Google Street View has come to the UK, and the IT PRO team has already been playing around with it.

First up I did what everybody does - look up our houses and places of work. Then I tried to see if the cars whizzing around London with Google cameras managed to pick up interesting stuff. Our ex-editor Chris Green was doing the same thing -  he managed to find himself on Google Street View!

I decided to have a look around the web and see if there was anything else interesting that Google Street View may have caught.

 1 Woman decides to flash the Google camera car in Chicago

It’s pretty self-explanatory. Hopefully it will a van will never catch me when I’m in weekend drunk mode…

2 A sign that makes no sense in Washington

I guess the only reason why this sign would be up was due to there being a school for deaf children or something.

3 Plastering a car with post-it notes in Florida.

Admit it. This is cool. If I had that many post-it notes I would be all up for doing this.

4 Someone peeing into bushes in Paris.

You would have to zoom in to see this properly. I guess at least he wasn’ t doing a number two. These sightings are probably more common than you might think.

5 Somebody giving the Google Street View car a taste of its own medicine

Say cheese!

6 Another French man peeing in Lille.

Told you. Wonder if French men like being caught peeing by speeding cars with big cameras on its roof.

7 A dead cat

For those Google Street View surfers of a more morbid nature.

 8 A house flipped upside down

My brain is melting…

9 An incredibly skinny Spanish guy

I’m sure this is simply a trick of the camera. Got a frame like one of those Indie dudes I see in Shoreditch with the stupid hats.

10 A French prostitute in Paris

Well I think she’s (or he?) is a hooker with those clothes and the gold boots.

Was also kinda glad that she wasn’t having a pee.

Last Friday Liverpool Street Station was forced to close after a reported 13,000 people congregated to take part in a silent disco, organised using the social networking website Facebook.

With a crowd listening to music through headphones, they all broke into dance at 7pm in a scene imitating a T-Mobile advert that was filmed at the station last month. Police had to close the station for more than an hour due to overcrowding fears, while people partied on with antics including crowdsurfing, stripping and climbing of station furniture.

It isn’t the first time this a flashmob (when a large group of people assemble in a public place and perform an unusual action) has caused a ruckus - the social networking phenomenon has made it possible for a while now. Here are five of the best.

 1 Worldwide Pillow Fight Day

This was the largest pillow fight flashmob ever, taking place on March 22 last year. Over 25 countries took part, including London, New York, Paris and even Shanghai. The rules were self explanatory - in London thousands of people brought a pillow to Leicester Square to whack each other for a good period of time. Yelling “Pillow Fight!” at the top of your voice was a necessity. “If this is your first time at Pillow Fight Club - you have to fight.”

Video of the Pillow Fight Club

2  Leeds and London Hyde Park water fight flashmob

These are up here mainly because they went very wrong. An open invitation on Facebook resulted in thousands of pounds worth of damage to the city’s prize winning public garden. According to the council it resulted in trampled plants,ripped up turf and emptied water features. In July last year one in Hyde Park, London resulted in a girl being punched in the face!

Leeds Water Fight

3  The Rick Astley Rickrolling flashmob

Back in April last year, hundreds of people arranged on Facebook before 6pm at Liverpool Street Station to indulge in a rendition of Rick Astley’s trademark hit “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Some had Rick Astley masks on, and continued with the internet ‘Rickrolling’ trend, where millions of users have been tricked into watching Astley’s 80’s pop video classic.

All together now: “Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you!”

The London Rickmob footage

4 Flashmob - The Opera

The first Flashmob opera of the Orpheus story was performed in October 2004 in Paddington Station, London, one of Britain’s busiest railway stations. It was screened live on BBC Three with the aid of a flashmob. Soloists performed around the concourse, to commuters bemusement. Another was performed in Sheffield in 2005, showing a version of Faust.

5 The Flashmob chicken dance

No explanations are necessary, - just watch this video.

So ISP company TalkTalk are planning to waive the phone and broadband charges of customers having problems in the credit crisis.

Forgive me for being a little cynical, but it’s great publicity isn’t it -an ISP with a heart, thinking about all those poor, starving unemployed people.

If I’ve got this straight- the company is going to forego a £6.49 monthly tarriff for six months. Fantastic. Apart from the £10.50 a month line rental you’ll still need to pay.

And the fact TalkTalk are going to drop you to half the original speed.

Don’t know about you, but do the words “good publicity for doing very little” make sense right about now?

According to security experts, teenage hacking is becoming a real threat when it comes to cyber crime.

Professionals have indicated that forums such as that of Dark Market which was taken down recently, are starting to be populated by teenagers who are looking to swap credit card data as well as the hacking and phishing kits which is used to collect it.

As these teenagers are not as well trained as professionals who may well do this for a living, they are more likely to get caught as well as pick up a criminal record, which will really hurt them if further down the line, they want to have a career in IT.

The first steps are simply to look for cracks and exploits for computer games, for example to run computer games which they haven’t paid for. Although many kids do this, it is nevertheless illegal.

Then it is likely they’ll graduate to more serious crime, such as swapping programs and malicious data, and further on targeting social networking sites with exploits and virus code.

IT PRO talked to Billy Hoffman at RSA Europe, who works in

New research by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) indicated that three quarters (77 per cent) of adult UK internet users who found pictures of online sex abuse did not know who to report it to.

The survey also said that 71 per cent of those surveyed indicated that online sex abuse images was their biggest concern about the internet.

To change this state of affairs the IWF are trying to publicise its national reporting service and so reduce the amount of illegal images and video which is online.

Chief executive Peter Robbins said that the UK had a very proactive approach to tackling child sexual abuse content online but that the public could do even more.

Around nine out of ten (86 per cent) of broadband users do not understand the limit of their services, according to uSwitch.com.

There are a total of 13.7 million customers who either wrongly believe that they have an unlimited broadband service or do not know what their limit is. In the last year one million consumers nearly reached or exceeded their usgae limits in the last year alone.

The only provider that has launched an unlimited service is Sky which has removed a fair usgae policy, but more than half (56 per cent) or broadband providers are using unlimited in their promotion yet still enforcing limits.

Broadband usage is growing in this country. Applications such as the BBC iPlayer and Channel’s 4oD is gobbling up bandwidth. However users still run the risk of having their services limited, suspended or terminated if they go over usage limits.

Tim Wolfenden said that suppliers shouldn’t class their packages as unlimited if they were not. He said: “With so much reliance on broadband, having the service disconnected could feel to someone as serious as having their electricity cut off.

He added: “As providers aren’t choosing to be fully transparent about this ussue, people need to be savvy when choosing their broadband packages and pay close attention to the small print.”

Strangely the Advertising Standards Authority allows providers to describe services as unlimited even if there is a fair usage cap, as long as it is in the small print. Most consumers aren’t going to do this though.

According to the NSPCC, three out of four children have since images on the ‘internet’ that have disturbed them.

The poll has renewed calls for the computer software manufacturers to make sure they install security which will stop children seeing this explicitly violent or sexual activity.

Policy advisor Zoe Hilton said: