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Do you chat on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+? Most of my contacts do (baffles me) but I prefer the good old email. Probably they find network chat faster but again, I don’t. Here are more comments:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/big_question_answered_worst_excel_spreadsheet.php
Worst Internet Privacy Scandals of All Time
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Sony named in Online Privacy Hall of Shame
‘The latest company to come under the privacy microscope is Google, which revealed a new privacy policy on Tuesday that clarified how it is combining user data across its services.
‘Meanwhile, on Wednesday the European Union unveiled stiffer penalties and higher fines for U.S. firms that fail to meet their privacy rules for cloud computing and social media applications.
With online privacy expected to remain a high-profile issue in 2012, here’s our list of the biggest online privacy breaches of all time:…’
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/012612-privacy-scandals-255357.html
Choose What You Share with Google
‘The search giant offers a couple of options on what information is associated with any given Google account. You can get an overview of all the data Google associates with your account by looking at the “Dashboard” option on your main Google account page. There’s a lot of information on this page, such as Android devices associated with the account, calendar information, contact information, Gmail history and records of activity on Google Music, Google Talk, Google Reader, Google Voice and social connections through Google contacts and chat.
‘You can edit some account preferences through this page, though other information, such as what Android devices are associated with your account, can’t be edited…’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/how-to-choose-what-you-share-with-google/2012/01/26/gIQAZNTpSQ_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most
Google Privacy Shift Makes Android an Info Gold Mine
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-sees-profit-in-tracking-users/2012/01/25/gIQAfDJVRQ_story.html
The McDonald’s Social Media Disaster
‘When you are a company whose products are synonymous with fast food and poor nutrition and whose job posts have made it into the Oxford English Dictionary as a byword for “An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of the service sector,” you might, understandably, want to use social media to get a different message across.
‘This is exactly what McDonald’s did when it decided to pour some cash into Twitter and buy some Twitter hashtags to promote its use of fresh produce, inserting paid-for tweets into the streams of Twitter users with the hashtag #MeetTheFarmers.
‘The campaign was intended to last 24-hours and it was well-intentioned enough and, initially, at least, appeared to work. When McDonald’s however changed the hashtag to #McDStories things went south very quickly. The hashtag was hijacked by angry customers who posted Tweets like these:…’
http://socialmediatoday.com/node/434385
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Gingrich Promises Moon Colony
Just yesterday, he said he wants Cuba freed. Now this
‘“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich said, drawing applause from the crowd. “I will, as president, encourage the introduction of the northwest ordinance for space to put a marker down that we want Americans to think boldly about the future and we want Americans to go out and study hard and work hard and together, we’re going to unleash the American people to build the country we love.”…’
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71991.html
‘This just in: the European Parliament’s rapporteur of the ACTA agreement, an agreement which is about as bad as SOPA and creates seriously repressive legislation – that rapporteur has just quit in disgust over how the whole process has been designed to keep citizens and lawmakers in the dark…’
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