Suffering From Facebook Fatigue? - TIME

It started innocently enough: last month a friend sent me a virtual lily plant on Facebook and invited me to create a (Lil) Green Patch, a digital garden that would grow on my profile page,

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Facebook Launched A New Way To Share With Friends

The option to import stories from other sites can be found via the small "Import" link at the top of your Mini-Feed. Only a few sites—Flickr, Yelp, Picasa, and del.icio.us—are available for importing at the moment, but we'll be adding Digg and other sites in the near future.

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How to fight splogs

At first glance, it seems like a regular blog. But look closer and you'll see there's something very odd about the blog's content: It's very familiar. Too familiar.

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Twitter Saves Berkeley Student Arrested in Egypt

Buck, 29, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.

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Gone in 60 seconds: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA

Needing only six seconds per attempt, and with a success rate of 10-15 percent, new anti-CAPTCHA bots are dismantling fraud protection systems at Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, and they are flooding the tubes with spam. Is CAPTCHA finished?

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Amazing Apple IIGS Laptop

We're still reeling from Ben Heck's amazing PS3 laptop but the man just hit us again with this amazing Apple IIGS laptop. Based off an original IIGS motherboard, the one-of-a-kind laptop features a 15-inch color screen, custom acrylic keyboard, a CompactFlash-based hard drive, and -- most importantly a glowing blue IIGS logo that flashes yellow.

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Updated Web Browsers: Which One Works Best?

Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox 3, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 duke it out to be the program you use most on your PC.

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