Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace
Social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos.
Your Facebook profile will live on after you are gone
Do you worry that your friends in cyberspace will quickly forget about you after you've passed on? Well, don't: Facebook will keep your profile as a memorial.
How to extract your LinkedIn, Facebook contacts
It's hard to grow your social networks, but it's even harder to get your contacts out. Enter a Web service called OpenXchange.
Are you being scammed by Facebook ads?
I've written a bit lately about how cyberthieves using social media to scam people. It turns out the most egregious scammers are many "legitimate" companies that run deceptive ads on these networks.
Tweeting at the office: Have you checked your contract?
Hey you -- the developer sitting in that suburban cube farm, happily twittering away about going to lunch, the bug report you're filing, and that startup idea that's been bouncing around your head lately. We hate to break it to you, but the work contract that you signed gives your company ownership of those tweets ... not to mention any Facebook posts, LinkedIn profile updates, and YouTube videos that you may have worked on or uploaded from a work machine or over your company's network.
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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