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Facebook’s Privacy Upgrade Recommends I Be Less Private
6 hours ago ago from Daggle
Facebook's challenge to me (and others), as it has tried to compete with Twitter , has been that so much of the user data it wants to share with the world as content to attract visitors and eyeballs has been tied up behind the the privacy barriers set by its own users. How do you get those users to be more public? Apparently, offer privacy options under the guise of user control but which really seem designed as a wholescale attempt to get ...
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20 hours ago ago from Internet Marketing KB
Google really unleashed a torrent of news and updates today. While events such as the launch of Google Goggles are very interesting, the big news is clearly the launch of real-time search within Google . Now as events unfold, Google will capture the chatter about it in real-time from sources such as Twitter, Yahoo Answers, news media and Facebook. The inclusion of Facebook in this list of real-time sources is one of the most important ...
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13 hours ago ago from Tech stories - TechChuck
ReadWriteWeb Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines . It's a move we expected but the language used in the announcement is near Orwellian. The company says the move is all about helping users protect their privacy and connect with other people, but the new default option is to change from "old ...
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Related contentFacebook rolls out new privacy settings
10 hours ago ago from Dynamic Business
Facebook rolls out new privacy settings Facebook has begun rolling our new privacy settings to its 350 million users, giving users a much tighter control over who sees what. As part of the changes, Facebook users will be able to select a privacy setting for each piece of content, such as photos or updates, that they share on the site. The choices are friends only”, friends of friends or Users will have to be wary of selecting the ...
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Microsoft won't chase Google into real-time search
15 hours ago ago from BloggingStocks
Google ( GOOG ) may be going after real-time search , but Microsoft ( MSFT ) isn't following. The company said on Tuesday that it doesn't see a pressing need to integrate with social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to deliver real-time results. According to Adam Sohn, director of Bing, Microsoft's search engine, "We're focused on our customers, not the competition." Real-time search involves taking the freshest updates from ...
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3 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Tech
Uh, about that status update on Facebook last night . . . you may want to make sure that information isn't available to more than just your friends. This Story The popular networking site introduced new privacy settings on Wednesday that are supposed to give its 350 million users more control over what information they share and whom they share it with. But public interest groups are concerned that Facebook's default ...
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4 hours ago ago from DailyFinance
The three major search-engine companies have all flooded the media with news of product enhancements and big developments in the past two weeks. Both Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Google ( GOOG ) had big show-and-tell days to highlight some impressive new tricks their tech teams have put together. Microsoft's Bing rolled out enhanced visual search results . Google, meantime, unveiled jaw-dropping automated language translation and voice-activated ...
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11 hours ago ago from Wired.com
Sections Public Posting Now the Default on Facebook Facebook users who don't adjust their privacy settings will begin publishing their status updates and photos to the entire internet Wednesday, a change made by Facebook in its simplification of its privacy tools in order to keep up with the popularity of micro-publishing sites like Twitter. Facebook users logging in Wednesday will see ...
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17 hours ago ago from FanHouse
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Quelf is the latest cult boardgame to enter the social media space with the launch of Quelf.com using Facebook Connect. Quelf: Obey The Card is one of the first interactive applications to integrate webcam and Facebook Connect using the Wowza Media Server Pro platform; combined these technologies enable players to login, film themselves and share random Quelf videos with friends on Facebook and Twitter. ...
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