technology meets charity!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/08/facebook.good.charity/index.html


Charities have teamed up with facebook to generate revenue for their causes. Facebook has made "gifts" available on their site for a small fee. This "fee" in turn is sent to the charity that sponsored the gift. Also, facebook plans to incorporate more charities into their site as the number of members grows rapidly. Personally, I think it's an amazing idea for facebook to try to include charities into their overwhelmingly popular site. This creates a voice for a lot of charities that go un-noticed. They need to create a safe and efficient way for members to pay directly to the charity, with the attempt of elimating the middle man. Overall, i approve. Way to go facebook!

twitter fail!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/03/moore.twitter.threat/index.html

As we all know, twitter is an up-and-coming social networking site. Celebs, politicians, and normal citizens have all jumped on the band wagon. So it's not surprising to hear that an interesting occurance dealing with twitter has hit the media. While Demmi Moore was in Fance, she received a tweet from a psychotic fan threatening suicide. Whaaaat???? Fans on her twitter noticed, as well as Demmi, and the police were dispatched to the location of the woman in trouble. Essetnailly they controlled the situation and took her into custody.
I'm surprised that this is the first fan to do something like this on a celeb's twitter feed. If you think about all the obsessed followers, is a personal twitter safe for a celebrity to possess? do you think that there will be more events like this as twitter becomes more popluar?