The problem of fake personals profiles on dating sites is a problem for real users of those sites. A personals profile verification service CheckedProfile has launched in the US to help people with this problem. People upload a picture of themselves on CheckedProfile.com. CheckedProfile givers the person a unique identifier for the picture. The person […]
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According to a recent survey conducted by CareerBuilder, 45% of employers reported using social networks to screen prospective job candidates. This is a significant jump from 22 percent last year. Approximately 11 percent stated that they plan to start using social networks to research potential employees in the future. Over 2,600 hiring managers were included […]
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The New York State Supreme Court has ordered Google to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who posted defamatory comments about model Liskula Cohen on Google’s Blogger site. Google fought to keep the blogger’s identity anonymous. However a judge ordered Google to hand over the blogger’s internet IP address, rejecting the legal claim that […]
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The snitch.name site let’s users search people profiles on multiple social networks and people search sites. Users can pick and choose which sites to search from a list of 39 of the top social networks and people search engines. Some of the searches that snitch.name includes in their list are useless at best, but the […]
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A recent study by a US marketing firm suggests that as much as 40% of tweets on Twitter are ‘pointless babble’. Pear Analytics randomly sampled 2,000 tweets from Twitter’s public stream and divided them into six categories: news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and pass-along value. Pear found that 811 of the sampled tweets ( […]
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