Archive for October, 2010
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Philippines: Mong Palatino (mongpalatino.com)
Palatino, 30, a second-term MP, is a prolific blogger, tweeter and columnist on youth issues, press and internet censorship. As south-east Asia editor of Global Voices Online, he sees a trend of governments looking to censor freedoms, often using indecency laws to do so.
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, as well as music and online video sites like YouTube, are the most productive ways employees can relax at work, according to new Melbourne University research.
Searching for information about hobbies, reading online news, playing online games and checking personal email was also likely ...
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
The former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has started a Twitter account to promote his foundation and a book he is writing.
Since he left office in 2006, Mr Rumsfeld, pictured, has kept a low profile. His book and online foray may represent a bid to repair his image.
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
The long arm of the law just got longer, with Victoria Police revealing they have used Facebook to serve an intervention order on a man who "threatened, bullied and harassed" a former partner on the social networking site.
Victoria Police said the offender used Facebook to intimidate a woman in August ...
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Monday, October 18th, 2010
User privacy is the priority for internet social networking site Facebook, which has come under fire from users for its privacy settings, the company's director of market development said on Sunday in Dubai.
"Privacy, I would say, is the number one most important thing for our company, and we're always listening ...
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Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Microsoft is starting to incorporate what your friends do on Facebook right into its Bing search engine.
The software maker began rolling out a new feature Wednesday US time that can show what someone's Facebook friends "like" on the search results page.
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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Journalists may not use information from the Facebook accounts of their "friends", a Danish media tribunal ruled today in a case pitting the prime minister's brother against a tabloid.
"Information on closed profiles are reserved to people - the Facebook 'friends' - who have been authorised to access the profile," the ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Even if you delete incriminating photos on your Facebook profile, the company is keeping them accessible to anyone online for up to 30 months.
The social networking site admitted it had been keeping deleted photos for a "limited" amount of time.
But users who have kept the direct link to photos that ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Elisa Baker, the stepmother of missing Zahra Baker, describes herself on her MySpace page as a "Gothic" and said in one posting that "your kids rip your heart out."
Baker, 42, has been described as a "person of interest" by Hickory police in what investigators now say is a homicide case.
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
A prank by a group of online trolls, including several Australians, has whipped conservative US commentators into a lather over what they claimed was a gang of progressive "e-thugs" formed by the Democrats to smear the Tea Party movement.
In a 13 minute online conspiracy video, dubbed "Twittergate", extreme right-wing US ...
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