A mother who posted her son’s photo with disease later found out that it was a rare and life threatening disease, Kawasaki Disease with the help of her friend on Facebook.

From Deborah's article at Slate.com How Facebook Saved My Son's Life

Deborah Copaken, posted her son’s photo as she gets worried with Leo’s (her son) condition which had not improved after being diagnosed as strep. Little that she knows, it was already a Kawasaki Disease.

Kawasaki disease mostly affects children in Asia particularly Japanese and Korean. But it can affect all ethnic groups and involves inflammation of the blood vessels in the arteries

Kogan posted another picture of the swelling that begun in Leo’s eyes and chin.

Later Deborah received a call from her former neighbor who have seen Leo’s photo, as she told via her post at Slate.com saying

“I hope you’ll excuse me for butting in,” she said, “But you have to get to the hospital. Now.”

According to Stephanie, her former neighbor, her son Max had had the same symptoms and told,

“The longer you wait,” she said, “the worse the damage.”

It is said that Kawasaki disease, Leo Kogan suffered from liver disease that will increase his chances of heart attack later in life, but as of today he is at least feeling much better.

With the help of Facebook, Deborah was very thankful saying

Facebook transformed from my son’s inadvertent lifesaver.

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Facebook’s 750M users is far enough to reach for Google+ who just recently reached 10 million users Tuesday which is currently in Beta version.

Many experts agrees that Google+ users may posibly hit more than twice as today over the weekend. In PCWorld today confirmed that it is merely posible to reached their 20M users estimate.

Ancestry.com creator Paul Allen, estimated about 1.7M users last July 5 in Google+ status and said G+ users already surpassed seven million last weekend.

Idealab’s Bill Gross, founder and CEO of technology incubator supported Allen’s statement in a Google+ post yesterday.

“I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history,” Gross said. ” People are engaging with it like crazy.”

“The next year will tell. Will there be bumps in the road? Sure. Will Facebook and Twitter fight back with more innovation? Of course! But I’m saying that Google+ is already good enough, and the team on Google+ is being so responsive in a way that makes me believe they have a real winner here,” he said in his message.

Tom Anderson, cofounder of MySpace, have been vocal with the early success of Google+ and uses the service for blogging. From his post, he praises Mark Zuckerberg for making video chat available to the leading social networking site.

Not only that MySpace’s Tom Anderson can be seen at Google+, even Facebook CEO himself is using Google+, possibly to check out its features.

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A team of hackers called A Team managed to gather a whole bundle of information that is personal including names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers and posted them online making up all these data being offered for everyone. However, amazingly, their targets were not important companies or government officials, but rather other hackers. A-Team’s desire was to disclose the identities of the Lulz Security group in order to deflate their ego and indirectly aid officials in catching them.

LulzSec Boat, seen from their website

A-Team sneered at the other group in their latest post stating that LulzSec lack the skill to do anything more than go after the low-hanging fruit. Hack attacks that took place in recent weeks against companies such as Sony or websites such as senate. gov raised serious concern regarding the existence of many organized hacker teams. Furthermore, on Monday, another security branch was aimed at the Fox News Twitter page.

Nonetheless, what one doesn’t tacking into account is the fact that the hacking stage is a every man for himself scene with many rival groups and lone wolves fighting for dominion. Lately the member of LulzSec have held the limelight after directing several attack towards the C.I.A., Sony and the Arizona state police. They compromised the personal information of tens of thousands of people, while managing to successfully conceal their identities. As a result they became a very tempting target for other hacking groups that were just as talented as them.

Only at the end of last month, LulzSec announced they planned to dissolve. However the police continue the pursuit of the former groups members and if they are caught there is an important possibility that other hackers led the police to their doorstep.

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Posted from Wikileaks’ website Wikileaks.org, intends to file a case againts the two known credit card companies Visa and Mastercard.

Wikileaks with its credit card processing partner Datacell have just announced their intent to file suit in the EU against the mentioned companies for blocking donations last year.

Paypal also cut-off donations process for Wikileaks the organization last year.

From the post of the whistle-blowing site, Wikileaks told how much they’ve lost and companies who were pressured by Washington not to provide access to money-transfer services.

For six months now, five major US financial institutions, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank of America have tried to economically strangle WikiLeaks as a result of political pressure from Washington. The attack has blocked over 90% of the non-profit organization’s donations, costing some $15M in lost revenue. The attack is entirely outside of any due process or rule of law. In fact, in the only formal review to occur, the US Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy C. Geithner found, on January 12, that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a financial blockade.

Cut-off from donation and money-transfer services were not just one of their problem last year, one of those are being dropped by Amazon its webhost and even lost their domain name Wikileaks.org which then became inaccessible for a quite long time. (I just learned today that their domain just returned.)

Paypal and Amazon was not mentioned in the case filed by Wikileaks.

Whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks holds that the PayPal and Visa blocks count as “anti-competitive” and violate Article 101 (1) and 102 of the EU competition laws, seeking to file a complaint in the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court.

The complaint papers is yet to be filed.

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World of Warcraft (WoW), popular online role-playing game will be offered free up to level 20.

A monthly fee of 8.99 has been taken from players which has about 11.4 million subscribers.

Under the new system of the WoW, players will be able to build an unlimited number of characters but they will not be able to join guilds or accumulate more than ten gold coins.

Blizzard decided to offer free to play to attract new players to the game.

Free bonanza.

World of Warcraft, an MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in which players make characters, that include warriors, warlocks and shaman, who they then take on risky ventures to gather loot and items to make the avatars more powerful.

Blizzard Entertainment, maker of WoW, has previously extended free trials of the game but only for a limited number of days.

The free version will have no time restrictions.

According to Tim Edwards, editor of PC Gamer, estimates that it will offer someone new to the game around 10 to 15 hours of game-play.

“It is a really good offer and will allow people to get a flavor of the world,” he said.

“It is a free-to-play bonanza for gaming right now,” said Mr Edwards.

“Team Fortress 2 went free over last weekend and it tripled its players overnight. If customers like the game it is pretty easy to get them to buy stuff,” he said.

The ‘free’ version of World of Warcraft to the full game will be charged a “conversion fee” of up to 10, depending on the retailer.

More games developers are offering for free as they aim to attract more PC owners to gaming.

WoW also have three expansion packs for it.

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This year may have been the longest battle for the Winklevoss twins and partner Divya Narendra against Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Barely month ago, Winklevoss twins’ appeal was rejected and they decided to drop the case. Parthers’ representative says,

“We’ve considered this case closed for a long time, and we’re pleased to see the other party now agrees.”

Although both sides have settled back in 2008, awarding the Winklevoss and partner with  $20 million in cash and $45 million worth of private Facebook stock at a time the company was valued at $15 billion.  Due to doubts with prices valuing of the company, Winklevoss argues that Facebook concealed information and they should have received more.

Days after the dropped the case, Winklevoss twins filed a new lawsuit against the Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra wants their case heard again after settling $65M in year 2008

Twins claims that Facebook “intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence” during their previous litigation.

Originally, Tyler and Cameron accused Mr Zuckerberg of stealing their idea to create the site.

But in the latest filing, last Thursday with the US District Court of Massachusetts, the Winklevoss twins and partner Divya Narendra said that Facebook hid some crucial information from them during settlement proceedings.

Neel Chatterjee, Facebook’s outside counsel only says:

“These are old and baseless allegations that have been considered and rejected previously by the courts.”

Winklevoss twins said that Mr Zuckerberg did not disclose some important documents in regards to the relationship between him and the brothers while they were at Harvard.

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