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A “privacy” picture is worth a thousand words

When it comes to the privacy issues with Facebook nothing displays the reasons for concern better than the Infographics at The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook… [...]

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“Social media networks become an important stop for investment information”…Duh!!

When are you guys going to learn? Another financial research firm and consultant, Spectrem, has just recently released a new survey that suggests that not only do 69% of LinkedIn users consult their LinkedIn networks on investment issues but more than one-third of investors say they are interested in receiving information from their advisors or corresponding with them via social networks [...]

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Testing, testing…1,2,3….

This is one of those stories that are sometimes hard to believe…but then again…so I head over to cnet news. Sure enough – “IBM: We distributed malware-ridden USB drives” at an Australian security conference. There is that old rule that says IF IT CAN HAPPEN IT MOST PROBABLY WILL… [...]

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Pac-man turns 30 and Google lets everyone know…

I was 9 years old when “Pakkuman”, or Pac-man as most of us know it, was first released in Japan on May 22, 1980 by Namco. And to celebrate this landmark you can head over to google.com for a fully playable version of the most famous video game in the world. [...]

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Social Networks are PRIVACY and not price sensative…

Yesterday I wrote an article about the Privacy debate that had be raging over Facebook’s new “Open Graph” upgrades (Click here to read the story).

The last point of my post was that Privacy (not Price like many other businesses) was the sensitivity that social networks compete on.

Well, both CNet and Forbesare reporting that [...]

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Happy Birthday YouTube

How else would the world’s biggest TV channel celebrate their 5th birthday other than a video…

But before you watch it did you also know that;

YouTube’s front page receives every day 45,000,000 hit 70 percentage of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US. Every minute of the day 24 hours of video is uploaded [...]

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Is Facebook, or its management, becoming the privacy risk?

Protecting privacy starts with the user and not the social network. But it also provides the most competitive playing field any social network can compete on [...]

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The statistics speak for themselves – Rudd is out to protect his job.

The question is why be silly enough to commission the review if politically you have no intention of accepting any of the risks that may go with implementing any of the changes. Clearly this is the reason why the Government sat on the report for so long – they had a read of what they asked for and decided that the monster they had created could cost them their jobs – but how to release it? [...]

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