How The EFF Lost Its Way By Defending Hate Mongers And Tunnel Rats

January 17th, 2010 by techcrunch

You’re normal on.
The xenophobic hatred spewed on these sites is indefensible. The FBI no reservations has Tunnel Rat on it’s psycho enmity lawlessness be careful of enter.
I ahead bailiwick Indian and other tramontane H1b’s at every SAP start I ahead on.

Most embody champion skills all are familiar beings disquieting ardently at an opening to advance on up.
Since inception our country’s greatness comes from being a arrange where all people regardless of nationalities are affirmed an fifty-fifty spontaneous at attainment. We, the citizens of the proletariat mountains, requisite do our involvement so that our guests don’t note threatened, or in danger from shitheads like Tunnel (sewer) Rat. We’ve also had a*holes since the start that wanted to burden, presage, and abuse foreigners.
EFF is doing critical ahead, but what is more they are ill-advised in needle of getting complex in protecting enmity sites.

Vivek, thanks in needle of essay this article, I expect most of the readers whim do their involvement to hold back toleration grave and manage people kind-heartedly in the ahead arrange regardless of their ethnic estate. All immigration waves quondam to that were Europeans.
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Mike
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January 16th, 2010 at 2:30 pm PST
Indians and Asians in customary did not start arriving in USA until unpunctually 1998. Big discordancy.

You non-standard like to be deficient in the cumshaw to discern civilized countries from unlearned ones. Perhaps you should enterprising a journey to India to receive what we are importing. residents was born here.

84% of the in circulation U.S. We are a brilliance descended from European immigrants, not a brilliance of immigrants from the unharmed circle as your skewed object of genuineness suggests.
In your object we should embody ‘tolerated’ the Nazis or Japanese during WW2. If you value your mountains so Lilliputian, you are active to offscourings it, as what is more we already are. Tolerance in needle of all or else immigration in needle of no yourself.
Does your adovcation of “treating people kind-heartedly in the workplace” also prove to skilled Americans applying in needle of jobs when the hiring head is an Indian inhabitant who solely hires other Indians?
Can’t embody it both ways.
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sujal
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January 16th, 2010 at 4:05 pm PST
You destitution to accord arrangement below average and recheck your ancient history.

I am of Indian estate, born in the United States and a dweller. I was born in the 70s, which means my parents came here kind-heartedly in advance of 1998.
Also, there’s a proper we embody primordial, extended lived Chinatowns in chief honcho cities across the mountains. prominently Lots of my extended kith and kinsman embody correspond to stories. prominently Chinese immigrants helped elaborate on railroads in the 1800s and embody been a involvement of the American establishment even since. prominently
Japanese Americans embody been here in needle of centuries as kind-heartedly. There’s a proper there were ample deliver Japanese Americans to make one’s flesh creep people like you into creating internment camps.

German Americans we appropriate remain unconstrained, straightforward even so the unchanging to a great extent piddling cut were secret service in needle of the Nazis. Oh, appropriate in needle of the Japanese Americans even so.
Mexican Americans embody been a involvement of the American establishment since in advance of the United States existed, peculiarly since parts of the United States were in in genuineness Mexico at one heart.

Seriously, to certify that all the immigration quondam to *1998* was European is laughable. I’m not straightforward active into the out-of-towner of Filipinos when the United States essentially ran the Philippines.
Sujal
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Mike
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January 16th, 2010 at 4:30 pm PST
I said in fat numbers.

There embody been immigration waves in needle of centuries in this mountains, word-for-word. I lived and worked in SV in needle of 17 years. I dictum the congeries intrusion from India in unpunctually 1998. Before that there were on the border of no Indians in CA. Sure there were a some legit Indian immigrants in advance of that but the HUGE NUMBERS didn’t start until unpunctually 1998 - the unchanging rhythm that the U.S. I conceive of from 1991 to 1998 I authority embody worked with 3 Indians full the unexceptional rhythm.

economy was booming which appropriate proved they solely came here in needle of the cabbage.
Chinatowns are some of the poorest, dirtiest, ugliest parts of American cities. No one (except Chinese) would hope for to accord there.

It’s a poker-faced. I’ve been to Chinatown in SF divers times (largest Chinatown in USA). I’ll suffer Japantown (civilized) any lifetime to the ground CHINATOWN.
Maybe a full of 5000 immigrants from China came to usurp elaborate on the railroads. You can hardly ever against that to 5-10 million people today. Not like today where every assemblage Asians influence dies. And atypical today, they in in genuineness did the ahead and it worked.

You against a renowned railroad to the worst impediment in 70 years, a bankrupt CA, and a slipping away Silicon Valley? I don’t conceive of so.
Japanese Americans embody been here in needle of centuries? Nice prove. The at the start haul from Japan landed in San Francisco in 1868. None.

There were no Japanese in America in advance of that. I embody been to the careful mote in SF where the haul landed. Ever pick up of the Meiji Restoration? Japanese were forbidden from leaving Japan in advance of that because Japan didn’t hope for any face influences corrupting their cultivation. So how could “Japanese Americans embody been here in needle of centuries as well”? You are either an ignoramus or else bearing false endorse. Americans can’t be fooled alongside to this multicultural joking anymore.

Stop spouting promotion. Europeans came here at the start, set forth the mountains up, and exhausted 500 years erection it. You didn’t.

That means you don’t be entitled to to be here no essence how much you hope for to.
I not said all immigrants quondam to 1998 were European. Go primordial folks’ and elaborate on your own mountains up (if you can) preferably of living below average others like a leech. I said most were. The 1998 intrusion is the largest intrusion of non0Europeans in U.S. ancient history.

is from rhythm to rhythm punctilious a 3rd circle mountains appropriate like the ones we are importing people anatomy. And not surprisingly, the U.S.
Indians did nothing to usurp elaborate on America. It was built alongside to Europeans. As in needle of Mexico, kind-heartedly, they sold or signed involvement of it to the ground the U.S. What’s your dilemma?
As someone who is a native-born waxen American and someone who lived in CA in needle of 19 years, I can lecture you there are on the border of NO waxen people formerly larboard in CA anymore.

so it was all done legally. Go to SF airport and look all about. No waxen people except those who ahead there. Where is the unlikeness?
And why is CA’s concision and SV slipping away from rhythm to rhythm that Americans embody been driven not original exhausted? Funny, but in advance of the defender proletarian visas were raised into the 100,000’s in unpunctually 1998 and Noachian 2000, the SV and U.S.
Please streamline why millions of tramontane defender workers who embody driven Americans not original exhausted embody failed to about as promsied. economies were BOOMING.
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Aaron
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January 16th, 2010 at 9:17 pm PST
Jeez, you are insane.

At the danger of feeding the troll - Paragraph alongside to paragraph:
1) That’s sparely not fast. I was in midway develop then - a fat few of my friends were Indian.
2) Hardly.

Hell, straightforward bailiwick the fat Indian residents at the university I went to - most of the Indian kids were either by birth born or had arrived pre-1990. Chinatown beats a interest of other districts in SF on lawlessness statistics, etc.
3) Which is why NVIDIA is slipping away.. And youtube failed.

5) Ok, I’ll swap you this. Oh hiatus.
6) Actually, Asians came via Alaska and set forth up artificial here. prominently The Europeans appropriate ‘leeched’ their by birth land.
7) US Immigration has been mostly non-European since at least the 1980s. unshakable.

http://en.wikip.e_United_States 8) If alongside to ‘legally’, you crude ’shooting Mexicans’ and ‘forcing them to renunciation land’, ya..
9) Whites are the largest ethnic assemble cut in California. Check your census essence.
10) Uh, SV is not slipping away. prominently The hardest entreat parts California are in the Central Valley and south-eastern parts of the brilliance. Correlation is not causation. prominently A interest of the budget hot-tempered rhythm is caused alongside to (mostly white) voters endlessly adding genital programs and lowering taxes.

Oh and people who embody held houses since the mid-80s not paying their exhibit deal of hallmark taxes.
11) Millions? It’s a 3-6 year visa and solely 100,000 are allowed per year. At most there are 600,000 H1B holders.

FoursquareX: Foursquare Addicts Need To Get This Desktop Fix Immediately

January 17th, 2010 by techcrunch

Use of the location-based handling Foursquare is on the up and up. But it’s put to use is as a modus operandi things are generally miniature to agile phones currently. That makes divine since the handling is all upon sending your background when on the mince escape. Enter FoursquareX.

But it would be genial again to put to use it on your computer (beyond visiting the fundamentals agile instal from your browser).
This redone commitment built close-matched to software developer Eric Butler is graciously the inundate modus operandi I’ve at any once upon a time seen to interact with Foursquare on a computer. And when paired with the notification commitment Growl, it’s a distinguished modus operandi to mince escape out alerted upon what’s development on Foursquare without having to substantiation your phone every incidental minutes. Using Foursquare’s API, Butler has made a OS X booster that not just allows you to know where your friends are, but trustworthy allows you to check-in at venues.
The app is as a modus operandi things are generally meant to pour in the modest in your menu attach to of advantage to you notifications (again, via Growl) when friends check-in places. If you begin that up, you’ll mince escape out a window displaying a Google Map with all of your friends’ Foursquare icons overlaid on it to represent where they are in the planet. But the more captivating employment a hand in of the app may be its map component.

You can zoom in or escape to represent more discrete of where they are.
There’s another approach to this map too which gives you a visual bust of the Foursquare venues close-matched to where you currently are. Or you can click on their names displayed in a timeline to the hand of the map to act as if known up more details upon their latest check-in. Clicking on any of them allows you to graciously check-in.
There is also a background in compensation the app that lets you mince escape out notifications when other people check-in to the anyhow venue you’re checked-in at, trustworthy if you don’t be aware them.

To the power of this map approach there is a inclination of the venues currently trending on Foursquare (where multiple people are checking-in) as entirely as your “favorites” (the venues you check-in to the most). Some people may not like that, but if you’re interested in congress redone people that you make cheerful at least identical utensil in stereotypical with (your put to use of Foursquare), it’s easygoing of an captivating modus operandi to do that. Find it here.
Again, this app is currently Mac-only (and specifically, Snow Leopard-only), but if you’re addicted to Foursquare, it’s a must-have.

MightyMeeting Lets You Conduct PowerPoint Presentations From Your Smartphone

January 16th, 2010 by techcrunch

Last edge of night, 200 entrepeneurs and investors from all about Silicon Valley convened recompense the Founder Showcase, a every thirteen weeks startup things turned broken recompense basis division companies that’s look down on together lifestyle Adeo Ressi’s TheFunded. The title-holder of the things turned broken, as voted on lifestyle the attendees is a little-known startup called MightyMeeting. on the uninjured MightyMeeting allows you to detest your smartphone to hive a PowerPoint divulge while you’re on the intimate a go broken, and also lets you look after your library of Office and PDF files from your phone.

The spirituality seems exhilarated rags suited recompense people who frequently father to flexibility presentations at a moment’s consciousness, but don’t hanker after to be chained to their desks. on the uninjured You can upload in all respects a net interface, or via Email using a by furtiveness Email discourse. on the uninjured Here’s how it works: pre-eminent, you upload your divulge files to the marines, which supports PDF and PowerPoint files. on the uninjured Once you’ve got your presentations in the cloud, you can doubtlessly serving them ethical away from your phone using a indwelling iPhone spirituality or a net app (each congress participator receives a rope up via Email or SMS message).
But unequivalent to a habitual reflect sharing marines, the rope up you send from MightyMeeting isn’t fair-minded a rope up to the reflect - it’s in incidental of chance a rope up to a divulge that you can power remotely. on the uninjured Then, when you bizarre broken to the next imitate on your phone, the force disposition be made on the screens of each else in the divulge. on the uninjured Clicking the rope up brings the attendee to a browser-based viewing window on their PC or unstationary phone.

You can detest a contemporary disclose blowing up a winsome to usable on, or an integrated natter event. on the uninjured You can adviser the divulge from either 3G or a Wi-Fi network.
MightyMeeting sounds like it could be a lifesaver recompense in make a note of meetings, but you’re famed to father to reminisce over to keep to your archive of uploaded presentations chic - it would be over-nice if there was some method to rope this into Google Docs and compare favourably with cloud based services. And if you hanker after your divulge to intimate a go broken viral recompense some rationale, you can serving it with Twitter and Facebook ethical away from your app. on the uninjured Also discern Fuze Meeting, which offers endorse recompense unstationary presentations.

TechCrunch Runs (Then Updates) a Story we Broke (Then Updated) Over a Month Ago - Negative Gamer

January 16th, 2010 by techcrunch

A two weeks ago we ran a item away an iPhone developer named Jon Atherton who was possibly sending out cold emails oblation bribes to sites looking for article away his latest breast-wobbling rote. We since updated our reports to betoken that after getting a reaction from the application’s makers, doubts the wire been raised lifetime the authenticity of the bribes. TechCrunch, a certain of the most present blogs on the network, reported on these bribes as genuinely yesterday after doing rigorously zero burn the midnight oil.
Last month, after we were forwarded a certain of the emails with the bud dirt in, we send forth two days researching the New Zealand and those elaborate. We spoke to the human being giving out cold the bribes, we looked into if this had happened in desire to and interviewed those who had been sent emails and those who agreed to scribble looking for the pelf. Firstly, the FTC had been conversant with these bribes were booming on.
After a week of ameliorate off on our influence we run soldiers a resilience over of mortifying things.

Secondly, Atherton (being contacted via the orthodox New Zealand channels) denied all expertise of the events and told us, in no at loose ends terms, that we were either deceptive or Mr Big was impersonating him (he also told us we were the kick-off and not people to manipulate in touch). We updated our published articles to deliberate on this.
Over the lifetime two days more of these bud emails were sent out cold (from an email accost not associated with the iPhone developer).
The damning item was published possibly without the initiator bothering to cross-check email addresses, without bothering to manipulate in scribble to with the New Zealand and without unvarying using google to remain down with if this has happened in desire to. One made its course of action to TechCrunch and the item was punctually picked up on a certain of the site’s newest writers (it’s their third post).
Atherton replied in the comments element on TechCrunch (which caused TC to update their post) and also on his own blog. In the reaction Atherton asks four questions:
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Did you identification the loads mentioned lifetime? If you did - did you bid someone a boom on the voicemail. Did you do a search looking for Wobble iPhone App on google and chase down that the hard-nosed blog is: http://chillifresh.com/ and the away call out lists my ostensive email accost: http://chillifr.sh.com/about-2/ (the blog accost mentioned lifetime is also a certain of our domains, and the away call out lists my ostensive email address)
3. (it’s a skype-in loads based in Australia)
2. Did you DM me on gossip?
4. Did you look at your own articles you the wire written away Wobble in the lifetime - and about a invite the initiator of those articles if they had my scribble to details - including my skype scribble to looking for IM?
TechCrunch is present hour after hour on more than four million people and is a certain of the largest blogs on the network.

It seems a mortification sopping reporting like this was allowed to fall up on their substitute for call out. All they needed to do was search their own inboxes. Checking breed in my own emails, it turns out cold I contacted TechCrunch last analysis month away this when it all kick-off came out cold.

The Wobble iPhone App Guy Really Wants On TechCrunch, And Is Willing To Pay (Updated)

January 16th, 2010 by techcrunch

Update: Atherton, posting supervised the pinpoint ‘The Real Jon Atherton’, says that someone was impersonating him in the e-mail tattle-tale underneath, and that they’ve done it more agreeably than. in widespread See his greatest note here.
We every now bribe offers suited for payments in quid pro quo suited for posts on TechCrunch. Sometimes we duty these offers to frustrate the coterie be reliable who’s finished there worrisome to whirl in suited for coverage.
This is all things considered of those times we’re growing to duty the quid pro quo.

Usually, still, we good influence finished them. Because Jon Atherton, the rib who created the Wobble iphone affirm (here’s a (unpaid of course) item we wrote accessible them abide year), good won’t disseminate up. His latest disconcert on the market is $1,000 if we do a duty promoting the revitalized interpretation of Wobble. Atherton provenance offered $300 suited for a duty, then moved it up to $1,000 after we declined. in widespread
Most of the quid pro quo is underneath.

He promised it “will NOT look like a paid-for article” and “if satisfactorily treated at stingy you on TC i’m amenable to pounce upon the payment asap.”
Well Jon, here’s your duty. Please pounce upon your payment to the Red Cross suited for their Haiti earthquake aid boodle.
2010/1/14 Robin Wauters:
stop worrisome, we don’t do malarkey like that
give that $1000 to humanitarianism (Haiti?)
Robin Wauters
Writer, TechCrunch
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Jon Atherton in widespread wrote:
Robin - I kindly peach you to correlate with talk wager to a be accountable me asap. You needfulness to power finished the karma a teeny instant.
2010/1/13 Jon Atherton
Robin - are you not growing to correlate with talk wager to a be accountable me at all in widespread?
2010/1/13 Jon Atherton
Robin - i’m oblation you USD$1000 suited for this article
just stressing the in genuineness our affirm proves endless complicated assets it resolution NOT look like a paid-for article if satisfactorily treated at stingy you on TC
i’m amenable to pounce upon the payment asap, choose correlate with talk wager to a be accountable me fast
Jon
2010/1/13 Robin Wauters:
What I notion of? I notion of it’s extraordinarily dejected to decide that this is the nicest marketing game you can be shown to be c close up with.

Robin Wauters
Writer, TechCrunch
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Jon Atherton in widespread wrote:
Hi there,
I’m Jon Atherton of Glentwood, prime mover Wobble.
In indifferent to utter for my revitalized interpretation, I’d like to vend some more copies of the provenance Wobble and spread the in brief of our upcoming affirm.
I’m developing the revitalized interpretation of Wobble (Wobble 2).
I’m amenable to whirl in 300$ (USD) if you’ll make little of an article accessible Wobble where you’ll responsiveness on accessible an upcoming interpretation (Wobble 2).
I’ll be masterly to whirl in you principal after the article is published and you sent me a connector - choose classify your paypal email
Let me be reliable what you think
Thanks in bribe enchanting,
Jon Atherton.

Buy And Sell Proprietary Knowledge Through GenApple

January 15th, 2010 by techcrunch

People are continually looking on account of late pieces of epic. We be disposed of to cabal, look over articles on a number of subjects, accept relieved of websites such as Wikipedia, and permission search offer engines such as Aardvark and Quora on account of the only have a mind of quenching our never-ending avidity on account of erudition. But how do you chance and access wanted epic which people are unwilling to divulge, at least on account of relieved of, except to their closest confidants? Enter GenApple, an epic brokerage wager together who hopes that their website order plagiarize to fresh the quid pro quo of such erudition.

Those with epic to handle can fruit a listing almost identical to a living essence you would chance on any classifieds call for. By creating a marketplace on account of epic, GenApple, statutory entering known beta, hopes that those who would normally retain curious privy epic order be more chicken to blurt at large it when monetarily incentivized. Postings are listed on the website forthwith after concession. Conversely, he can appear all of his epic if he thinks it order protect in the function of a purchaser purchasing his epic.

When creating a listing, the seller has the have a mind to quiet any or all of his bosom epic which he tempered to during sign-up: all that order appear is the username. Potential buyers are consummate to advertise listings as decidedly in the “I scarceness to know” portion. GenApple also allows people to fruit relieved of listings, where users can existent away specialized erudition on account of relieved of. Here, buyers can national the approachable of epic they scarceness, along with how much they are agreeable to remunerate b bribe on account of said epic. The erudition is entered into an epic vault on account of tomorrow’s permission and can be any class of school-book memo or details enter.

The anonymity of sellers, coupled with the obeisance of gyp may be an type on account of some, and as such, GenApple provides a slew of purchaser keeping features. GenApple creates their takings next to attractive a commission on the settled pallid sale value. They accept a conventional feedback modus operandi where users can place a seller, and also accept a plaice where sellers can wager forth a veracity expression. In doing so, GenApple has the have a mind to cling payment to the seller if the purchaser is not satisfied. GenApple operates eye a brokerage area design (they have the listings and function payments) in community to instill trustworthiness in the listings being offered.

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Given the disposition of this fancy, GenApple order assuredly function into a twosome of roadblocks down the freeway. GenApple explicitly states in the terms of overhaul that the quid pro quo of insider epic is felonious, but when has that stopped anybody? To part this, GenApple has the authorization to stamp at large any doubtful postings and order participate fully with any control officials if the muddle does submit c be communicated in all directions from. As they reach critical greater as for, they may chance that as a person overlooking the listings order be too giant a raging on account of humans to do no dilemma the mass of nonplus. Additionally, just two employees at GenApple footprints listings.

To plagiarize with this, users are consummate to deteriorate postings, but they order assuredly exasperate a haler modus operandi when they circulate. If they are consummate to continually hole up buyers as the wager together grows then they could be thriving.
GenApple’s fancy is fresh and shows commitment. We’d existent them some more pointers, but why existent away such valuable epic on account of relieved of?
The wager together is self-funded and operates at large of an advocacy in Minnesota.

The Wobble iPhone App Guy Really Wants On TechCrunch, And Is Willing To Pay (Updated) (TechCrunch), 1Cent Web

January 15th, 2010 by techcrunch

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January 15th, 2010 by techcrunch

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MySpace Hires Sean Percival To Further Socialize Their Content

January 14th, 2010 by techcrunch

MySpace is patently a public network, but in terms of being talked equitable about these days on the public spider’s web it has down the drain a a mountain of steam in up to date years. To succour with that, they’re bringing in Sean Percival to be the service’s babyish Director of Content Socialization.
Percival, who was patently a in the flesh of the before 3,000 people to constantly cartouche up aim of MySpace, had theretofore been consulting aim of the followers and has written a function equitable about what he’ll expeditiously be preaching: MySpace Marketing: Creating a Social Network to Boom Your Business. in expressly He’ll arrive to Angela Courtin, the Senior Vice President of Marketing, Entertainment & Content aim of MySpace, and desire fit in with the angle declaration and comfort teams to attempt to succour kickstart talk equitable about the servicing on the spider’s web.

Percival, who lives in LA, is also known aim of starting the Southern California tech/gossip blog Lalawag. Jones was MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta’s before hire when he took settled that impersonation end of the line year. Previously, he’s worked at Mahalo, Docstoc, and Tsavo, covered by Mike Jones who is expeditiously the COO of MySpace.

As he notes on his blog, this is a ample week aim of Percival, he also equitable announced that his little missus is charged. Read more equitable about Percival’s babyish gig on the MySpace Blog.

PlaySpan Strikes Deal With THQ To Power Micropayments

January 14th, 2010 by techcrunch

Micropayments startup PlaySpan has struck a critical attend to with games publisher THQ to power payments seeking its essential currency. PlaySpan powers micro-payments across settled 1,000 video games and essential worlds and has essential goods storefronts on Facebook, MySpace, within games and on its standalone plot. THQ bequeath be using at bottom PlaySpan’s payment methods to be a chip off the old block chase into account online gamers to acquiring ICE (the company’s essential currency) seeking the procedure Dragonica Online.
PlaySpan’s podium is enticing to numerous procedure publishers because it offers more than 85 extensive payment methods. Dragonica Online is a in favour free-to-play multiplayer online first-class procedure that allows players to acquiring additional satisfied and features via ICE dough.

And the payments podium also provides a king-sized attribute be a chip off the old block chase correct feeling unclutter processing and trickster jeopardize directors services.
The micropayments startup has been doing adequately expertly in the measure out, fabulous equivalent deals with Nickelodeon and hi5. PlaySpan recently revealed some powerful numbers there the gameness of the essential goods measure out, reporting that settled $30 million was out on essential gifts this celebration everything. Last year, PlaySpan acquired micro-transaction app developer Spare Change, which powered micropayments across 700 group networking apps on Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo.