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Facebook Going To Save Lives By Letting You Donate Organs (Video)

Leo Xavier — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:08:12 +0000

For many people Facebook is a way to share your life via digital communication, but now you may be able to share your life more literally. A new Facebook tool unveiled by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Good Morning America has “the power to save lives” by letting users donate organs.

The company has revealed that they will allow users to state on their Timeline that they are registered to donate their organs after death. You will be able to reveal which state you have registered in, the date that you registered, and also explain why you decided to become a donor. And those of you who haven’t registered as a donor will be able to do so via the links added by Facebook.

According to Facebook, “With the addition of “organ donor” to the Life Events section of timeline, you can state your intention to become an organ donor, and share your story about when, where or why you decided to become a donor. If you are not officially registered as an organ donor, sign up with the appropriate registry”.

This is certainly an interesting move by Facebook, and it is also probably not what most people had in mind about what was coming. And of course patients have been using the social networking site to find donors for some time now, but the new feature will most likely become popular quickly and dramatically increase the number of registrations.

Facebook says that the new feature will only be available in some countries at first, like the US and UK, but will be rolled out to other areas around the world later on.

Check out the video to know more about the new tool.

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Google Street View Adds Time Machine: Japan’s Visual Tsunami Timeline

Alexander Udalov — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:40:39 +0000

Google’s mobile vehicles drove 44,000 km to make panoramic 360 degrees images of areas in Northeastern Japan that were affected by the March 11, 2011 Tsunami.

The tragic imagery is now available through Street View mode in Google Maps. Moreover, the same imagery is also available at a special website called “Memories for the Future” (“Build the Memory” mentioned in Google blog was obviously a working title). All the views include date stamps now, so in the bottom left corner of each image you’ll also see a month and year that tells you when a particular photograph was taken. When looking at images of the magnificent cities side-by-side with images of the ruins left in their place, this additional context demonstrates how truly life-changing this tragedy has been for those who live there and witnessed the destruction of their homes, neighborhoods and even entire districts. This time stamp feature has been the most requested Street View feature for the last few years, and it is now available on Street View imagery worldwide. Professionals such as historians, architects, city planners and tourism boards—as well as regular users including travelers and home-buyers—can now get a sense of how fresh the online photos are for a locations that interests them.

Together with the “time machine” imagery, virtual travelling via Street View from deep inland to the Northeastern shores of Japan can show you how the idyllic countryside changes dramatically, becoming cluttered with mountains of rubble and debris as you get closer to the ocean. In the cities, buildings that once stood proud are now empty spaces. They are facts of life and history everyone should be aware of.

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Loytr Releases A New Timeline Facebook App For iPad

Andrew Grush — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:49:45 +0000

In September, Facebook unveiled its newest reinvention of the user profile system, Timelines. The feature is still in beta and offers a much more personal feel that allows you to feature your favorite photos, add widgets showcasing such things as your most-recently listened to song, and other features designed to take the Facebook profiles to an enhanced level.

Now Loytr, the developer behind the popular MyPad for Facebook app, has decided to take Timelines to a new level with his iPad app dedicated to browsing through these new profiles. The program is called Timelines for Facebook. Loytr tends to focus on apps that add improved tablet functions to popular social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ for the iPad and generally tend to do very well. Will Timeline for Facebook fare as well as his other apps? It certainly looks like it has potential.

The free app is essentially just a frame around Facebook’s website, which seems to be fairly common for a lot of these kind of iPad apps, but it has a few unique features that certainly make it worth looking at. With Timeline for Facebook you can easily browse through your contact’s timeline profiles in random order or alphabetically. The app also adds cool looking page transitions between profiles that emulates the turning of a page in book.

Timelines is a unique approach for Facebook, and Loytr’s new app is a great way to make the most of it on your iPad.

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