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With Facebook’s ever-evolving profile, sometimes it seems simpler to leave your profile information untouched than update it, even if your fondness for The Amazing Race has seriously dwindled over the last few years. Still, your online identity could be in serious need of some readjustments.
After a $500 million investment from Goldman Sachs and a big time Russian investment firm, Facebook ‘s value jumps to a stunning $50 billion, making the company worth more than competing companies eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner.
Was 2010 the year geek became chic? Tough to make a case against it — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was on the silver screen, deep-space tech bailed out some caved-in miners, and Julian Assange became the pallid rogue who kept governments guessing. But they weren’t alone: Techland takes a look back on the top 25 nerds [...]
Love social media? Great. But what about social reality?
Embarrassed by your Google search results? Old blogs and newspaper archives can be haunting, but cleaning up your search engine reputation is thorny. Google will only remove a search result from its queue if you can prove that the web page can be used for identity or credit card theft.
As more of our existence seems to transfer to a digital realm, our vulnerabilities will also make the shift. Here are the things to look out for in 2011.
Recipients won’t just judge your e-mail, they’ll judge you – or so says a new study Illinois’ Knox College that looks into the effect of e-mails on how others perceive you. It may seem redundant to school readers of a blog called Techland on proper e-mail usage, but as I receive more and more e-mails [...]
There’s no denying: Facebook had a hell of a year.
This month’s blockbusting hit Tron: Legacy is something of a cult phenomenon – a phenomenon that glows in the dark. Special effects supervisor Eric Barba was kind enough to talk us through the mind-bending, CGI world of Tron, spilling the secrets behind the magic of our favorite scenes.
Due to a tidal wave of spam-filled links from Bit.ly’s j.mp URL shortener, Facebook has temporarily blocked the links from the site. “As part of our effort to keep Facebook and the people who use our service secure, we closely monitor the content shared on the site for spam and malicious content,” Facebook said of [...]
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