The real identity of Vancouver’s famous and rare kissing couple is now uncovered

In the age of social networking site Twitter and Facebook, it was not a matter of time before the world learned the identities of the kissing couple from that now-iconic photo of the Vancouver riots in Canada.

In the midst of the chaos on Vancouver's street-sin Canada last Wednesday night, it appears a very little romance broke out.
And this real photo showing,a young man and woman lying on the street, kissing, seemingly oblivious to the baton-wielding riot duty police and mayhem around them — became an online sensation Thursday.

Some were fell better cheering the couple on,others people said it was staged, and only a few questioned just how much consensual the moment was.
A blogger writer on Esquire even called it freely "the greatest photo from Wednesday night, and maybe ever."

There were also some slap shots at the Canucks, whose abysmal Game 7 performance provided the context, or at least the excuse, for the riot and subsequent romantic interlude moment.
"At least someone from Vancouver Canada can score on the road!" tweeted one observer.
The freelance photographer Rich Lam snapped this picture-perfect moment reminiscent, one writer noted that, of a modern day version of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss for photo agency Getty.

He told the Post media News on Thursday that when he get shot a few quick frames, he thought someone had been very hurt and was lying in the street Vancouver.

"I'm really surprised because I didn't really see what I really had until after I gave my memory cards (to an editor on our site) and when someone said 'oh,very nice picture of the couple kissing,'" said Lam, who was already doing several media interviews about snapped his photo Thursday.
"I was really like, 'Oh my God, they're making out.' Here I thought she was hurt and kind of had a sympathetic guy . . . but they're making out,again oh my God."

All photo has also surfaced,showing that what appears to be the same couple from above with others standing around them,when fueling speculation the moment was set up.

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A female Joanne Fraill Juror in Facebook contempt prosecution after 'contacting defendant during trial'

juror will stand trial this week accused of contempt of court after she allegedly sent messages to a defendant through Facebook, causing a multi-million pound drug trial to collapse.

In a British legal first, Joanne Fraill, 40, will be prosecuted for allegedly exchanging messages on the social networking site with Jamie Sewart, one of the defendants she had been trying.

Prosecutors will claim Mrs Fraill allegedly chatted online to Mrs Sewart, who had been acquitted in the case, while verdicts on other trials were still being discussed.
Mrs Sewart, 34, also faces contempt proceedings because she is alleged to have asked Mrs Fraill, of Blackley, Manchester, for details of the jury's deliberations.

Mrs Frail, who denies the charges, is also accused of using the internet to research the case against the judge’s orders. The pair could face jail if found guilty.
Dominic Grieve, the Attorney-General who will open the case at the High Court on Tuesday, will argue their actions cause a major drugs trial to collapse, leaving taxpayers facing a bill of more than £6million.

The first juror to be prosecuted for contempt of court for using the internet has been jailed for eight months, after her online activities led to a retrial in a multi-million pound drugs case.

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World fomous social networking site Twitter is the new Facebook

Following a whirlwind week and a half of product announcements, you can throw Twitter's attempts to differentiate itself as an "social information network" out the window -- there is little doubt about the company is now entrenched in very serious competition now with Facebook for get the much grander social networking crown.
After this announcing that it would finally be bringing native photo and video sharing to its service on June 1, Twitter's biggest product win to-date came on Tuesday, when Apple announced that latest iOS 5 would include with deep Twitter integration.
That means that the 200 million more people with iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices (or at least the tens of millions able to the upgrade to iOS 5) will have the ability to do this things like post photos, videos and links to Twitter with a one single tap.
Application developers will also be able to add this type of functionality to their iOS
applications, further accelerating the impact of the partnership.In summarizing the significance of that, my Mashable colleague Jennifer Van Grove wrote, "[Twitter] will soon be the social layer of iOS, enabling users to turn individual actions such as snapping a photo or reading an article into instant social activities."
For Facebook, who has long positioned itself as the social graph of the Web (and in turn mobile), that's a big blow.
Sure,
application developers can still build Facebook integration into their iOS apps, but by making Twitter the default in apps like Camera,

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