Facebook’s new privacy options make it easier for business users to show different personal information to business contacts and personal friends. However, users will have to be willing to navigate the new privacy options to divide their personal information between their professional and personal contacts. Although not difficult, Facebook’s new privacy options require time to […]
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Real-time search is getting bigger everyday with two search engine heavyweights Google and Bing vying for top dog in the fast-moving real-time search space. Bing has launched a real-time search service that returns results based on Twitter and Facebook popularity. Bing’s real-time search shows a search tag cloud which displays current popular search terms from […]
A recent Facebook study conducted by computer security experts at Sophos shows a significant percentage of Facebook users are willing to share their personal information with total strangers, making them easy targets for online identity theft. The Sophos Facebook study involved the creation of two fake user profiles: a 21-year-old named ‘Daisy Felettin’ with a […]
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On August 13, 2009 Evan Ratliff, a writer for Wired Magazine, who had written about the faked deaths and intentional disappearances of other people in past articles, began his own hi-tech game of hide and go seek when he left San Francisco that evening on a travel adventure that involved evading being found for a […]
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The Pentagon’s Darpa research agency is sponsoring a search challenge to individuals and groups in an effort to learn more about online behavior. The contest calls for people to find 10 red balloons which can be located anywhere in the continental United States. The winner of the contest will receive a $40,000 prize, and it […]
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