are fraudulently being added to your cell phone bill by your cell phone company. Watch out for shortcut keys for “Mobile Me” or “GetItNow” services from AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

David Pogue, New York Times Tech Columnist claims he received a tip from a Verizon employee that Verizon is creating these error-prone features on purpose.

Accidental repetitive hits of a button can bring a dollar-per-click — often unnoticed by cell phone customers, but bringing in extra income to phone companies. With 80 million customers and a good portion making the click errors or pocket dialing, etc. there is a potential for millions of dollars of extra income to the phone companies.

Verizon Wireless claims few people are committing the click accidents.

Video from ABC7 Chicago regarding all television stations phasing out of analog television starting this past Friday. ABC7 Chicago turned off their analog signal with the press of a button at Willis Tower on Friday October 30, 2009.

ABC7 is now broadcasting on UHF channel 44 with a digital translator on VHF channel 7. Viewers may now be able to receive a stronger signal over the air may after they rescan their Digital TV’s or DTV converter boxes.

This also means that some viewers, after they rescan their Digital TV’s or DTV converter boxes, may be able to receive ABC7’s three digital channels (7.1, 7.2, and 7.3) twice. If this happens to you, you can simply choose to ignore the duplicate channels, or you can use the signal strength feature of your Digital TV or DTV converter box to see if reception of one set of channels is stronger than the other. If one set of channels (7.1, 7.2, and 7.3) is clearly stronger or more stable, you can follow your Digital TV or DTV converter box guide to delete the weaker channels from your digital receiver’s memory.

I think I have a virus! Are you thinking this? My friends are getting e-mails about photos or friends on “Tagged” from me that I did not send. Are you frustrated by this? Have you received an email that looks like the image above? Have your friends told you that you have a virus and sending out spam from your e-mail account?

You can probably relax. You probably don’t have a virus, but probably have been phished.

Tagged.com is a social networking site that has had numerous consumer complaints lodged against it for its spam e-mail practices, and is regarded as a phishing and spamming site by consumer anti-fraud advocates. Tagged provides a feature whereby users are invited to provide it with their email username and password, and it will then check their email address books for contacts. Tagged uses email address books to repeatedly send email invites to people who are not yet on Tagged, claiming that they have been “added as a friend” or had photos of them tagged. Obviously, the methods of Tagged.com have met some criticism in the technology press and from aggravated users.

Here’s what might happen if you click on a link from Tagged.com and provide them with an email user name and address.

The Tagged.com automated system will find all the contacts in your address book and begin sending your contacts automated messages that look similar to the image at the top of this article.

You would first know of your trouble when friends begin telling that you might have a virus. Or they might be angry that you gave another company their email address.

Tagged.com sometimes re-emails your contacts for about three days.

Tagged was co-founded by Harvard graduates and entrepreneurs Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith and launched in October 2004. So far they are still in operation with Tagged.com.
AVOID IT!

More info …
Phishing – The Tagged.com Email Scam …

The latest version of the “Koobface” worm virus sends a imposter message from a Facebook friend asking you to click on a link to a video. If you click, you see a page with a photo of your friend and are asked to download a video player (pretending to be the latest Flash player by Adobe) to watch the video. Clicking on the link to the player actually clicks to a link that downloads a virus, which seeks out information on your computer. The virus then sends more replicated versions of the virus to all of your Facebook friends.

W32.Koobface.A Removal from Symantec …

Koobface partial face – book (book is backwards).

Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.a is a variant that attacks MySpace users.

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