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What Happened on Friday, May 30th of 2008?Today

Ever tried out Facebook Lexicon? It’s a nifty tool that looks for occurrences of certain terms on Facebook users’ walls and creates a graph that shows how often is the term mentioned over time.

The Lexicon has been around for quite a while now, but while playing with it today I noticed an interesting occurence, which you can see in the image below. Terms like “happy birthday,” obviously, are mentioned pretty much all the time, while “Obama” has had a huge spike during the presidential elections and the subsequent victory of Barack Obama.

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However, the term “sex” has an unexplainable spike on Friday, May 30th of 2008. Perhaps it’s just a glitch, or maybe I’m missing something obvious, but I can’t for the life of me remember why would people mention this word more on that particular day than any other day.

Any ideas that can solve the mistery?

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Official MSDN/Technet Windows 7 beta ISO appears on Pirate BayYesterday

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft, P2P, Beta, Windows x64

Just because something is about to be publicly released doesn't mean it won't show up on a torrent tracker a little early.

Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 - which are set to be downloaded right from Microsoft by the first 2.5 million people that pounce on the links - have already appeared on major torrent sites like Pirate Bay.

The torrents are labeled as .Technet.TAP.700. As I mentioned late last night, MSDN and Technet subscribers had early access to the ISO files. Clearly at least one of them felt the need to share his or her advanced copy with the P2P community.

If you're waiting for the genuine article right from Redmond, the link should be posted on the WIndows 7 page some time in the next 12 hours.





Facebook for iPhone and iPod touch updated to version 2.1Yesterday

Filed under: Macworld, Software, iPhone, iPod touch

In the online social networking space you've got your big guns: MySpace, to a lesser extent Twitter and for business users, LinkedIn. Facebook is also extremely popular and now, Facebook's client for iPhone and iPod touch has been updated to version 2.1.

Among the changes for this update include fewer crashes (that's an important one), corrected timestamps for all time zones, improved sync time and faster loading of the inbox. It's also worth noting that Facebook for iPhone and iPod touch requires iPhone 2.2 firmware.

Other iPhone and iPod touch apps updated recently include Pandora, Things, Darkslide, Lists and the trifecta of



Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta Now Available, Supports Profile Switching, User Scripts [Beta Beat]Yesterday

chrome-2.0.pngGoogle Chrome 2.0 is now available in pre-beta form from the folks at GOOG for anyone anxious enough to keep up with the cutting edge releases of Chrome. The 2.0 release boasts several fixes and updated features, including support for user scripts (à la Greasemonkey but not yet full Greasemonkey compatibility), easy profile switching, form autofill (à la every browser in the world), and full page zooming. You'll need to download the Google Chrome Channel Chooser and join the Dev channel if you're ready to get started on the 2.0 path. [via]





Boxee opens up alpha, adds iPlayer support for UK usersYesterday

Filed under: Software, Apple TV

It isn't just about Macworld; shockingly there is some other tech news happening this week as well. Our pals over at boxee have just announced a new version, some love for UK users and some great news: no more invites needed!

Instead of hounding me (I kid, I never minded) for a boxee invite, you can sign-up yourself at boxee.tv/join and get downloads for the Mac, Apple TV and Ubuntu. The Windows alphas are still in closed testing, but progress is moving quickly.

Here's a run-down on what's new and improved:

  • iPlayer support for UK users -- no more crying over the lack of overseas Hulu; you can now get the iPlayer via boxee
  • Joost support
  • MTV Music support
  • dual-screen support
  • Netflix improvements
  • search in Hulu
  • updates to the SMB library

Netflix is still only working on the Mac and not on