Electric Pocket has launched a cool product for Blackberry. It’s a utility/program that offers speed dialing via your contact pictures. To dial a number you flip through the photos much like you’d select cover art in iTunes. The photos can be stored on your Blackberry, storage card or even pulled from your Facebook account. There is a special Facebook integration that can automatically add your crazy friends’ picture from their account as a speed dial photo.

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If you know anything about me, you know I’m lazy. L-a-a-a-a-z-y. Brush my teeth while standing at the urinal watching SportsCenter lazy. I prefer to call myself a multi-tasker.

So I was impressed when I found out from the good people at www.tekzen.net that they’ve come up with another alternative for people like myself who don’t want to go to the trouble of typing in long url’s into their blog posts and Twitter Tweets. The product was developed by a friend of mine, Jackson Miller. True to his mission, Jackson has shortened his professional name to “Jaxn.” You gotta like his consistency of message.

So what makes urlzen.com better than the leader in the concatenation space, tinyurl.com? Find out after the jump:

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A team from the BBC successfully stole personal information from four Facebook users via a small application like those you can install on the popular website.
Facebook has grown to be a very popular social networking site and one of its interesting feature are small applications that can be games, quizzes, etc. The BBC team programed one such application to mine data aptly named Miner.

Spencer Kelly is a presenter for the BBC show Click and he explained that Miner “in the background, it is collecting personal details, and those of the users’ friends, and e-mailing them out of Facebook, to our inbox When you add an application, unless you say otherwise, it is given access to most of the information in your profile. That includes information you have on your friends even if they think they have tight security settings”

Apparently, Facebook reacted by saying they are always working to secure the site and are monitoring the applications. I guess whatever they are doing is just not cutting it.

Link: BBC Facebook ID Theft Video
Link: Identity “at risk” on Facebook