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Have Any of Your Facebook Friends Been Arrested?

Want to find out if someone got arrested? There’s a Facebook app for that.

Arrestly, which debuted in beta earlier this week, allows Facebook users to choose five people to monitor, free-of-charge, and should any of those people get hauled to the hoosegow, users are alerted via email and text message.

Of course, way less than one percent of Facebook’s population gets arrested, and that comes right from Arrestly’s Chief Executive Officer Matt Steckler. Last year, 15 million people were arrested in the U.S.

We’d asked him why he sees a market for such an application given the tiny proportion of social networkers actually get cuffed. He replied:

Imagine having a babysitter that you trust, then makes a terrible mistake (gets a DUI), but doesn’t tell you. Or your parents are in a convalescent home, you want to make sure the people taking care of them are not arrested for assault, fraud, etc. We want you people to be able to be informed about the people around them. With Arrestly, you can also monitor people outside your friends list by adding people manually.

On of our main goals is to provide continuous criminal background checks for people that participate in peer-to-peer marketplaces, such as AirBnB, TaskRabbit, and other services where people are service providers. Down the road, we will have a service that aggregates data from these services, to become a trust and verification provider.

We think he needs to add that to the promotional writing on the Arrestly website. It now reads:

Arrestly is an informational service that works by scouring the Web for real-time arrest and booking information from nearly every county jail facility in the U.S. Arrestly will inform you immediately when someone you are watching is arrested and booked into jail.

Readers, would you want to sign up for something like Arrestly?

Facebook Messenger Needs Serious Improvement

Facebook loves to launch new applications, test them, get feedback, and iterate quickly. But I think the company’s latest group texting app needs improvement.

Don’t get me wrong; the strategic opportunity for Facebook to power all of your personal messages is endless. It’s the same reason Google wants to track your personal communication through the company’s Huddle group texting application.

This is probably why virtually every other publication I’ve read gave the product rave reviews. It makes no sense however that Facebook would start off with an application that sends incoherent messages to your close contacts.

Check out the screenshot below showing a conversation that came out of testing the application.

I decided to send a message to three close contacts, none of which were identifiable to the other individuals. Instead, variously formatted phone numbers were sent to them along with an awkwardly formatted message.

The result was that one person replied hours later after finally realizing that I had actually sent them a message. Alright, formatting text messages properly is something that all group texting companies wrestle with so I’ll forgive Facebook for their horrendous first attempt.

At least things work smoothly in the app, right? Nope. Take a look at the next screenshot.

I sent out a message to a bunch of people, one of which is listed at the top of the app. Then I get a message back from one person but I don’t know who it is because it’s just their phone number.

If there’s one thing that’s key to effective communication, it’s knowing who you are communicating with, something that this application is so far incapable of accomplishing.

It seems to me that Facebook decided to rush out an application with fewer capabilities than those found in Beluga, the acquired company that’s supposed to be powering the group texting.

I’m sure things will evolve for the better over the coming weeks and months. But in the meantime, you might want to hold off on making this the center of your personal messaging.

Readers, what do you think about Facebook Messenger?

Facebook Fixes Chat — All Better Now?

Facebook has just improved its chat. The service now defaults to showing the friends you talk to the most.

Here’s how the company explains the upgrade:

After we made changes to Facebook chat a few weeks ago, we got a lot of feedback that people missed seeing all of their online friends. Today, we made a change so that chat now shows the friends who you message the most, as well as the rest of your friends who are currently online.

We dig how Facebook continues to revise features, but wonder whether all the site’s users will feel the same way about the chat upgrade.

Readers, do you think the revamped chat is an improvement?

Mighty American Corporate World

Nations without Borders: MIGHTY AMERICAN CORPORATE WORLD

MIGHTY AMERICAN CORPORATE WORLD

If Wal-Mart were a country, its revenues would make it on par with the GDP of the 25th largest economy in the world by, surpassing 157 smaller countries. 
We've found 25 major American corporations whose 2010 revenues surpass the 2010 Gross Domestic Product of entire countries, often with a few billion to spare. 
Even some major countries like Norway, Thailand, and New Zealand can be bested by certain U.S. firms.

 

Yahoo is bigger than Mongolia

Mongolia's GDP: $6.13 billion 
Yahoo's Revenue: $6.32 billion
Yahoo would rank as the world's 138th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Visa is bigger than Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's GDP: $7.47 billion 
Visa's Revenue: $8.07 billion
Zimbabwe would rank as the world's 133rd biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

eBay is bigger than Madagascar

Madagascar's GDP: $8.35 billion 
eBay's Revenue: $9.16 billion
Ebay would rank as the world's 129th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Nike is bigger than Paraguay

Paraguay's GDP: $18.48 billion 
Nike's Revenue: $19.16 billion
Nike would rank as the world's 102nd biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Consolidated Edison is bigger than the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo's GDP: $13.13 billion 
ConEdison's Revenue: $13.33 billion
ConEdison would rank as the world's 112th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

McDonald's is bigger than Latvia

Latvia's GDP: $24.05 billion 
McDonald's Revenue: $24.07 billion
McDonald's would rank as the world's 92nd biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Amazon.com is bigger than Kenya

Kenya's GDP: $32.16 billion 
Amazon.com's Revenue: $34.2 billion
Amazon would rank as the world's 86th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Morgan Stanley is bigger than Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan's GDP: $38.99 billion 
Morgan Stanley's Revenue: $39.32 billion
Morgan Stanley would rank as the world's 82nd biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Cisco is bigger than Lebanon

Lebanon's GDP: $39.25 billion 
Cisco's Revenue: $40.04 billion
Cisco would rank as the world's 81st biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Pepsi is bigger than Oman

Oman's GDP: $55.62 
Pepsi's Revenue: $57.83 billion
Pepsi would rank as the world's 69th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Apple is bigger than Ecuador

Ecuador's GDP: $58.91 billion 
Apple's Revenue: $65.23 billion
Apple would rank as the world's 68th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Microsoft is bigger than Croatia

Croatia's GDP: $60.59 billion 
Microsoft's Revenue: $62.48 billion
Microsoft would rank as the world's 66th biggest economy.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Costco is bigger than Sudan

Sudan's GDP: $68.44 billion 
Costco's Revenue: $77.94 billion
Costco would rank as the world's 65th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Proctor and Gamble is bigger than Libya

Libya's GDP: $74.23 billion 
Proctor and Gamble's Revenue: $79.69 billion
Proctor and Gamble would rank as the world's 64th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Wells Fargo is bigger than Angola

Angola's GDP: $86.26 billion 
Wells Fargo's Revenue: $93.249 billion
Wells Fargo would rank as the world's 62nd biggest economy.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Ford is bigger than Morocco

Morocco's GDP: $103.48 billion 
Ford's Revenue: $128.95 billion
Ford would rank as the world's 60th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Bank of America is bigger than Vietnam

Vietnam's GDP: $103.57 billion 
Bank of America's Revenue: $134.19 billion
Bank of America would rank as the world's 59th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

General Motors is bigger than Bangladesh

Bangladesh's GDP: $104.92 billion 
GM's Revenue: $135.59 billion
GM would rank as the world's 58th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Berkshire Hathaway is bigger than Hungary

Hungary's GDP: $128.96 billion 
Berkshire Hathaway's Revenue: $136.19 billion
Berkshire Hathaway would rank as the world's 57th biggest economy.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

General Electric is bigger than New Zealand

New Zealand's GDP: $140.43 billion 
GE's Revenue: $151.63 billion
GE would rank as the world's 52nd biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Fannie Mae is bigger than Peru

Peru's GDP: $152.83 billion 
Fannie mae's Revenue: $153.83 billion
Fannie Mae would rank as the world's 51st biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Conoco Phillips is bigger than Pakistan

Pakistan's GDP: $174.87 billion 
Conoco Phillip's Revenue: $184.97 billion
Conoco Phillips would rank as the world's 48th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Chevron is bigger than the Czech Republic

Czech Republic's GDP: $192.15 billion 
Chevron's Revenue: $196.34 billion
Chevron would rank as the world's 46th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Exxon Mobil is bigger than Thailand

Thailand's GDP: $318.85 billion 
Exxon Mobil's Revenue: $354.67 billion
Exxon Mobil would rank as the world's 30th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF 

Walmart is bigger than Norway

Norway's GDP: $414.46 billion 
Walmart's Revenue: $421.89 billion
Norway would rank as the world's 25th biggest country.
Source: Fortune/CNN Money, IMF

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A True Love story with happy ending

A boy and a girl were in love. When the girl's father came to know about their love, he did not like it at all, and so began to protest about it. Now it happened that the two lovers decided to leave their homes for a happy future. The girl's father started searching for the two lovers but could not find them . At last, he accepted their love and asked them to come back home thru a local newspaper. Her father said "If you both come back I will allow you to marry the guy you love, I accept that you loved each other truly." So in this way, their love won and they returned home. The couple next day went to town to shop for the wedding dress. He was dressed in a white shirt that day. While he was crossing the road to the other side to get some drinks for his wife, a car came and hit him and he died on the spot. The girl was devastated and lost her senses. It was only after sometime that she recovered from her shock. The funeral and cremation was the very next day because he had died horribly. Two nights later, the girl's mother had a dream in which she saw an old lady. The old lady asked her mother to wash the blood stains of the guy from her daughter's dress as soon as possible. But her mother ignored the dream. The next night her father had the same dream , he also ignored it. Then the girl had the same dream the next night, she woke up in fear and told her mother about the dream. Her mother asked her to wash the clothes with the blood stains immediately. She washed the stains but some remained. Next night she again had the same dream. She again washed the stains but some still remained. But again the next night she had the same dream and this time the old lady gave her a last warning to wash the blood stain, or else something terrible would happen. This time the girl tried her best to wash the stains, and the clothes nearly tore, but some stains still remained. She was very tired. In the late evening the same day while she was alone at home, someone knocked on the door. When she opened the door she saw the same old lady of her dream standing at her door. She got very scared and fainted. The old lady woke her up... and gave her a blue object, which shocked the girl. She asked "What is this....?" The old lady replied... ... ... . ... ... ... .... ... "This is Nirma Washing Powder" "Washing powder nirma,Washing powder nirma Doodh si safedi nirma se aaye, Rangeen kapde bhi khil khil jaye, sabki pasand nirma Washing powder nirma,Washing powder nirma.Nirma" 10 ka 1, do pe ek free I know how you all are feeling now.... I have been through this too. I'm also hunting for the idiot who mailed this to me keep smiling !!!!!!

Friends never change! :)

 

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