Facebook privacy concerns voiced by FTC. Mark Zuckerberg responds.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has posted a blog in response to the recent agreement that has been settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over privacy concerns.
The social network agreed to settle charges made by the FTC claiming they "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public." In light of this, a formalizing of its privacy strategy is in hand, along with a complete review and improvements to the service as per what has been agreed.
Facebook likely to receive privacy sanctions from EU over targeted advertising
The behavioural targeting of Facebook's advertising has come under fire from The European Commission, as they plan to implement a Directive next tear to prevent the social network from targeting ads based on user information unless he/she explicitly allows it.
Facedrink gives you 'social energy'
Are those so-called 'social skills' starting to wear thin? Losing your friend-making energy in life? Well maybe you should try Facedrink: the energy drink with social strat...and a pretty big lawsuit on it's tail if the clearly aped social network has anything to do with it.
Google+ reunites DSLR with owner after a year at the bottom of the ocean
After discovering a DSLR camera on the bed of the Pacific Ocean while scuba diving, Markus Thompson managed to return the camera to its owner via the use of Google+.
What happens online when you die?
It's the question that nobody really thinks of as in the face of death (quite understandably) your online profiles fall to the wayside. But what does happen to the digital persona you spent time constructing after you die?
The obvious questions arise at first. Whether you'd rather want your profile to continue online existence forevermore or to elect a "digital executor" to take the lead in removing your online footprint?
Guy accuses Myspace Tom of being the Father to his Girlfriend's baby
An Alleged father on the Maury show (American daytime talk show of delight) has accused Myspace Tom Anderson of being the real father to his girlfriend's baby, because Tom was her very first friend on Myspace. We guess he had her at "pc4pc."
Google denies reports that Google+ is dying
Reports of Google+'s death were greatly exaggerated according to Google, claiming to the BBC they they're just getting started
This comes in response to a Forbes article "A Eulogy for Google Plus", a piece in Slate: "Google+ is dead," and the general opinion circulating that seems to be we got a Google+ account; but don't really use it anymore.
There's no better way to get over being unfriended on Facebook than with William Shatner
The title says it all really. Recently, on US show Jimmy Kimmel live they commenced a National Unfriend day: asking viewers to go through their Facebook friends and remove anybody who didn't fit the quote of actually being a friend.
But what about those on the receiving end of an unfriending? How are you going to cope in such times of online rejection? Kimmel has the answer...the perfect answer. Bring in Captain James T Kirk William Shatner to take you through the steps of unfriending grief. The smooth voice of Shatner talks you through the process of denial, anger, depression and acceptance that maybe you were never friends in the first place and maybe, just maybe, you can beat the next false friend to the punch. Have a watch.
Facebook shaves a couple off the six degrees of separation
Facebook has been taking it's mission to take out previous well known concepts: friendship, privacy, personality, and many more. But what about the six degrees of separation? Well now that's wrong: it's not 4.74 across the globe.
Anybeat launches today
Remember that social network we reviewed a while ago that merited pseudonymity and it's unwaivering determination to not follow you around the internet like that other social network? We were pretty favourable of it, and now it's launched today for you all to enjoy.
The World's Largest and Longest 3D Street Art
As part of a promotional campaign for Reebok Crossfit, street artists 3D Joe and Max created a Guiness world record beating piece of Street Art in both length and size, picturing a chasm that goes all the way down to the centre of the Earth.
Arrested Development returns in 2013
So there was money in the Banana stand the entire time! Netflix has signed a deal with both Fox and Imagine Television to contribute part of the production costs to film and show the new series of Arrested Development exclusively on the streaming service, in the first half of 2013.
Internet giants buy a full page in NYT to send a letter
A group of 9 huge internet and technology companies: AOL, Mozilla, eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Zynga and LinkedIn, have ran a full-page ad in The New York Times today, voicing their opposition against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261) and PROTECT IP Act (S. 968).
Facebook Fights back against porn and violence spam
Ever thought that your Facebook new feed is looking a lot more...voyeuristic lately? What about the occasional inclusion of a death scene photo, or of extreme violence? The social network is investigating these images that spammers have planted.
Google X meets Taiwanese animation [VIDEO]
Courtesy of NMA.tv, Google's secret laboratory, known as "Google X" received the animated treatment for all to see.
As has been the standard of these Taiwanese news animators a general grasp of original New York Times story is maintained, while delving into specific details a little too (whimsically) much, using robots, aliens, and a space elevator.
Socl: Microsoft's secret social network goes live, then disappears again
Microsoft let the social cat out of the bag tonight, publishing Socl.com to the web temporarily, then removing it promptly with this spash-screen. A creation of the FUSE research group, we managed to take a short look around, and managed to find a few key pointers to the service.
Go behind the scenes with Google's Think Insights
Ever been curious about people's search habits around Google? How many videos are watched on Youtube? How many blogs are posted in a day? The public facing side of analytics, Think insights, came out of beta yesterday.
Judge orders divorcing couple to share Facebook passwords
Most divorce cases usually end in the sharing of tangible property: the contrived arguments over who has rightful ownership of what, digging through the obligatory fact that everything is shared to land on a conclusion of individual items. But this is probably the first time where a court case has resulted in the two sides being ordered to share their Facebook passwords.
Editorial: Spotify is not winning with Facebook Open Graph
So Facebook released it's first batch of early results for the Open Graph integration into social music apps. While the numbers maybe positive (I pick on Spotify because they are absolutely crushing the competition in terms of numbers, probably because users are forced to login with Facebook), this is merely a quantitative result, whereas more qualitative data (meaning my opinion) would beg to differ.
Le internet Medley. 40+ memes. 1 music video
The title sums up what it is very nicely. The song and visual attraction would have to be the fact that this seems to be a music video for the internet troll in us. The GAG Quartet's most recent song, Le internet Medley, posted on Wednesday, contains over 40 memes, which have already been listed by one guy...but we're not going to link it. We'd rather you take a shot at identifying them all from 'Forever alone' to the Dramatic Chipmunk. Meme's have been somewhat a favourable past-time for us here, so please enjoy. Y U NO WATCHING THIS ALREADY.