Social Media

< News <
TwitterFacebook
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Social Media Aggregators

Twitter

Tumblr

Where: Scientific literature and museums on the east coast of the USA. Found even today in public consciousness and outdated dinosaur books. What: Brontosaurus is perhaps the most well known of the sauropod dinosaurs. Too bad it never really existed! The history of this name and why it became so popularized starts in 1877 when the paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh applied the name Apatosaurus to a sauropod specimen. http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard

Security Flaw Found in Tumblr, Company Says It's Now Fixed

http://mashable.com/2011/03/19/tumblr-security-flaw/ It started with a tweet Saturday morning, sounding an alarm of a security breach in the popular microblogging platform Tumblr . “OMG… The Tumbeasts are spitting out passwords!,” it warned. That tweet spread like wildfire, notifying the world of a coding error that opened a security hole with the potential of revealing users’ passwords, server IP addresses, API keys and personal information. Fortunately, Tumblr reacted, fixing the problem and then issuing this official message about 5 to 6 hours after the flaw was discovered: “A human error caused some sensitive server configuration information to be exposed this morning.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/five-things-facebook-should-fix-immediately/

Five Things Facebook Should Fix Immediately

Let me start with two questions. Why is it that such a successful company as Facebook feels like it needs to change and reinvent its interface constantly? And why are we so complacent with these changes that, quite literally, disrupt our online social lives? We have seen how social media is changing the world around us, yet we don’t have a say in its progress. Undeniably, Facebook is already part of all of our lives, even for non-users. We shouldn’t take the site for granted.