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Let’s face it. Everyone who is on Facebook has surely untagged photos of themselves on the social networking site. Many of us are “friends” with bosses, co-workers, clients and business partners; and that photo of you doing tequila shots in Cancun may not go over well with your professional network. Well, how would you feel about a new application that uses facial recognition technology to alert you when a photo of yourself — tagged or untagged — appears on Facebook? Check out this TechCrunch article on the application. Of course, this begs the question: when will there be a Facebook application that focuses on location? Not only targeting where Facebook users are in real-time, but also gives the geo-location of each photo? It’s only a matter of time.

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We stumbled upon a most interesting TechCrunch article about how, thanks to Google Earth, anyone can see where the CIA missile potentially took out the leader of Pakistan’s Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud. The article points out that a decade ago, only those with security clearances would have had access to such satellite imagery. And, thanks to Google Earth, anyone can download it for free and this is speeding up the rate at which the geo-information gap between governments and citizens is closing.

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