Discussion: On the night before their $16 billion dollar IPO, Facebook employees participated in its traditional 31st annual all night “hackathon”, instead of drinking champagne and celebrating. The only requirement is that employees work on a project that they would normally not do during their day job. The reward for the all night “hackathon” is a t-shirt,… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Mark Zuckerberg
What scares Facebook: Privacy and phones
Discussion: In big news last week, Facebook filed to become a publicly traded company under the stock symbol FB. In its prospectus, it listed privacy issues and smart phones as potential threats to the company. It remains to be seen at what price Facebook will initially offer its stocks, but there are even certain bookies… Read more »
Brief glitch let Facebook users see private photos
Discussion: A glitch in Facebook, discovered Tuesday, let users view photos marked as ‘private’ even if they weren’t a ‘friend’ of the poster. The Facebook flaw highlights how easy it is to view, and even mistakenly view, personal information that is posted on Facebook, even if it is supposedly restricted to specific users. Because of… Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg’s 650 Million Friends (and Counting)
Source: Newsweek.com Date: March 6, 2011 Link: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/06/mark-zuckerberg-s-650-million-friends-and-counting.html#
The Internet and the ‘end of privacy’
Discussion: As people share more information about themselves online, the Internet has created a public transcript of consciousness – storing our thoughts, locations, social lives, and memories in data warehouses all over the world. With a scarcity of effective methods to manage online privacy and digital marketers always lurking in cyber space, some privacy advocates… Read more »
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