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Fuser Helps You Organize Email and Social Network Messages

Fuser is a new service that allows users to view all of their email and social network messages in a single location. Fuser supports most of the leading email and social network messaging services including AOL, Microsoft Exchange, Hotmail, SquirrelMail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, MySpace and Facebook.

It took me less than two minutes to set up a Fuser account. Once I entered information for my email and social networking accounts, the website organized all of the messages and provided a snapshot of all of the online communications on the main page. The service is still in beta, and I cam across a few bugs, but for the most part it is a very useful tool, especially if you have several email and social network accounts.

Filed under: Web Apps

Blast Your Friends Away with Trumpia

A new service called Trumpia is taking annoying spam to the next level. Users of the service can enter contact information including cell phone numbers, email addresses and even instant messaging ids for anyone they want to “Blast” (the term the service uses).

Blasting involves sending a single message to every device /service of every contact you enter. This, the web site indicates, is to ensure that there is no way that your contact will miss your message. Sounds more like the ultimate spam tool to me or just a new way to truly annoy your friends.

Filed under: Im Pissed Off

What will be the next Apple iThingy?

Apple has announced that it has already sold over one million phones and expects sales to continue to be strong. According to Steve Jobs in a recent press release, Apple has sold “One million iPhones in 74 days—it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod”.

With the success of iPhone and the iPod, it makes you wonder what iThingy Apple will release next. Maybe an iInfringe to download even more illegal music or the iAdultDiaper for the iPod/iPhone user on the go. What do you think the next iThingy should be?

Filed under: Around The Web

Beware of the Dark Web

A new project called the Dark Web Project has been developed at the University of Arizona’s Artificial Intelligence Lab for the purpose of finding and examining online locations where terrorists may work to recruit new members. The project’s goal is to collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.

Recent reports have estimated that there are several thousand Web sites created and maintained by known international terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, that attempt to recruit new members to their organizations. So next time you are player a multi-player online Star Wars game, think twice about who is behind the Darth Vader mask asking you to join the Dark Side/Web.

Filed under: Around The Web