If you’ve seen The Social Network, you’ll know that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg originally created Facemash, a ‘HotOrNot’ tool that compiled the online “facebooks” of nine houses at Harvard University and allowed students to choose which was the hotter person. To create the tool, Zuckerberghacked into sensitive areasof his university’s computer networks and copied the private ID images of residents, attracting 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in the first four hours online....

Do you like podcasts? Here at The Next Web, we love them; as you probably know, we even have a couple of our own, with ourDaily DoseandTNW Sessions. But what about other sources around the world? Well, it turns out that there are also interesting tech- and startup-related shows coming out of Latin America. Here are five podcasts in Spanish and Portuguese that you should definitely try out. If neither of these is your mother tongue, listening to them could also be a great way to improve your language skills!...

It’s remarkable the length some customers will go to praise their favorite brands. Shouldn’t it work the other way around? Well, not always. Branded video platformVideoGeniehas today announced that their service has served up more than 5 million views of user-generated content that promotes brands, an important milestone. Brands load VideoGenie onto their site, and can prompt their customers to record a video with their webcam. Once videos have been uploaded and approved, brands can publish the clips they like, and the creators are free to share the clips on their blogs through Facebook, Twitter and on various social networks....

Today is Labor Day in the U.S., which among other things means that the kiddies will be heading back to school tomorrow, there’s a slight fall chill in the air (if you live in San Francisco, at least), and we’re looking at a rip-roaring season of college football. This weekend was the opening game of the season, and we’ve already seen some pretty sweet gameplay. Last season’s champions, Auburn are holding onto the top spot, witha 42-38 win over Utah State, and from now until January, expect weeks of action-packed nights and Saturday mornings, as teams from across the nation compete to seize theBCS Championshipfrom them....

According to theBBC, five men have been arrested in connection with the recent attacks by online collective ‘Anonymous’ which targeted websites claimed to be acting against the Wikileaks whistleblowing site. The men were picked up from addresses in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London this morning, charged with a connection of offenses under the Computer Misuse Act. The attacks, which were organised by an online collective called ‘Anonymous’ targetted a number of websites that withdrew their services from Wikileaks, many of them banking or payment companies includingVisa,MastercardandPayPal....