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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog Auto-Login to Facebook With Your Google or Yahoo Account May 31, 2009 at 9:57 am You can now link both your Google Account (including Gmail) and Yahoo ID with your Facebook profile. The advantage of linking you other online accounts with Facebook is that if you are signed-in into any of the above services, you’ll automatically be logged into Facebook as well. So for example, if you working in Google Docs or writing scraps in Orkut and then decide to open Facebook in another tab, you won’t see the Facebook sign-in screen anymore. To set up this association between Facebook and Yahoo/Google Accounts, just go to Facebook -> Accounts Settings and click "Add a new linked account". Facebook lets you link only one account per web service so choose the ID that you use most frequently on the web. Related: Managing Multiple Google Accounts Auto-Login to Facebook With Your Google or Yahoo Account - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS) The Ban on WordPress Blogs in China Is Unlikely to Be Lifted May 31, 2009 at 7:21 am China has the highest number of Internet users in the world along with a booming economy and that explains why American web companies like Yahoo, Google and Microsoft co-operate wholeheartedly with the Chinese government in implementing internet censorship there. For instance, Google shows a different set of search results in China to keep the communists happy, Microsoft is known to block blog entries that contain banned keywords while Yahoo has been accused of helping Beijing arrest an innocent journalist by providing details of his personal email account. While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies - US Congress to Yahoo. But there are exceptions. Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress blogging software, faced a similar moral dilemma in 2006 when China suddenly blocked access to all WordPress.com blogs inside the mainland. Matt told AFP that ban on WordPress in China could have been lifted had he agreed to block certain words or topics and give up information to the Chinese communist government about [WordPress] users. I started thinking about the DNA of the company. That sort of company is not one I would wake up every day and feel passionate about working in. Unlike other giants, WordPress took a more ethical stand refusing to comply with the Chinese diktats and WP blogs therefore still remain blocked in China. The situation is likely to stay the same forever unless China relaxes their censorship laws which again sounds like a remote possibility. Also see: How is WordPress Making Money Some workarounds The advantage with blogs is that they all provide RSS feeds so you can easily read any blog using a web based feed readers even if the main WordPress site is blocked. In case of WordPress blogs, you can append the string ".nyud.net" to the blog URL and it should open just fine. For instance, if the main blog is located at labnol.wordpress.com, you can access a mirror image of this site from labnol.wordpress.com.nyud.net. If that doesn’t solve the problem, here are some more ways to access blocked sites. Wordpress.com blogs now support "post by email" so Chinese bloggers can publish new content on WordPress blogs using any of the email programs. The Ban on WordPress Blogs in China Is Unlikely to Be Lifted - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS) The Wonders of Facebook and Google May 31, 2009 at 1:40 am There are four characters in this true story - father, mother, son and a daughter. When their marriage broke down, the father took away his son with him to another country though he was just three years old at that time. That incident happened some 27 years ago and the mother has been searching for her son ever since. One day, the couple’s daughter, who stays with her mother, typed the name of her "lost" brother into Google and came across a link to some Facebook profile that had the same name as her brother. She sent a message to that Facebook user and, as luck would have it, he was her brother. The family was reunited through Facebook and Google after some 30 years. BBC has a video of the reunion while The Sun has more details on how the family members traced their lost son. Related: Pipl - People Search The Wonders of Facebook and Google - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS)   This email was sent to xfeedr@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.