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Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever!

Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever!
I am absolutely sure that my Facebook login details are correct, but the machine answers always with "Wrong password, dude!"? The facebook screen shows a message like "You are signing in from an unfamiliar location. For your security, please verify your account." Since our service is located in The Netherlands, the facebook server is clever enough to detect that our machine tries to login from a different country than yours. Thus, it asks a security question which consists of your birthday used in your profile. To circumvent this security-problem we have implemented a small work-around.

http://www.suicidemachine.org/

How To Do Everything Though there is no one-size-fits all approach to designing a great email, there are some general tips and best practices that you should always keep in mind when building your own campaigns. This is a very broad topic, covering everything from the From Label to images to HTML. So let's dive right into the details: From Label & Subject Line The From Label should almost always be the name of your organization. It’s important that your recipients be able to immediately recognize the email is from a person or company they know - otherwise they’re likely to glance right over the email without opening it or could potentially even report it as spam.

15 Blogs To Follow If You Want To Kick Ass Online Being successful online requires that you beat a pretty long learning curve and while I try to contribute with my 2 cents, there are amazing bloggers out there that you should be reading on a regular basis. These people put their amazing talent and knowledge into blog content and deliver it to their online communities week after week. I have to advise you that if you see that I’m not going with the obvious is for 2 reasons, one because I like helping you discover stuff that you might have missed (there is just too much content out there…) and two, not that I don’t occasionally read the usual suspects, but this is the stuff I visit frequently. Also let me say that this is not a ranking so don’t pay attention to the order. Why am I sending traffic to other blogs?

TRANSFORMATIONS Journal of Media & Culture Issue No. 20 2011 — Slow Media Digital Suicide and the Biopolitics of Leaving Facebook By Tero Karppi “Everyone now wants to know how to remove themselves from social networks. Lost In Val Sinestra: A Mesmerizing Movie Trailer Featuring Your Facebook Friends Double rainbow awesome. There’s no other modern way to describe this. I won’t spoil it too much, but whatever you do today, visit this website and select some of your closest friends from your Facebook graph when prompted. You won’t be disappointed.

Why the FBI's Surveillance Proposal Could Be a Disaster for the Cloud - ReadWriteCloud The FBI's hopes to "wiretap" the Internet show that federal officials and the Obama administration have little understanding of its implications and further almost no understanding of the technology and the way security functions in a communications environment. It's dangerous stuff if nothing else than for its clear attempt to intrude deeper into our personal lives in the name of safety and security. But before we get too tripped up on those silly worries about personal freedoms, let's look at what the effects would be on cloud computing and in particular, the customers who use it.

Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Promote Your Social Media Profiles Selene M. Bowlby, owner of iDesign Studios, is a web designer and front-end web developer with over ten years of professional experience in the design industry. Follow her on Paul Gilroy speaks on the riots, August 2011, Tottenham, North London [Winston Silcott in his introduction, remarked that if London had a better welfare state like Sweden, the riots may not have occurred] Gilroy: I don't want us to get too romantic about Scandinavia...[applause]. The last time I was in Malmö there was a laser sniper shooting at people of colour in the streets. I want to say a few things in solidarity with the people who have suffered, the families including the family of Mark Duggan who have lost so much.

Hacker Proves Facebook’s Public Data Is Public Security specialist Ron Bowes has once again proven how easy it is to glean valuable user information from Facebook, by spidering Facebook’s online directory and compiling it all into one neat little torrent that could be downloaded off his site, SkullSecurity.com. Bowes created a torrent containing over 171 million entries with links to profiles that provide access to the names, addresses and phone numbers of 100 million users, one fifth of Facebook. Bowes accessed Facebook’s directory, which has the default dictum “Anyone can opt out of appearing here by changing their Search privacy settings.”

One Dead Tree (20 photos) It's a familiar tale you hear all the time. What starts out as an accident turns into something amazing. So it was for Kevin Day, a graphic designer who's created a beautiful and moving story about one dead tree. For over five years now, Day has been photographing the same tree on different days, through different seasons and in different lighting conditions.

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