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Weekly Wrap – Facebook Friday

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Hit Out via Facebook for Baby Daddy

“I will pay somebody a stack to kill my baby father.” This is the message that Philadelphia mother Eley London posted on Facebook in an attempt to find a willing assassin to kill Corey Jerome White.

Apparently, London, 20, and her one-year-old child’s father got into a heated argument on May 23, which prompted her to search for a hired gunman.

Shockingly and stupidly, 18-year-old Tim Bynum agreed via Facebook to kill White for $1,000, posting “Say no more”, “What he look like?”, “Where he be at?”, “Need dat stack 1st”, and “I’ma mop that bull”. After seeing London’s message, White’s mother contacted her son, who then immediately contacted police.

London was arrested on June 10 and being held on $250,000 bail. She is being charged with conspiracy to commit murder, while Bynum is being charged with attempted murder and a weapons charge after police found a .22 caliber hand gun upon his arrest on June 12 at his Darby, Pennsylvania home. Bynum’s bail is set at $350,000.

 

Facebook App for iPad

The New York Times reported last night that Facebook will likely have an application for the iPad in the next couple weeks. Those briefed on the company’s plans say that the app will be free and was designed specifically for the iPad.

Apparently, the Facebook team has been working on the app for almost a year and it is now near completion. Though it is all just hear-say at this point, we hear that the app features a touch screen interface and updated chat and groups features.

Another exciting feature of the new Facebook iPad app will be the user-friendly photo-sharing feature, which is intended to allow users to “shoot and upload photos and videos directly from the iPad’s built-in cameras”.

 

PS – On a non-Facebook, but Friday note, Rebecca Black’s viral “Friday” music video has been pulled from YouTube due to copyright infringement laws.

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Big News from Apple’s WWDC Keynote

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, the keynote presentation by Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited features of iOS 5 (for iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch), Mac OS X Lion (for Macs and MacBooks), and iCloud.

Many websites had live feeds and live blogs coming from the event, and you can now watch the keynote on Apple’s website.

One trend in the features of OS X Lion seems to be making use similar to that of mobile devices such as the iPhone and the iPad.  The new appearance of the Mail application, notifications, and the multi-touch gestures feature (more info on these later) are very similar to features of iOS.  Another big game-changer is how you can update your Mac to OS X Lion when it is released in July: it is only available to download from the Mac App Store, and for a much lower price than past updates.

Some of iOS 5’s most exciting new features include a major change in the notification system, the integration of Twitter into the operating system, and the introduction of iMessage, a message service supported by iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.  iOS 5 will be available in the fall, supporting the same devices as the previous update.

Finally, Apple announced iCloud, which will store all of your content and wirelessly syncs it to all of your devices.  Apple has taken what they learned from MobileMe, worked out the bugs, and expanded the list of applications that can be used with it.

This, of course, does not begin to cover the exciting features Apple customers will soon be able to take advantage of, so stay tuned for more articles about WWDC.

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