For 30 years, Dr. Becker searched for his lost daughter April Becker-Antoniou. He’d hired private investigators, been scammed by people claiming to be his daughter, and spent between $30,000 and $40,000 trying to find her.

Of the many attempts to find her, it was a simple website he’d created in her name that put an end to the thirty year wait.

Five days ago, Antoniou Googled her own name and found the website her father had created.

On the site Dr. Becker wrote:

She emailed him and Dr. Becker said he confirmed her mother’s maiden name, her birthday, middle name and some other specific details only his daughter would know.

On Antoniou’s Facebook page she writes, “you think I could have Googled that 7 years ago and saved myself the yearly torment. But, it all happens when it happens for a reason. I’m still in shock. I was at the point where I just figured I would never meet him. Glad I was wrong. And glad he was actually still looking, after all this time.”

Dr. Becker confirms he will not be seeking a DNA test. “I found my daughter.” Dr. Becker said. “I am finally complete.”

via Daughter finds Father after 30 years…by Googling herself..

Location is quickly becoming all the rage. Twitter has started to attach location to tweets (and a host of applications are expected to soon support the functionality), Foursquare has quickly expanded to new cities, and Loopt continues to expand to new platforms and carriers.

Now, WordPress is getting into the game, by letting bloggers that host their sites on WordPress.com automatically attach their location to individual blog posts. Doing so will also make your post searchable by location, so other users can find blog posts from specific places.

WordPress says that there’s more to come in the way of location features. In a blog post, the company writes, “we’ll gradually roll out more geotagging features, such as showing the location of your commenters, the location of poll votes, a live map view of blog updates on WordPress.com, or an annual report showing you where your posts were written and where your comments came from.”

Although maybe not as likely to spawn offline networking in the real-time way that Twitter and Foursquare can (you still have to write a blog post versus a tweet), attaching location could have interesting implications for searching out blog posts in a specific area, especially when news breaks there. Profiles can also be tagged, so if you want to find other WordPress users in your area, you can.

Do you think attaching location to blog posts will be valuable? Share your thoughts in the comments.

via WordPress Now Knows Where You Are.

Turns out youtube are going to support 1080p HD resolution, 1080p is the shorthand name for a category of HDTV video modes. The number 1080 represents 1,080 lines of vertical resolution. Youtube currently supports 720p which is high definition but once updated to 1080p it will become full high definition, look out for this opition from next week.