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- How In Two Moves Twitter Kills an Ecosystem September 8, 2010
- Ping me here, there and … wait, Apple branded Ping? September 1, 2010
- Book review : Head First WordPress August 31, 2010
- Gmail new Priority Inbox – I just ignored you August 30, 2010
- GroupMe – group SMS and conference calling free August 26, 2010
privacy
Hiding your Facebook pics? So you thought
I found this twist to Facebook security settings rather interesting. it all started from a story I read on AllFacebook.com. A quick snippet from their posting:
Earlier this week I noticed that one of my friends had made their Facebook profile photos no longer visible. I wasn’t sure if this was because they had put me… »
ReputationDefender – a scam in my eyes
I ran across a site under the url MyReputation.com that offered a bunch of monitoring services to watch your name, kid’s names or company brand. I was suddenly disheartened to see the costs associated with the “service” you can do for free. Let’s focus on ReputationDefender for MyChild since this blog covers a lot on… »
Is it too easy to find kids personal information on Facebook?
The first thing we should mention is that Facebook does have a stated policy that children under 13 should not use Facebook and those children ages 13-18 should seek parental permission. More on that policy may be found here. A brief subset of the policy states:
Facebook does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from… »
Reverse location broadcasting
Are stars humans? Do they have private lives? Imagine if everytime you attempted to go to the store, buy a coffeee or eat with friends and family they took pictures and asked for autographs? Sounds tough. But now let’s take it to the next step. Imagine if someone was broadcasting, not just to their friend… »
Hiding Yourself from Stalking with Private Numbers
One of the ways, we as humans, like to communicate is still the telephone. In the world of social networking, who knows the reality of who the other person is on the other side of your conversations is. That is until you have met them in real life. So how do we get to that… »
Where Is Your Username Registered – reversed into a stalking tool
While we were recording Episode 9 of TheSocialGeeks podcast, one of the sites mentioned was UserNameCheck.com , a cool utility. It basically runs through almost 70 social sites (last time I counted) and verifies if your desired username is available. From there you could pick a new name that was open everywhere or go add… »
Stalking via SMS – you are unprotected
Interestingly enough, Oprah had a show on that brought up an issue of their child receiving unwanted text messages on the child’s phone. While we make look at a simple text as harmless, the social pressure and stalking issue raises a thought. How do kids handle and protect themselves from stalking via SMS messages. it… »