Recent Posts Tagged With 'facebook'

• Gaydar, Facebook and privacy

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 08:00 in Privacy, social network, social media, semantic web, facebook, machine learning, datamining, social graph

  In the Fall of 2007, two MIT students carried out a class project exploring how presumably private data could be inferred from an online social networking system. Their experiment was to predict the sexual orientation of Facebook users who make thei...

• Canada: facebook violates privacy law

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 12:20 in Privacy, social media, facebook

  APF and others report that Canada considers facebook’s practices to violate its privacy law. “Canadian officials on Thursday said Facebook was breaking national privacy law by holding on to personal information from closed accounts at th...

• facebook demographics: biggest growth in older users

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 08:48 in web, social media, facebook

  SFGate.com reports that Most Facebook users are older, study finds. “Long a hangout for college students, the social-networking giant has morphed into a virtual parlor for the middle-aged, according to a new study. People 35 to 54 are now the...

• Changes in FaceBook default privacy policy

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 12:40 in web, Security, Privacy, social, social media, facebook

  FaceBook is changing how it manages privacy starting today. After reading last week’s post on the FaceBook blog, More Ways to Share in the Publisher, and a followup note on ReadWriteWeb, A Closer Look at Facebook’s New Privacy Options, I ...

• Google is from Mars, Facebook is from Venus

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 06:25 in google, social media, facebook

  Wired has an interesting article on Facebook vs. Google, Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out. “Today, the Google-Facebook rivalry isn’t just going strong, it has evolve...

• Facebook blinks, reverts to old Terms of Service agreement

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 06:50 in blogging, Privacy, social media, facebook

  Late last night Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post, Update on Terms, that they have rolled back the recent changes to their Terms of Service agreement and restored the previous one. “Many of us at Facebook spent most of tod...

• Facebook owns your content. All of it. Forever.

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 19:37 in Privacy, social media, facebook

  2/18 Update: FB reverted its TOS to the previous version early on 18 Feb 2009. Consumerist has a post on a change in Facebook’s Terms of Service agreement that became effective on 4 February: Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Ca...

• 25 random things about me bubble

  Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 11:41 in social media, facebook

  I thought the informal statistics from mentioned in this short USA Today story, Facebook friends share ‘25 Things’ with the world, were interesting. (Emphasis added) “If you are a member of the 150-million-strong Facebook nation, ...