Is Facebook Your Achilles Heel? « Company K Media April 29, 2011 by Kerri Karvetski What would you do if you woke up one morning and were suddenly locked out of your Facebook page? It happened Thursday to technology news site Ars Technica. What did they do to offend the Facebook gods? Prior to the account lockout, we had received no notices of infringement or warnings. Ouch. Further investigation has revealed just how flawed Facebook’s infringement reporting system is. Facebook Seeking Friends In Beltway President Barack Obama will travel to Facebook Inc.'s Silicon Valley headquarters Wednesday to hold a "town hall" meeting on the economy with users of the social-networking site. But Facebook is still trying to find a path to Washington, where the company has only a fledgling lobbying operation, even though it finds its privacy policies under increasing scrutiny and is trying to navigate a politically sensitive expansion into China. In seven years, Facebook has risen from a tiny start-up to an Internet power with a potential market value estimated at more than $50 billion. At the same time, the company is confronting questions about how it will handle its role as a global public square for dissidents if it enters China and other countries with little tolerance for dissent. Until lately, Facebook has spent very little money in Washington, even by Silicon Valley's frugal standards.
Telecomix No, Facebook Doesn’t ‘Own’ Your Private Photos | SW14 Group LLC Another panicky status meme is making the Facebook rounds. And while there’s a grain of truth buried in it – as there is with many memes – it’s surrounded by some scare-mongering misinformation. The current status meme reads something like this: ATTENTION: This Friday, Facebook will become owner of the publishing rights of ALL your private photos. That right there is two completely separate issues rolled into one. First: Facebook doesn’t “own” your private photos. According to those same terms, when you upload your photos or other intellectual property, y ou give Facebook a “non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post… this license ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.” Why the non-exclusive license? That brings us to part 2.
WikiLeaks | Facebook | Google | Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are being used by the U.S. intelligence community to spy on users. In an interview, Assange was especially critical of Facebook , the world's top social network. The information Facebook houses is a potential boon for the U.S. government if it tries to build up a dossier on users, he told the Russian news site RT. Assange also told RT that Google and Yahoo "have built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence." "Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented," Assange said. "It's not a matter of serving a subpoena," he said.
From Facebook to Twitter: Save Your Community From Redundancy Caroline Chen | March 10, 2011 | 8 Comments inShare107 By understanding the nuances of each platform's digital culture, you can create unique and relevant content, speak the right language, and effectively grow both communities. Of all the social platforms, it's hard to avoid your favorite brand on Twitter or Facebook. I can't be alone in thinking there's not only a glut of information, but also brand redundancy that still exists across Twitter and Facebook. If Twitter remains your bite-sized Facebook RSS feed, you've only built a crutch for readership rather than a community. Consider these three areas of differentiation when managing your brand's presence in both environments: Customer interactions. Content. Capacity. Playing to each platform's cultural norms and technical strengths will not only help you stay relevant, but also help you stay sane.
Facebook Users Can Now Edit Their Comments Within a Few Seconds of Posting Facebook Users Can Now Edit Their Comments Within a Few Seconds of Posting Facebook users can now edit a comment they’ve left on a news feed story or wall post by clicking the ‘x’ button within the first few seconds after posting the comment. Instead of deleting the comment as before, the ‘x’ button re-opens the comment input field and lets users edit the previously entered text. This new feature should help users who’ve posted a long comment, but then immediately notice a typo or want to change the comment without having to delete it and re-type the whole thing. Our initial tests show the time window in which edits are permitted to be about 12 seconds. After that, the only option is to delete the comment. A post’s author and other commenters will only receive a single Facebook notification for a comment that has been edited and reposted multiple times. The purpose the feature is likely to encourage users to comment with more confidence, and to decrease the number of comment deletions.
Sécurité du web : le règne des passoires Pendant que les médias se focalisent sur quelques petits détournements de données, les VRAIS « piratages » restent impunis. La faute à un réseau construit de manière à être impossible à protéger... et qu'aucun dirigeant ne semble vouloir colmater ! En 1994, apparaissait le Web. L’un des premiers sites était Playboy.com. Depuis cette époque, toutes les entreprises ont ouvert une vitrine sur cette sous-partie d’Internet. Mais avec l’explosion du nombre d’ordinateurs interconnectés, sont apparus… les piratages. Que vous soyez puissant ou misérable… D’autant que généralement, le seul perdant, c’est le client. Pas de souci, tout cela est si vite oublié… Ceux qui ne l’oublieront pas sont généralement des anonymes, qui n’ont pas les moyens de faire payer ceux qui sont à l’origine de leurs ennuis. Bien entendu, ces entreprises, ces ministères, blâmeront les « pirates » qui ont accédé à ces données. Leurs économies de bouts de chandelles ont des conséquences. Bilan des courses ? Rien. Photos flickr
No-Bake Chewy Cookies and Cream Bars Oh how I love a treat that can be whipped up in about 15 minutes. My boys and their buddies couldn’t get enough of these Chewy Oreo Bars we had as an after school snack this week. Sometimes my spontaneous recipe creations turn out to be the most fun, lol! Yes you use an entire package of Oreo Cookies, but what you get in return is a marshmallow-y Oreo treat that is worth every bite Surprise the kids (and yourself) with this one, they’ll be all smiles, Enjoy! 3 whole ingredients. Break out your Cookies! Place them all in the food processor or blender and mix until ground. Like so. Melt the butter and marshmallows into a large bowl until puffed. You’ll get a little something like this Working quickly, pour in your ground cookies. Mix, mix and mix You’ll get a gooey mess….that’s delish! Transfer to an 8×8 inch baking pan and let set for about 10 minutes. Cut into squares and indulge No-Bake Chewy Cookies and Cream Bars One 16 oz package of Oreo 5 cups Large Marshmallows 4 tablespoons butter 1.
Study: FB ‘Likes’ Driving Buzz for Local Biz The Facebook “like” button, which has been around for just over a year, has already become an important cultural phenomenon. A couple of months ago, a study by Yahoo Labs’ Yury Lifshits looked at how “likes” affect traffic to news stories by reinforcing memes, making the most popular content even more popular as it is passed around. Now a new study from CityGrid Media and Harris Interactive finds that “likes” are also becoming major drivers of online buzz for local businesses, having eclipsed reviews sites as a method by which consumers show their support. That said, the survey also found that here’s no one overwhelming online driver sending people to local businesses — including daily deals and online coupons. “Likes are trumping reviews when it comes to sharing feedback, but this does not translate to Facebook being the first or only place consumers turn when deciding to try someplace new,” Kara Nortman, CityGrid Media’s SVP, Publishing, said in a statement.
Welcome to the Possibilium Facebook & E-Commerce: Forrester Gets It Wrong? I just finished reading the WSJ’s write-up of the Forrester Report by analyst Sucharita Mulpuru, “Will Facebook Ever Drive eCommerce?” Following extensive interviews with e-commerce vendors with fanpages on FB, according to the WSJ article Mulpuru’s convinced that a Facebook-driven commerce strategy is a dead end. I hate to disagree with someone smarter and better-researched than me, especially at Forrester, an organization I hold in high regard … but this strikes me as a short-sighted and unimaginative conclusion. A social-network presence, (Mulpuru) found, was less effective at customer acquisition and retention than e-mail and paid search. The study found that the average Facebook metrics are a 1% click-through rate and a 2% conversion rate. E-mail marketing, by comparison, has an 11% click-through rate and a 4% average conversion rate.Facebook’s problem, she said, is that few people go there for shopping-related activities. Here’s why I think Ms.
Julian Assange tells students that the web is the greatest spying machine ever | Media The internet is the "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen" and is not a technology that necessarily favours the freedom of speech, the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, has claimed in a rare public appearance. Assange acknowledged that the web could allow greater government transparency and better co-operation between activists, but said it gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents. "While the internet has in some ways an ability to let us know to an unprecedented level what government is doing, and to let us co-operate with each other to hold repressive governments and repressive corporations to account, it is also the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen," he told students at Cambridge University. He continued: "It [the web] is not a technology that favours freedom of speech. He said: "Yes [Twitter and Facebook] did play a part, although not nearly as large a part as al-Jazeera. "There is a reason for that.