One new article link has been added to our Related News page. TechCrunch published an article titled Source: Facebook Is Building FB@Work.
The phrase “Facebook at work” usually suggests people frittering away the day on the social network and not actually doing their jobs. But according to an anonymous source inside Facebook, the company is working on a way to put the social network into a more positive light in the office. It is building an at-work version of Facebook.
Source: TechCrunch
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Mail Online published an article titled Is Twitter making you STUPID? Social networking sites are making it hard for people to think for themselves.
They have become a quick and easy way of learning about everything from world affairs to the affairs of friends.
But Twitter and Facebook may be eroding our ability to think.
Researchers believe speed, volume and ease with which information is shared through social networking sites may be making it more difficult for us to think analytically.
Source: Mail Online
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNET published an article titled Facial recognition app matches strangers to online profiles.
Soon your face could be your calling card. An upcoming app for Android, iOS, and Google Glass called NameTag will allow you to photograph strangers and find out who they are — complete with social networking and online dating profiles.
Spot someone out and about that you want to identify, and you can capture their face using your device’s camera. The app will send the photo wirelessly to NameTag’s server, where it will compare the photo to millions of online records and return with a name, more photos, and social-media profiles, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, where the person (or their friends) might have publicly posted photos of themselves.
Source: CNET
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Fox News published an article titled Facebook apologizes for dating ad with photo of Canada teen who died after bullying.
Facebook is apologizing for a stunningly inappropriate advertisement featuring a photograph of a Canada teen who died after months of bullying.
The advertisement was posted on the world’s largest social networking site on Tuesday where it was discovered by Andrew Ennals, a copy writer, who took a screen grab of the photo.
Source: Fox News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN Money published an article titled New video law lets you share your Netflix viewing on Facebook.
Netflix is now free to create a U.S. Facebook app that shares users’ viewing history if they opt in, after the company successfully lobbied Congress to amend a 1988 law.
A Netflix spokesman said the company “will launch social features in the U.S.” sometime in 2013. The law in question, called the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), previously prohibited “a video tape service provider” from revealing customer information without the customer’s written consent.
Source: CNN Money
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. NEWSER published an article titled Indiana Man Charged With ‘Sextortion’.
(Newser) – The FBI has arrested an Indiana man who allegedly blackmailed 14-year-old boys into uploading sexually explicit images and videos of themselves, MSNBC reports. According to chilling court documents, Richard Leon Finkbiner, 39, befriended the boys online and enticed them into uploading the explicit material. He then threatened to show it to friends or family if they wouldn’t upload more. Worse, evidence on Finkbiner’s computer suggests “several hundred” other victims of roughly the same age.
Source: NEWSER
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Orlando Sentinel published an article titled Child-porn suspect hears loving voices of little girls, feds say.
A Central Florida man under investigation in a child-pornography case told agents this week that he hears voices of girls saying they love him, according to a criminal complaint filed in Orlando federal court Tuesday.
Source: Orlando Sentinel
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