Pascal Van Hecke

"WikiLeaks is releasing over half a million US national text pager intercepts. The intercepts cover a 24 hour period surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. [...] Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting faults at investment banks inside the World Trade Center" - Pascal Van Hecke

Local police creates fake account of hot young blonde to spy for underage drinking... “Law enforcement has to evolve with technology,” Iverson said. “It has to happen. It is a necessity —not just for underage drinking.” Social networking sites are used to catch sexual predators as well, he noted. But Bauer said, “I think there are a lot worse things (police) could be spending their time on.” The photos officers found were of him, his roommates and a couple friends hanging out at his house, Bauer said. “We were actually trying to be safe and not go out on the town and get crazy,” he said. - Pascal Van Hecke

The EU at its best: totally ambiguously formulated directive being interpreted in totally contradicting ways: "IAB Europe said that the 'preamble' to the law underlines its case. "The law now clarifies that websites can rely on browser controls and similar applications to define the acceptance of cookies""... "It says users have to give consent to cookies 'having been provided with' information. I don't see how that's anything other than prior consent." - Pascal Van Hecke

"features include document management, contact management, e-mail, project management, and time management. Text documents and presentations can be created and edited online. Files can be uploaded, organized and shared, independent of file formats. Organization of the information in OpenGoo is done using workspaces and tags. The application presents the information stored using different interfaces such as lists, dashboards and calendar views." "OpenGoo uses PHP, JavaScript, AJAX (ExtJS) and MySQL technology, started as a degree project at the faculty of Engineering of the University of the Republic, Uruguay. " - Pascal Van Hecke

Userscript for Twitter.com that shows the retweeter's avatar prominently and the source's avatar as an inset. It is probably inspired on the way Twhirl handles @replies (the avatar replied to is shown as an inset there). I wish Twitter implemented this natively so applications would handle the avatars the same way. - Pascal Van Hecke

For-pay people search engine. US-targeted. Pretends to search family trees, criminal history, court records, bankruptcy data and all kinds of data extracted from social networks. - Pascal Van Hecke

Resource on Linkedin API (Widgets and REST). - Pascal Van Hecke