Archive for the ‘Social Networks’ Category

Facebook Employee Accessing Data

Why You Shouldn’t Trust Facebook with Your Data: An Employee’s Revelations – Facebook
Valleywag had a commentary on a story about Facebook employees accessing user profiles when they shouldn’t. Apparently there is a master password that they can use to get into your account.
Also, it appears the database isn’t protected. An employee can just query the [...]

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Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Votes a Sham!

I just want to say the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year is a sham! ONE BIG SHAM!
They had voting throughout the fall for coach of the year. This was to be a vote of the fans. But it didn’t turn out that way.
University of Idaho football coach Robb Akey was in fourth place when [...]

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WordPress 2.9 Available And Intriguing

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.9. I haven’t noticed much of a difference yet, but there are some cool updates that I may be able to use.
Check out this video:

I think the two most interesting to me are the photo editor and just pasting a video link in the compose area. It is just getting [...]

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You screwed the pooch on this one Facebook

Facebook, I just want to say that you really screwed the pooch on your new update to the privacy settings.
People who had their profiles locked down with your old privacy settings now found them opened to the world and people who didn’t want to be found on Facebook, were starting to get found.
Now there is [...]

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How comments go on Web 2.0 Sites

I originally saw this on CrunchNotes as a way the comment streams go on TechCrunch. I think this is how most comment streams go on most sites these days.
This is brought to you by the fine folks of CollegeHumor.com. Warning: There is language and innuendo in the video.

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Pownce releases mobile version, maybe it will stem the downward turn

For those of you out there who have a mobile device and use Pownce has a mobile version. Just go to m.pownce.com.
It is still in Beta, so report any bugs. It still needs some work, but at least the folks at Pownce are developing one.
Thanks to my friend Chris who ran a trend on Google [...]

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New Media Douchebag on Net@Nite

Heard this video on the episode 40 of Net@Nite.
New Media Douchebag.  It is pretty funny.
Oh, if you listen to the episode 40 of Net@Nite, avoid Cherry Chocolate Rain.
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