Facebook Mobile Carrier Not Supported

So if I can text 32665 from my mobile phone AND receive a message back from Facebook saying that my carrier is not supported, why is my carrier not supported? Obviously they can send SMS to my carrier just fine...

Google Entering the People Search Arena

Google is now directly competing with people search niche sites like Spock, Wink, and PeekYou by offering you control of your online "profile." Instead of linking it to their social network Orkut, they're taking the same approach as the existing people search sites by linking results to existing (third-party) social networking sites. It will be interesting to see how the existing people search sites will react to Google's actions...will they continue to survive?

Double Whammy! Both Technorati and SourceForge Down at Same Time

Technorati has also went down today. Their maintenance page says that they are "currently experiencing backend issues."

SourceForge is Down Today

Has anyone else noticed that Source Forge is down at the moment?

B.Net Fail

The URL shows success, but the page shows "Oops!"

Geni Hack: Prevent the people you invite to your tree from receiving too much Geni-related email

From Geni regular Shmuel Kam: If you DO want to invite people to join the tree, then I have learned (the hard way) that most people are driven away by the many daily emails [Geni] sends. The following is an important technical tip on how to reduce this "spam" in advance. AFTER you have filled in their email address, and pressed the Invite button, go to the URL bar of your browser, and substitute everything to the left of the long number (their profile ID) with the following text, and press Return: http://www.geni.com/account_settings/notifications/ This will take you to THEIR account settings, regarding email notifications. I recommend disabling all of the **daily** emails ONLY (the middle block), and leaving everything else as is. If you disable the lower block, then you pretty much prevent people from being able to use this site to communicate with each other (because they won't be notified about diddly). Do NOT forget to press the Save Button. Once they accepted your invitation and joined, only they will be able to change these settings (via Settings on the top-right of any page). But this might be a bit much for the technically challenged or the elderly.

Indiana Has More Software Engineering Jobs Than All Other Engineering Disciplines Combined, Says Company Data

According to a market survey by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN), software engineering related positions account for 40,000 jobs in the state of Indiana. All other engineering disciplines combined only account for 10,000 jobs in the state. The survey's sources included census data and company estimates. When (non-CSSE) Rose professors were presented with this data, jaws dropped. Now, where should the funding go? How about to expanding CSSE offerings...