To sensitize people on this matter, in a very unorthodox way, Forthehack has created Please Rob Me. Please Rob Me basically tracks and lists down information that people post on social networking sites about their leave from home.

Though Please Rob Me’s practice is quite unethical, at the bottom of it all, it serves to make people realise the trouble they are putting themselves into by unveiling their privacy on the web.

Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! : ) More soon, send your ?s

This first live tweet from space was made possible due to a major software upgrade by NASA that was carried out during this past week. Astronauts working on the International Space Station now have direct access to the Web via a wireless internet connection. Prior to this, they had to email down their tweets to Earth and those were posted to their Twitter accounts by Earth-based staffs. Those were obviously not live tweets.

Astronauts assigned to the International Space Station previously had access to emails, video conferencing and Protocol phone calls, they can now add surfing the web to that list. However it is to be pointed out that they are expected to respect the same Internet use policies that are imposed on other government employees.

When Did You Join Twitter is pretty simple to use. You only have to correctly type you Twitter username and the age of your account is given to you. You will get to find the date on which you created your Twitter account and it will also specify the age of your account in terms of days! You can also tweet the result directly from the page.

When Did You Join Twitter is a project by Neville Ridley-Smith, an Australian coder who is the creator of yet another Twitter-related webpage, How Often Do You Tweet which gives you the frequency of your tweets in terms of time lapse and average number.

When Did You Join Twitter and How Often Do You Tweet are arguably two not very essential services but they sure provide some answers to the inquisitive “twitter”.

Images: screenshots of Whendidyoujointwitter.com and Howoftendoyoutweet.com

Prism has been designed to provide a better environment for running our preferred web-based applications. For instance, applications like Gmail, Facebook and Google Docs which were usually browser-run can be accessed right from the desktop using Prism.

This prevents the hassle of having to switch between tabs on a web browser or the risk of having an entire browser crash or slowed down due to an unstable application.

Prism can be installed either as a Firefox extension or as a standalone application.

I mostly use standalone Prism to run Twitzap, a Twitter client and to access my Gmail account as those are the applications that I want to run right from my desktop instead of opening a web browser to get to them.

The thing with Prism is that it should not be used as a browser. It is not a substitute for web browsers. It does not enable users to click on links and to keep on browsing, that is the task of a web browser really. Instead you get to stay on a single web page. One on which you usually don’t click any further. Any external link on Prism would be opened on your default web browser. That is one of the limitations of Prism and that is also one factor that makes it stand out from a web browser.

To get Prism – Get started

So you own a blog or website and do not wish to manually post the link to your updates to your Twitter account? That’s not a problem really, with Twitterfeed.

Twitterfeed automatically posts your updates to your own Twitter account. Your update-tweet could as well be a link to your latest Flickr upload or latest Last.fm listened to music track; the possibilities are infinite and Twitterfeed does it all.

All you need to do on your side is to register on Twitterfeed and to provide the feed URL of the webpage of which you want to post updates. It’s as simple as that. Your followers will then get real-time tweets of your latest updates. Now ain’t that wonderful?

Just follow the instructions and you’ll get there in no time.