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What makes this site so useful is that they have combined linguistic data with a unique interface to let you quickly search through thousands of domains and see which are available. This gives you options you might not have thought of as well as save you tons of time. Check it out.

Many online payment companies have tried to beat Paypal and Noca is another one willing to get into the ring. Noca’s strategy, you ask? Lower transactional fees and a complicated payment process (at least it seems at first, second and third glance). You can read more about their process here.

Even if  it’s processes were as easy as Paypal’s, it would still face an uphill task to beat the incumbent. Paypal owes almost all its success to Ebay (I, for one, signed up for Paypal only because an Ebay seller would not accept any other payment) and Noca too, will need a Sugar Daddy  who can promote it as well as shove it down people’s throat. Good luck Noca.

Check out Noca’s website here.

If you are a fan of Twitter and would like to follow some celebrities just because your friends aren’t good enough, look no further. Here are some of the ones we know about:

Stephen Fry

Lily Allen

Andy Murray (Tennis Star)

Ghostface Killah

Jimmy Fallon (Surprisingly, hes a drag on twitter)

John Roderick (The Long Winters)

Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)

Bjork

AC/DC

Nick Cave

MC Hammer

Wil Wheaton

Tina Fey

Demi Moore

Ashton Kutcher

I don’t think any of these Twitter accounts are similar to the Dalai Lama’s but you never know.

Google Maps caught a man with his pants down, literally. This picture could be viewed on Google Street View of a man sitting on his outhouse dunny in Melbourne

Google, obviously, had to remove this image from its database once it was posted online.

Emma Brady found out from her husband’s Facebook status message that he is leaving her. His status message read - “Neil Brady has ended his marriage to Emma Brady”.

Emma felt even worse when someone had actually commented on the message - “You are better off out of it”.

You can read more here.

This was a very hard lesson for organizations such as AFP, Live Mint and IT World. The world was excited to find out that Dalai Lama had signed up for an account on Twitter and this hoax managed to fool a lot of people thanks to news sources that we normally trust. Here are some of the articles that had people following the ‘fake’ Dalai Lama:

Yahoo News

Dallas News

Wink News

IT World

PC Mag

AFP

Live Mint

What happened to the days of vetting a story before publication? Is the traditional press struggling to keep up with the new trend of Citizen Journalism made possible by the advent of blogs and other social networking tools? It could be a possible explanation for publishing a story in a hurry without checking its authenticity.

Seventeen internet firms have agreed to take steps to protect European children from online abuse on social networking websites. Websites such as Facebook and MySpace will add a ‘Report Abuse’ button on profiles of their uses under the age of 18 and also their profiles and contact lists will be set to ‘private’.

Why would’nt they do this for ALL of their users under the age of 18? Makes you wonder if these companies have been forced into being responsible by the EU.