When you first opened your Facebook account, you may or may not have noticed that much of your private information was set to be shared by default. Your name, status, photos, posts, bio and relationships are automatically made public when you first start a Facebook account, and it’s up to you to go into your personal settings and scale …
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Parents Name Their Kid ‘Like,’ After Facebook
In a Seinfeldian example of weird baby names, a couple in Israel has taken inspiration from Facebook and named their baby daughter “Like.”
Lior and Vardit Adler fancied the idea of giving their child a unique name, Haaretz reports. Like had a nice ring to it, they decided, while also representing the age of social networking. “If once …
Twitter Promises to ‘Protect the Safety of Any Person,’ but Will It Hand Over Taliban Info?
In January, Wired noted that “Twitter beta-tested a spine.”
During the height of the WikiLeaks bruhaha, the U.S. government slapped the company with a court order, demanding user information of a few of the key WikiLeaks conspirators, including Pfc. Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. Instead of coughing up the information (mainly …
Facebook Hires PR Firm to Plant Negative News About Google
As the story goes, a blogger named Chris Soghoian recently got an e-mail from a big-name PR company with a somewhat odd proposition.
The e-mail begins as follows:
“Mr. Soghoian,
I wanted to gauge your interest in authoring an op-ed this week for a top-tier media outlet on an important issue that I know you’re following closely.
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Sorry, Other Mark Zuckerberg, the Name’s Taken
It’s not easy being Mark Zuckerberg — if you’re not the Mark Zuckerberg, that is.
A bankruptcy attorney in Indianapolis named Mark S. Zuckerberg, has learned this the hard way. Over the last seven years, he’s been (understandably) overshadowed by the founder of Facebook. His name no longer comes up in Google searches. And most
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Twitpic Says Sorry for Copyright Confusion
Twitter image service Twitpic today apologized after an update to its terms and conditions implied that it claimed ownership of all images uploaded to its servers, and could sell them on without the original photographer’s permission.
After a day of protest online, Twitpic rushed to amend its terms page, and said sorry to users on its …
Man FINALLY Sends a Tweet from the Top of Mount Everest
Back in October, I wrote about the 3G cellular connection that’d been installed at the base of Mount Everest.
I sat back in my chair, stroked my non-existent beard, and wondered “how high people can climb while still getting service.” Surely not to the top!
As it turns out, people can climb all the way to the top and get …
Zuckerberg Somehow Qualifies for Mortgage, Buys House
Must be nice! Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has the financial wherewithal to get a home mortgage, as evidenced by his recent purchase of a $7 million spread in Palo Alto, California. Zuck had apparently been renting a house up until now, which is adorable.
Let’s take a look at his new digs, shall we?
Here’s the front of the …
Study Reveals Most Mobile Users Aren’t ‘Checking In’
While we all know someone who inundates our social feeds with all of their “check ins,” it turns out that the idea of alerting the cyberspace world to our whereabouts is not too popular among most people.
A survey of more than 1,000 consumers conducted by digital agency Beyond shows that only 17% of the mobile users are taken with …
May The 4th Be With You. On Twitter
It’s Star Wars Day, that wonderful time of year where the collective Internet body comes together to make cheeky puns about our favorite fantasy universe.
Let’s face it: Star Wars Day is an Internet holiday, something to distract us between water cooler breaks and office memos, but it’s joyous nonetheless. Today, Lucas Film announced …
AT&T Launching Groupon-Style Daily Deals Site
It’s time to add – yet again – another Groupon competitor to the list of already growing entrants. Of course, Facebook has most recently thrown in its bid (after Google) to vie for a spot in the billion-dollar online coupon market. And now, enter AT&T into the ring.
The second-largest U.S. wireless provider is expected to …
Julian Assange Calls Facebook an ‘Appalling Spy Machine’
Let the privacy blowups commence again. What does WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange think of Facebook? He interviewed with Russia Today, saying that Mark Zuckerberg’s creation is “the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented.”
Assange believes that it is “…the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their …