Crooks set cyber traps on Digg: security firm. Crooks set cyber traps on Digg: security firm SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - PandaLabs, a computer security firm, is reporting that cyber-crooks are setting traps on popular news-sharing website Digg. Criminals pose as legitimate Digg members and then entice readers with bogus links to scintillating online video in comments posted in forums related to celebrity news, according to the Spain-based firm. Digg is a website at which stories from throughout the Internet are gathered and then given prominence depending on votes, or "diggs," they get from website members. Digg members chat about stories in accompanying online forums.
PandaLabs said cyber-frauds post comments claiming to have links to video of starlets having sex or stars getting into trouble. Those that follow such links are prompted to download software to view the promised video. "To make its claims more believable, it prevents the system from operating correctly," PandaLabs said of the malicious software ruse. 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know. We’ve updated this guide with the new privacy settings just launched by Facebook. You can get the new Facebook privacy guide now.
Everyday I receive an email from somebody about how their account was hacked, how a friend tagged them in the photo and they want a way to avoid it, as well as a number of other complications related to their privacy on Facebook. Over the weekend one individual contacted me to let me know that he would be removing me as a friend from Facebook because he was “going to make a shift with my Facebook use – going to just mostly family stuff.” Perhaps he was tired of receiving my status updates or perhaps he didn’t want me to view photos from his personal life. 1. I can’t tell you how many people are not aware of their friend lists.
There are a few very important things to remember about friend lists: I’ll touch on each of the things listed above in more detail later. Using friend lists is also extremely useful for organizing your friends if you have a lot of them. Scobleizer. Last night Loic Le Meur released a new version of Twhirl. How does it compare to TweetDeck? “Scoble, you’re using some weird language here.” Yeah, if you aren’t a Twitter addict you can skip this post. So, why compare just TweetDeck to Twhirl? Especially when there are dozens of tools to use with Twitter? Because I listen to the people who I am following and these are the two I see getting discussed all the time. If you want me to review another tool well, get more people to talk about it! So, anyway, now that we’ve covered my gatekeeping function, why choose one tool over another? TweetDeck appeals to those who have to watch Twitter all day long. TweetDeck is a dominant mode app. You can see how that would be useful for, say, someone who worked at a big company and needed to track everything said about her company, her competitors, and the space her company works in.
So, now we come to Twhirl. Michelle Obama's Vogue Cover: It's Out. The Button Effect :: Free Web 2.0 Generated Buttons. TK - Renaming The Internet. The Best Techniques For Building Your Tribe On Twitter The Right Way | Field Notes From Wired America - Steffan Antonas. [tweetmeme]Twitter is one of the most powerful community building tools available today for two reasons – simplicity and transparency. With the right tools and techniques, you can use Twitter to find people who are like you and share your passions, and build strong networks quickly, effectively and cheaply.
The ability to form tight networks in this way is almost unprecedented, and is one of the main driving forces of the Twitter Revolution. In this post I will discuss tools and techniques for using Twitter for effective personal networking and building a tribe, not for using it as a marketing tool. For People Who Want To Use Twitter as a Marketing Tool There are several ways to use Twitter as a tool, and they require fundamentally different mind-sets and strategies. For People Who Want To Use Twitter For Personal Networking and Building A Tribe Effectively building a personal network with Twitter requires a very different mind-set than the ones covered in the posts above.
Excited? 1. 2. Phoenix Conservative Examiner: Republican bureaucrat asks to be fired to save taxpayer money. Expect chilly temperatures in Hell tomorrow, when Michigan Republican Drain Commissioner Dennis Lennox will ask that his office be terminated in order to save taxpayers funds, according to a spokesman for the politician. CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (Feb. 8) -- County Drain Commissioner Dennis Lennox will ask the Board of Commissioners to fire him by passing a resolution to abolish his office during Wednesday's session, which is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.While drain commissioners play a role in agriculture-dominated counties, Cheboygan County has little need for the position...
"There is nothing for the drain commissioner to do except waste taxpayer money," said Lennox (R-Topinabee), who defeated a two-term Democratic incumbent in November. "We simply don't need a drain commissioner. We don't have any drains for the office to oversee and manage. " Props to Lennox for this stand-up move. Michigan law mandates the election of drain commissioners in counties with a population over 12,000. The Case for 4% Mortgages - HBR Editors' Blog - HarvardBusiness.org.
Last week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proposed government-backed 30-year fixed-rate mortgages of 4% to any creditworthy borrower as one of the solutions to the current financial crisis. Readers weighed in on this idea in response to an HBR Editors’ Blog post “Should Obama Lower Mortgage Rates?” The architects of this plan are R. Glenn Hubbard, the dean of Columbia Business School and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bush, and Christopher Mayer, a professor of finance and economics and vice dean of Columbia Business School. Here, they answer questions about and defend the viability of that plan, and respond directly to some readers’ questions about such a move.
HBR: The assumption is that consumers would spend more if they got this break. But that was the assumption behind the tax rebates from recent years, and it didn’t work as well as hoped. How can we assume consumers will spend their mortgage savings? No. Mashable. It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming technology and social media events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership. :) February 9, 2009, New York City Social Media Week (SMW) launches for the first time in New York City. It aims to create an open and inclusive environment offering a series of free events, including workshops and panel discussions, together with a platform for individuals, group and companies to organize their own activities.
For more information about Social Media Week and to learn more about the week's schedule visit www.socialmediaweekny.com. February 9-10, 2009, San Jose, CA: User-generated content is a rapidly developing revolution in media. February 11, 2009, San Francisco, CA: It's safe to say that SF New Tech is San Francisco's largest and longest running technology event and community group. Scores killed in Australia's 'worst fires' Thoughts on work, life, and layoffs. Layoffs are in the news and on everyone’s mind these days. Techcrunch’s tracking the numbers, Robert Scoble’s tweeting about it, Jeremiah Owyang’s blogging about it, so I was inspired to chronicle my thoughts on the current downturn and layoffs, in general: #1 It’s not you, it’s the company: Remember that layoffs are a business decision and do NOT let your company’s dismal performance undermine your confidence.
A senior manager I admire greatly once said, “If your work is not appreciated by the company, do you still want to continue doing it?’ If you’ve been laid off, think of it as a opportunity to do work that’s meaningful and more importantly, appreciated. Nothing is more demotivating and demoralizing than working on projects that get killed or never see light of day.
I disagree with folks who think being laid off has some sort of stigma attached to it. The most important thing you can do once you’ve been laid off is to get out there and network. Like this: Like Loading... Coal Death Watch: DOJ Cracks Down, Costs Stack up. Direct Messaging for Your Social Networks. No more taking pictures of people in public in Europe anymore. Here we go folks down that slippery slope of stupidity once more. It appears that the European Court of Human Rights has now ruled that the taking of a pictures without the explicit consent of the person being photographed is a violation of that person’s right of privacy – even if it is taken in a public and even if it is never used. This decision was the result of a court case involving a newborn baby who was put into a sterile unit when born. At that point as a part of a commercial service provided by the hospital they took a photograph of the baby.
The child’s parents in turn objected and demanded that the hospital hand over the negatives. the hospital refused and when the Greek courts refused to hear the case it went before the European Court of Human rights. “The Court reiterated that the concept of private life was a broad one which encompassed the right to identity,” said an ECHR press release about the ruling.
GOP Congressman Breached Security Via Twitter. Cognitive Computing Project Aims to Reverse-Engineer the Mind | Gadget Lab. Imagine a computer that can process text, video and audio in an instant, solve problems on the fly, and do it all while consuming just 10 watts of power. It would be the ultimate computing machine if it were built with silicon instead of human nerve cells. Compare that to current computers, which require extensive, custom programming for each application, consume hundreds of watts in power, and are still not fast enough. So it’s no surprise that some computer scientists want to go back to the drawing board and try building computers that more closely emulate nature. "The plan is to engineer the mind by reverse-engineering the brain," says Dharmendra Modha, manager of the cognitive computing project at IBM Almaden Research Center. The 39-year old Modha, a Mumbai, India-born computer science engineer, has helped assemble a coalition of the country’s best researchers in a collaborative project that includes five universities, including Stanford, Cornell and Columbia, in addition to IBM.
CommunityIntelligence Ltd. Travel firms respond to events, share news via Twitter. By Rebecca Heslin, USA TODAY Janis Krums of Sarasota, Fla., boarded a ferry on the Hudson River on Jan. 15 expecting a ride, not a rescue. When US Airways Flight 1549 crash landed in the river off Midtown Manhattan, the ferry Krums was riding rushed to help. On the way, Krums took a photo on his iPhone and shared the photo on Twitter. "There's a plane in the Hudson. Krums' instant fame came less than a month after passenger Mike Wilson used Twitter — a free micro-blogging service that allows users to send and read short text updates — to tell of his adventure aboard Continental Flight 1404, which skidded off the runway in Denver on Dec. 20 and burst into flames.
Wilson (or '2drinksbehind' on Twitter) became a national news phenomenon after telling — via "tweets" in Twitter parlance — of his escape, then of his annoyance at being refused a cocktail after the ordeal. Problems no longer 'quiet' "Customer problems can no longer be kept 'quiet' with the emergence of the Web," Davis says.
Evan Williams of Twitter Speaks at TED. Pic by jurvertson Quotes from Evan Williams at TED, did my best Evan spoke fast like tweets. There is no news in the talk but Evan was very inspiring in the way he said Twitter was a side project in Odeo which was not taking off. That should remind anybody to always let enough space for creativity and side projects. Imagine if Evan’s board and direct professional entourage were telling him constantly stop playing with that Twitter thing and concentrate on saving Odeo. Odeo would have probably still not grow while the huge Twitter success would have never happened. We should always keep our ideas open, it is not what your initial idea of a business is that matters, it is where you take it and how fast you can adapt to a new side project getting traction. . “4 years ago I announced on the TED stage the launch of Odeo” @ev #ted. Cash for Clunkers Proposal Yanked from Senate Stimulus Plan.
Big Pharma's Drugs to be Weaponized to Fight "Mind Wars" on Future Battlefields. (NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical products could be employed to boost the performance of one army's soldiers while undermining the minds of those on the other, according to a National Research Council report drafted for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. The report, "Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies," addresses the question of how emerging neuroscience technologies and an increased understanding of the mind's functioning will affect police and the military.
"It's way too early to know which - if any - of these technologies is going to be practical," study co-author Jonathan Moreno said. "But it's important for us to get ahead of the curve. " The use of drugs to enhance or undermine battlefield performance features prominently in the report. On the flip side, drugs might be used to attack the minds of opposing troops. "How can we disrupt the enemy's motivation to fight? It's not only on the battlefield that the military is thinking about deploying drugs. Presenting: 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media. Samir Balwani is an emerging technology strategist at Morpheus Media, a firm specializing in Social Marketing, SEM, and SEO.
You can follow him on Twitter @samirbalwani and get his newsletter. As we battle a global recession, corporations are looking for new ways to sell their products and engage their consumers. Many have turned to the Internet, with Social Media in particular, to market their goods. Let's take a look at 10 companies that have done a phenomenal job of taking advantage of social media platforms. 1. Blendtec Blends it on YouTube Who doesn't know about the "Will It Blend" series on YouTubeYouTube reviews ? Blendtec leveraged YouTube's subscriber base and tried something fun and original. Lesson: Social media marketing doesn't always need to cost a lot of money. 2. Recently, Burger King has really been pushing the envelope with their marketing. Sadly, the application was shut down as quickly as it started by Facebook, citing privacy concerns. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. How to use Gmail's 'Multiple Inboxes' for extra Gmail accounts | Webware.
When I heard the news that Gmail was offering " Multiple Inboxes " as part of Labs, the first thing that popped into my head was "finally--now I can check multiple accounts from the same place! " Unfortunately, that's not how it works. Instead, Google's solution is simply to place the results from various filters and search queries off to the side of your main in-box. By default it sets you up with messages you've starred, and unsent messages from your drafts folder.
This is nice and all, but you can hop to those two places from links in the left-hand navigation. What I really wanted to do was to get in-boxes from two of my other Gmail accounts into my main Gmail account, and I managed to get it to work with a little tweaking. Here's how to do it: Step 1: Enable Multiple Inboxes in labs. Step 2: Log in to the additional account you want to view from your primary Gmail account and open up the settings menu. Like the first method, there are a few hang-ups with this one.
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