Facebook Faceoff: Counterpoint (9/29) | The Harvard Independent. Time for Change Timeline says I have been a facebook member since 2006. When I click on the year 2006, it gives me a full-page summary of my facebook activity during that year, complete with photos, status updates, wall posts, and events. Did I really look that ghastly back then? Facebook changes formats as often as a snake sheds skin. Timeline is Facebook’s most radical profile makeover yet. What makes us cringe about Timeline is not the application itself, but the sudden fear that our lives are disappearing into it.
Facebook is new crime fighting tool for Rome police. Court asks 22 websites including Facebook, Google and Yahoo to remove objectionable content by February 6 - The Economic Times. PTI Dec 24, 2011, 02.22pm IST NEW DELHI: Setting a deadline for 22 social networking sites including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to remove all "anti-religious" or "anti-social" content, a Delhi court today directed the companies to file compliance reports by February 6. Additional Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar, who had on December 20 in a ex-parte order issued summons to the social networking websites, granted around one and half month for compliance of his order.
Out of 22, the representatives of two websites, Yahoo India Pvt Ltd and Microsoft, appeared in court and submitted that they have not got the copies of court order and complaint against them and pleaded the judge to provide the same. Santosh Pandey, counsel appearing for complainant Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi, assured the court that he would provide the companies with the copy of complaint and other related documents. "In such circumstances, I am of the view that plaintiff has a prima facie case in his favour.
Facebook Suggested Events Predicts Where You'll Want to Go. Move over Facebook and Twitter, here come Path and Pinterest. Obama bans daughters from Facebook to keep strangers from prying. APNewsBreak: Facebook aims to help prevent suicide. MENLO PARK, California (AP) — Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help. A program launching Tuesday enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor through Facebook's "chat" messaging system. The service is the latest tool from Facebook aimed at improving safety on its site, which has more than 800 million users.
Earlier this year, Facebook announced changes to how users report bullying, offensive content and fake profiles. "One of the big goals here is to get the person in distress into the right help as soon as possible," Fred Wolens, public policy manager at Facebook, told The Associated Press. Nearly 100 Americans die by suicide every day, and 36,035 a year, according to U.S Surgeon General Regina Benjamin's office.
Google and Yahoo have long provided the phone number to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline as the first result when someone searches for "suicide" using their sites. Beware of intrusive spying on Facebook. Facebook Reaches Deal Over Deceptive Behavior Allegations. Facebook to be in talks with FTC over privacy settings. Bloomberg Facebook Inc. is in talks with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle claims that it violated users’ privacy when it changed default privacy settings to disclose more information than was previously made public, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The proposed 20-year settlement would require Facebook to get express consent from users before sharing material posted under earlier, more restrictive terms, said the person, who declined to be identified because the settlement isn’t final.
It would also compel an annual, independent review of Facebook’s privacy practices. The FTC is stepping up its enforcement of privacy requirements at Internet companies and already has settled complaints with Google Inc. and Twitter Inc. this year. Cecilia Prewett, a spokeswoman for the FTC, and Andrew Noyes, a Facebook spokesman based in Washington, declined to comment on the talks. ‘Signal to Investors’ ‘Long Overdue’
Teva, Facebook, Novartis, GE, Telecom: Intellectual Property. (This is a daily report on global news about patents, trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property topics. Adds Telefonos de Mexico SAB item to trademark section.) Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. lost a U.S. appeals court bid to stop Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s sales of a generic version of the Seasonique birth- control pill. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington yesterday affirmed a lower court ruling that let Watson enter the market even as it awaits the outcome of a patent-infringement lawsuit filed by Teva’s Duramed unit.
Notice of the decision was posted on the court’s website. Watson began selling a generic version of Teva’s Seasonique contraceptive in July. Teva, based in Petah Tikva, Israel, contends the copy infringes a patent that expires in January 2024, and sought to block sales until a trial on the validity of the patent. The case is Duramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. The case is Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v.
CIA is watching tweets, Facebook. In the first report of its kind, the Associated Press has learned that the Central Intelligence Agency is following tweets, up to 5 million a day. “In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building... a team known affectionately as the ‘vengeful librarians’ also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms - anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly,” the AP reports .
The agency's Open Source Center, as it is called, gathers information, often in a country’s native language, to get a picture of the mood of a region after a world event, or a prediction of what might come. The center followed Chinese-language tweets to find out China wasn’t pleased with Osama bin Laden’s death, for example, and knew months before that an uprising in Egypt was coming, though they couldn’t predict when. Morning Tech Wrap: Nokia, Facebook, Google. Facebook. Egyptian gets three years jail for Facebook Islam insult. An Egyptian court sentenced a man to three years in jail with hard labor on Saturday for insulting Islam in postings on Facebook, the official MENA news agency reported.
The Cairo court found that Ayman Yusef Mansur “intentionally insulted the dignity of the Islamic religion and attacked it with insults and ridicule on Facebook,” the agency reported. The court said his insults were “aimed at the Noble Koran, the true Islamic religion, the Prophet of Islam and his family and Muslims, in a scurrilous manner,” the agency reported. Mansur was arrested in August after police tracked him down through his internet address. Egyptian law outlaws insults to religion. The law has been used in the past to try Shiite Muslims. MENA did not mention Mansur’s religion or beliefs, but quoted the court as saying that “all members of religions are obligated to tolerate the others’ existence.”
Netflix Wanting Facebook Link Seeks to Ease Disclosure Ban. (Updates with House panel’s vote in third paragraph.) Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- During the 1987 battle over Robert Bork’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination, a Washington tabloid published Bork’s video rentals. The next year, Congress banned such disclosures without customer consent. That two-decade-old law is now the target of lobbying by online video provider Netflix Inc., which says the measure is blocking its deal with Facebook Inc. to let U.S. customers link their Netflix accounts to the world’s largest social network and share movies and television shows with friends. Today, the House Judiciary Committee approved a Netflix- backed bill that would revamp the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act to allow consumers to provide one-time online consent to release rental data, paving the way for U.S. implementation of the Facebook deal.
Netflix rose 2.2 percent to $116.17 in Nasdaq trading at 11:40 a.m. New York time. Lobbying Increase Friending Facebook Privacy Implications ‘Driver’s Seat’ Facebook taps Microsoft Bing for Page content translation. Facebook has launched a new translation tool that lets you translate posts and comments directly inline on Facebook Pages. The service, which is powered by Microsoft's Bing Translator, means Facebook users can read Page content regardless of the language it is written in. If a comment posted on a Page is in a language that is different than the one your Facebook account is set to, a Translate button may show up just below it (beside the existing Like button). Clicking on the button will translate the comment to your account language. After translation, an Original button appears instead, and if you click that it will revert the comment to the original version (and offer the Translation button again).
The Translate button currently only appears to users with their language set to Korean, Japanese, Russian, Taiwanese, and Chinese. When you click on the Translate button on a public Page post, a Bing translation appears in a popout window. Facebook Launches New Metric: "People Talking About" Facebook has overhauled its Pages Insights analytics tool and added a new metric to gauge the health of a page: "People Talking About. " That statistic, which users will see on Pages below the total number of "Likes," will be one of four tracked by Pages Insights.
The idea is that users will understand a Page with a high People Talking About rating is one that has compelling content. Likewise, content creators will be motivated to make their Pages more comment-worthy. People Talking About (that might not be the final name for the metric; at press time, Facebook wasn't sure) will measure user-initiated activity related to a Page, including posting to a Page's Wall, "liking," commenting, sharing a Page post or content on the Page, answering a Question posed to fans, mentioning a Page, "liking" or sharing a deal or checking in at your Place.
The other metrics, which are designed for administrators of brand and media Pages, include "Likes," "Friends of Fans" and "Weekly Total Reach. " Why Facebook Is Becoming the Media World's Black Hole | Commentary and analysis from Simon Dumenco. Facebook tracks users even after logging out | TECHNOLOGY News. Published: 4:23PM Monday September 26, 2011 Source: Fairfax Source: ONE News An Australian technologist has caused a global stir after discovering Facebook tracks the websites its users visit even when they are logged out of the social networking site.
Separately, Facebook's new Timeline feature, launched last week, has been inadvertently accessed by users early, revealing a feature that allows people to see who removed them from their friends' lists. Facebook's changes - which turn profiles into a chronological scrapbook of the user's life - are designed to let its 800 million members share what they are reading, listening to or watching in real-time. Of course, Facebook's bottom line improves the more users decide to share. Are you upset by the changes? Whenever you visit a web page that contains a Facebook button or widget, Cubrilovic says, your browser is still sending details of your movements back to Facebook.
He backed up his claims with detailed technical information. 1. 2. 3. 4. Facebook Funds Go to Teachers. Facebook helps high school students like First Amendment : The Technology Chronicles. High school students who use social networks like Facebook show an increasing appreciation for the freedoms of speech and the press that are protected by the First Amendment, according to a new study released Friday. The study by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation found the percentage of students who believed the First Amendment went “too far” dropped from 45 percent in 2006 to 24 percent in 2011. And 91 percent of the students who get news and information from social networking agreed that “people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions.”
Miami’s Knight Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes journalism, sponsored the nationwide survey of 12,090 high school students and 900 teachers. A foundation press release quoted two of the students interviewed, both seniors at Branham High School in San Jose: “It has taught us early on that we have a right to say whatever we want without worrying,” said Madison Davis. Knight Foundation. Coming Soon To Facebook: Subscribe To Non-Friends.
Facebook is suggesting that you subscribe to people’s public status updates and customize how much of their feeds you receive. The site is rolling out a new subscribe button that will enable you to receive in your news feed publicly visible status updates from people who aren’t yet on your friend list. This same feature will also let you customize what you see from people who are on your friend list. The social network posted an announcement about the feature, explaining that it will allow you to: Choose what you see from people in news feed.Hear from people, even if you’re not friends.Let people hear from you, even if you’re not friends. A subscribed button will show up on the pages of your friends — along with those of nonfriends you subscribe to — and clicking on the icon will pull down a menu of three options you can select. All updates: Everything your friend posts.Most updates: The amount you’d normally see.Important updates only: Just highlights, like a new job or move.
How To Pay Less Per Click On Facebook Advertising. Getting the best performance on Facebook advertising requires more than creative content and audience targeting. A good sense of timing can help you save money when bidding for ads. Since Facebook has a limited supply of people who can view advertising, the site uses a marketplace system: The highest bid price per click on an ad wins the opportunity to display a promotion to the sought audience. Bidding when there’s less competition can help advertisers win auctions with lower-priced bids. All advertisers on Facebook compete with each other to reach users, whether they’re targeting wide sets of demographics or specific niches. When more advertisers are trying to reach the same audience, the bid price required to secure impressions rises. Facebook helps you gauge the overall supply and demand in the marketplace by providing data on suggested bids.
The higher these prices go, the greater the competition there is for a particular audience you’re seeking. Nobitter - A small twitter client to add end-to-end encryption within a group. Winklevoss Twins Addicted To Facebook And Litigation - Kashmir Hill - The Not-So Private Parts. Map Shows Facebook Conquering the World, But Is It Losing Support Back Home?
The latest "World Map of Social Networks," which charts popular social networks by country, reveals that Facebook dominates the category with almost 700 million users. A new report, however, insists that while the service is gaining international members, it is losing U.S. users. Vincenzo Cosenza creates his world map twice a year—in June and December—based on traffic data from Alexa and Google Trends for Web sites. According to the updated map, Facebook is now the most popular social network in 119 out of 134 countries; a list that now includes Ethiopia and Tanzania. Since the last map was created in December 2010, Facebook has also conquered Iran and Syria, despite struggling against censorship. Don't count Twitter out, though. Looking back at the map from June of 2009, Facebook was already covering much of the globe and has continued to gain in popularity, with the majority of the map now painted Facebook blue.
Facebook New Facial Recognition Feature Raises a Few Eyebrows. Why Google Won't Survive the Facebook Threat. Will Altly Be the New Facebook? — Tech Cocktail. Ex-Myspace exec wants you to make room for a new Facebook. Another Unhappy Facebook User's Lawsuit Tossed--Kamango v. Facebook. Facebook trashes Symantec report on data breach. Android Can Now Batch Upload Imagery To Facebook. Do You Suffer From Facebook Addiction Disorder? Pupils are not your Facebook friends, net privacy expert warns teachers.
Facebook fixes bug affecting Hotmail users | InSecurity Complex. Facebook to Share Datacenter Technology. Will State Laws Dictate Facebook Privacy? Facebook Now Has 250 Million Mobile Users (And A New Unified Mobile Website To Match) STUDY: Millennials Prefer Facebook Politicking. Facebook Biggest Spy on YOU ! Collecting Your Private Information-(ADEE) Hatch hosting Facebook founder on Friday in Utah - The Hill's Twitter Room. Teen's Facebook post about tattoo leads to child abuse charge for mum. Biggest-facebook-security-threats: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance. Facebook roles out movie rentals.
Patients use Facebook, Twitter, to get health information. Tech Notebook: Google turns to your Twitter, YouTube (but not Facebook) connections. INFOGRAPHIC: Facebook Will Have 100 Billion Photos This Summer. Bahraini Protesters Organize Via Facebook. Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as protest mounts. Facebook Rolling Out Brand New Photos Interface. Google’s Wael Ghonim Thanks Facebook For Revolution. Facebook locks Google out of advertising on its social network – Tech Products & Geek News. Facebook Pages Redesign Adds Administrator Features -- Facebook -- InformationWeek. News - Technology & Science - Facebook, Google mull $10B Twitter buy: report. Michelle Obama: No Facebook For My Girls. Facebook Faces Off With YouTube for Commercial Viewers. U.S. Congressmen: Don’t Turn Facebook Into Phonebook.
How to secure your Facebook account | Webware. Sarkozy Announces via Facebook that he will not run in 2012, Courtesy of a Cracker. Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion. 2010: The Year Facebook Dethroned Google as King of the Web [STATS] Facebook Takes Over Yahoo To Become The Third Largest Website In The World. Facebook moves closer to trademarking 'face' - Stamford News - The Stamford Times - Stamford's Newspaper.
Email marketing and Facebook's unified messaging system. First look at new Facebook rival. Facebook is on verge of Starting an E-Mail Service | World News Heard now. Facebook overhauling inbox, combining e-mail, texting and IM. Police warn they will watch out for Facebook events. 'The Social Network': Justin Timberlake on Why He's Not on Facebook. Facebook feeds narcissism, survey says.