Google + start auditing the accounts of users

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Google has begun to show audited accounts in their social network, Google +. These accounts have a check mark next to the name and pass the cursor over it the message 'name verified'. For now, they are authenticating the accounts of public figures, celebrities and you have a large following.

Last month, Google indicated its intention to use the famous Google + to attract more users. It has now taken the first step to achieve this: the inclusion of audited accounts similar to Twitter. Thus, Google continues to add features + already present in other social networks, such as games.

For now you can not request verification of the accounts, but that it is the search engine decides which profiles are to be authenticated.

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Explains Wen-Ai Yu (Google worker whose profile is verified), are focusing on checking accounts "public figures, celebrities and people who have been added to a large number of circles", but work to expand the function.

It is difficult to determine the number of contacts necessary to verify a Google account. As have shown in Search Engine Land, has been verified profiles with more than 4,000 followers, while more than 8,000 others have not been.

Internet offers to rent per hour friends

Jennifer Morrison worked as a receptionist at a restaurant in Las Vegas, but it also has a parallel life: accepts cash to take a visitor to know the Hall of Fame Pinball and dancing water fountains of the Bellagio casino.

Morrison, 31, also led to the cinema to a grandmother who was bored during a visit to her family and her company to a housewife who just moved to the city while arming a scrapbook.

The woman is a face to a new fashion, for rent all over the Internet, including friends, usually available on the site Rentafriend.com.

"You see a place like this and think: 'Ah, to be companions or is a dating site or something," said Morrison, mother of a toddler, who enrolled after talking with her husband. "When I first saw it, I had mixed feelings, I thought it was a bit sad that people had to do something."

Morrison thinks differently now. Cobra 20 to $ 30 per hour and also meet people. The site is inspired by other similar and highly successful in Japan and other Asian countries.

In a world where many people never meet their "friends" on Facebook and where loneliness can cause chronic health problems and even suicide, observers do not know if this is a solution or just a temporary fix.

"The question is: do you solve the problems anyone? My first reaction was to her eyes, but I think it actually can help to meet people and put back into service, but if used as replacement of deep relationships face to face, not going to work, "said researcher John T. neurological Cacioppo, who is investigating the solitude.

Rentafriend has 100,000 unique visitors per month and about 2,000 members who pay $ 24.95 monthly or annual 69.95 to see the profiles and photos of some 167,000 "friends" potential.

Christopher Barton, 31, a resident of Boulder City, Nevada, first tested the service about six months ago during a business trip. Barton spends more than a week away from home for months and he hates to eat alone in restaurants, and not to use their free time.

"I'm in different cities all the time," he said. With the service, "one has in a way a tourist guide."

The surreal social network ChatRoulette honored at the Webby delivery

The surreal ChatRoulette social network, which in just a few months has attracted the attention of millions of people around the world, was honored today at the Webby Awards, considered the Oscars of the Internet.

Andrey Ternovskiy, a Russian teenager who created this site to your friends, attended this gala event, held in New York, which were granted awards that the winners were already known since May, and among them were the actor Jim Carrey, film critic Roger Ebert and filmmaker David Lynch.
Born in November 2009, ChatRoulette completely random matches and by videoconference to the tens of thousands of users connected at all times to this website, which promotes contacts among strangers surreal, sometimes end up with dye pornographic.

The New York Times reported recently that the network was "one of those gloriously simple ideas that manages to harness the power of the Internet craze in a potentially revolutionary."
"The success of ChatRoulette offers a refreshing reminder that the Internet still offers a level playing field where anyone with a great idea or product to succeed," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the awards, in a press release before the gala.

Was also given special recognition for the choir composed of students 10 years of PS 22, the New York borough of Staten Island, who jumped to fame thanks to YouTube video portal, where his performances have been more than 17 million people.Children in this choir has among its fans with such familiar characters as the actor Ashton Kutcher, who said on Twitter that "loves these children" - an Oscar winner Marcia Gay or the star of "Knight Rider", David Hasselhoff.

The young singers rose to fame when his teacher, Gregg Breinberg, hung up on YouTube videos in which students interpreted the known numbers such as "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay.
Since then his fame has led them to sing at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York and act together with the Australian group Crowded House.

During the gala today also presented the Person of the Year award from the renowned online film critic and Pulitzer winner, Roger Ebert, and the Webby Lifetime Achievement was awarded to Vinton Cerf, one of the "fathers "Internet.

Best Actress in the network was the comedian Amy Poehler, well known in the U.S. for his impressions on "Saturday Night Life", but on this occasion was honored for its "Smart Girls in the Party", dedicated to interviewing and assessing young girls with big ambitions.

The highest number of awards it got the humor site College Humor and The New York Times, both with five awards.

The famous Muppets (Muppets) won four, including the most viral video of his rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody."

They also got four awards National Geographic, CBS, Sundance and HBO, while Twitter, Next New Networks, TED.com, VBS.tv, AOL and Mashable were made with three.

Other winners were the political and humorous montages "Auto-Tune the News", the humorously informative Colbert Nation and the project of film director David Lynch to conduct interviews with people he finds while traveling on U.S.

Among the most famous faces, highlights of Jim Carrey, who took a prize for its website; Lisa Kudrow in "Web Therapy", Isabella Rosselini in "Green Porno" Brad Pitt with his "Make It Right", Daryl Hall and his "Live from Daryl''s House" and Jaime Pressley in Axe ad "Clean Your Balls."

Twitter is looking for volunteers to translate this social network into other languages

The social network Twitter, which are presently only available in English and Japanese, seeks volunteers to translate this microblog platform into French, Italian, German and Spanish, said Biz Stone, one of the founders of this website.
In the blog Twitter, Stone says that created an easy tool for people who know other languages can "suggest" translations for new web pages.
The company, based in San Francisco, said that he invited a "small group of people to become volunteer translators," but more expected to join the project stakeholders to collect more contributions and proposals and thus accelerate the publication of new versions .
For Twitter, the idea of offering its platform in French, Italian, German and Spanish is just the beginning of its new business strategy, as later also wants to incorporate other languages into microblog.