Tag: TWITPIC

Ever wonder how easy it would be for someone to track your every move? You can now find out with a new app called 'Creepy.' Created by 26-year-old Yiannis Kakavas, 'Creepy' is a software package that allows users to pinpoint anyone's location, using geographic data embedded within shared photos. All you have to do is type in a person's Twitter or Flickr username, and hit the 'Geolocate ...

Share Charlie Sheen has, to put it politely, gone off the rails. And, as tabloid-loving Americans, we can't turn away from this train wreck, who seems to be taking every opportunity put himself in the spotlight. After several recent, soon-to-be infamous radio and television interviews, Sheen took his quest to never shut up to the next logical venue: Twitter. His debut on the microblogging ...

To celebrate the 2010 NFL season's kickoff (and to deflect attention from the NCAA sanctions he brought on his alma mater USC), Reggie Bush is giving away free stuff via social-networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Stickybits. Reggie Bush #RedZones, which began earlier this week and ends today, leads fans on a scavenger hunt for eight autographed footballs hidden across the city ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Despite Twitter's firmly established place among the Web's elite, saying that Facebook dominates social networking in terms of market share still remains a massive understatement. The micro-blogging service has steadily incorporated new themes to strengthen its capabilities, though, most recently in a new Twitpic face-tagging ...

Every generation has it: the record being usurped by the portable 8-track; the movie theater replaced by the bootleg DVD; and now, rich film photography surpassed by digital (and then further bastardized by the ubiquitous cell phone camera). Sure, the kids all take winky-eyed pics and post them on their Facebooks, but when Vogue Italia and the photographer of the last 20 years, Steven Meisel, team ...

Meghan McCain, daughter of Republican 2008 Presidential candidate John McCain, has stirred quite a firestorm over a photo of herself she recently posted to her Twitter account. In a Tweet documenting her "spontaneous night in," McCain linked to a photo of herself wearing a black, push-up tank top and a sly smile, while holding up a copy of Andy Warhol's biography in front of the camera. The ...

Twitpic accounts belonging to celebrities like Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres have been hacked, according to various reports. Hackers apparently posted false information via the compromised accounts, most notably claiming that Britney Spears had died. Spears was announced dead after hackers took over her Twitpic account (discovered yesterday), no doubt inspired by the maelstrom of recent ...