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Since November last year, 93,788 Twitter users - who thought their micro-blogging updates were private and protected - were being silently snooped upon.
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Getty Images' vast library of award-winning professional photographs and illustrations is now at the disposal of every WordPress.com blogger.
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Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable, gearing up to announce its earnings any minute now, also has some other news: the company has acquired Ness.. Restaurant reservation platform OpenTabletoday reported quarterly earnings of $52.3 million and used the day to put out some other news: the company has acquiredNess Computing, makers of the personalized restaurant recommendations app Ness. It’s an all-cash transaction that OpenTable says is worth $17.3 million, although it comes with cash in Ness’s coffers that brings the net value to $11.3 million.
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In 2012 Twitter launched a new expanded tweet experience when they introduced Twitter Cards. These cards allow approved publishers to display more information than just the 140 characters—headlines, article summaries, images and much more can appear in a single tweet when an expansion link is clicked. Twitter has now rolled [...]
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Google's acquisition of Nest could be the most important development to ever happen in the nascent field of the Internet of Things. Here's why.
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A class-action suit claims that the social networking site monitors and uses your messages for advertising purposes.
The class-action lawsuit, submitted by Arkansas lawyer Matt Campbell and Michael Hurley from Oregon on Monday at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, says that the social networking giant monitors users' private messages in order to compile and mine data which can be used to profile web activity.
===> This data can then allegedly be used for profit through sales to marketers and advertisers -- who then can target ads based on the user's online behavior. <===
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First, I love headlines that stretch the truth a bit. No one outside of Google got their Glass before March of last year. I got mine on the second day they were available, which was ...
So, what would I do if I were Google? Reset expectations. Say “this is really a product for 2020 that we’re gonna build with you.” First release is in 2014, but let’s be honest, if it’s $600 and dorky looking, it’ll be doomed — as long as expectations are so high.
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Technology that derives personality traits from Twitter updates is being tested to help target promotions and personalize customer service.
Oscar Melendez's curator insight,
December 22, 2013 11:45 AM
Great what type of products will marketers try to sell you if your psycho-analysis tell them you're crazy.
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Mit einer kostenlosen Version eines beliebten SEO-Plugins für WordPress versuchen Spammer, Administratoren zu ködern. Das Plugin entpuppt sich als Malware, dass eine Hintertür im Server öffnet und Besucher der Seite infiziert.
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December 6, 2013 7:10 AM
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Don't want the entire Facebook-using and -abusing population to see your friends list? You could set your friend list to private, but fat lot of good that will do, given a researcher's discovery th...
Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
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Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
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Using the power of Social Media, I FREAKED PEOPLE OUT by making them think I knew personal information about them! Join the Vale Nation► http://bit.ly/JoinVa...
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November 20, 2013 4:22 AM
How much are you unwittingly sharing about yourself? 
Pamela Perry King's curator insight,
December 3, 2014 11:07 AM
Scary video, Big Brother is watching!
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Today the Wall Street Journal reported that Snapchat turned down a $3 billion or more all cash acquisition offer from Facebook. The news has taken many by..
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Scoff at the Snapchat valuations that are being tossed around and you will be told that there are so many ways for Snapchat to monetize. Just look at Facebook! I don’t believe it. Facebook’s data graph is why its advertising system works; Snapchat deletes – theoretically – the information that it could use to target advertisements.
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Kaspersky Lab says smaller firms are bigger targets to hackers than they believe.
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March 12, 2014 12:07 PM
The same advice could apply to small non-profit schools.
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March 12, 2014 12:15 PM
Hi dean J. Fusto: I agree completely with You! Any school should get seen as an #SMB (Small & Medium Business) and therefore apply Cyber-Security at the same as SMB's ;)
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March 12, 2014 12:15 PM
Hi dean J. Fusto: I agree completely with You! Any school should get seen as an #SMB (Small & Medium Business) and therefore apply Cyber-Security at the same as SMB's ;)
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I opted out of Klout years ago. Before I was ever listed, ranked, or nominated by Forbes, Huffington Post Tech, The Shorty Awards – before any of that. Before l
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Facebook scammers are trying to trick users into liking their pages by promising them a BMW 435i. This is just the latest in a long series of scams ab...
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Today, alongside a fourth quarter earnings report in which it beat Wall Street estimates yet again, LinkedIn announced its intentions to acquire data-savvy job search startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. The deal, which was 70 percent stock and 30 percent cash the company said, will be completed during the first quarter of this year.
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Facebook today launched new features to help marketers reach people across devices and encourage them to take action. Custom Audiences now allows businesses to deliver targeted messages ...
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Zwei US-Amerikaner klagen derzeit gegen Facebook und werfen dem sozialen Netzwerk vor, Privatnachrichten für Werbezwecke mitgelesen zu haben.
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Robert Scoble, Nerd, Blogger und selbst ernannter Google-Glass-Kenner war einer der ersten Menschen weltweit, die einen Prototyp von Google Glass in die Finger bekamen. Sein Fazit: Schick, aber ein Misserfolg.
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If kids can’t socialize, who should parents blame? Simple: They should blame themselves. Teenagers would love to socialize face-to-face with their friends. But adult society won’t let them.
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Security researcher Egor Homakov has discovered a Twitter vulnerability which allows apps to send DMs without requiring explicit user permission. TNW has verified the findings and can ...
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In an effort to keep your Twitter manners properly set up and to make sure you know which part of Twitter is useful for a particular type of question or conversation, check out this visual guide.
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The microblogging site adds a new security measure designed to make it harder for organizations like the National Security Agency to uncover its data. Read this article by Donna Tam on CNET News.
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Facebook aurait reçu des autorités européennes 8 500 demandes d'informations utilisateurs au premier semestre 2013, dont 1 500 effectuées par la France.
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According to Facebook's news page, the service has 1.23 billion active users, a little over 20% of the population of the world. Twitter has around 200 million. These services, or something like them, have become increasingly important in our lives, influencing the news media and a variety of public decision making processes. Between a need for security and utility, we need to start learning, then teaching, then learning some more, how to best use social media, and classrooms are not the only place where this needs to be done.