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dantynan
Member since: March 2010
Follow Dan on Google+Author Dan Tynan has been writing about Internet privacy for the last 3,247 years. He wrote a book on the topic for O'Reilly Media (Computer Privacy Annoyances, now available for only $15.56 at Amazon -- order yours today) and edited a series of articles on Net privacy for PC World that were finalists for a National Magazine Award. During his spare time he is part of the dynamic duo behind eSarcasm, the not-yet-award-winning geek humor site he tends along with JR Raphael.
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Well it’s been an exciting week here at TY4NS.
1 day 19 hours ago
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Miami-based Hey Dude Skin Care is on a mission to help men get “dudified” by taking control of their personal grooming. Like a lot of small businesses, it uses a Facebook page to promote its services.
3 days 22 hours ago
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According to their Facebook profiles, Mandy Barnes, Jasmine Wilson, May Price and Mindy Bennett have a lot in common. So do Meredith Gonzales, Sonja Watson, Lucia Long and Meredith Baker.
5 days 20 hours ago
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dantynan commented on This is the golden age of Facebook privacy
yes. odd, because I corrected that yesterday. I suspect ITworld's recent switchover restored the version with the typo in it. thanx.
Well, it’s now official: Facebook is planning to offer shares to the public starting this Friday at $34 to $38 a pop. Get yours while they’re hot.1 week 2 days ago | Read Article
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I got a robo-call to my cell phone the other day. Usually I ignore these things, but this one piqued my interest. The call was from a group calling itself “Political Opinions of America.org,” and it wanted my opinions about issues of the day.
1 week 2 days ago
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Well, it’s now official: Facebook is planning to offer shares to the public starting this Friday at $34 to $38 a pop. Get yours while they’re hot.
1 week 4 days ago
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A little report in a New Zealand newspaper is getting a ton of attention over on this side of Middle Earth. It seems that Facebook is testing out a scheme in which ordinary users can pay for the privilege of promoting their own posts.
1 week 5 days ago
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A little report in a New Zealand newspaper is getting a ton of attention over on this side of Middle Earth. It seems that Facebook is testing out a scheme in which ordinary users can pay for the privilege of promoting their own posts.
1 week 5 days ago
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A little report in a New Zealand newspaper is getting a ton of attention over on this side of Middle Earth. It seems that Facebook is testing out a scheme in which ordinary users can pay for the privilege of promoting their own posts.
1 week 5 days ago
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A little report in a New Zealand newspaper is getting a ton of attention over on this side of Middle Earth. It seems that Facebook is testing out a scheme in which ordinary users can pay for the privilege of promoting their own posts.
1 week 5 days ago
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dantynan commented on Are the Feds spying on your Facebook account?Worried that Facebook is selling you out to advertisers and marketers? Consider yourself lucky. You could live in Tunisia, where the government is waging war on its citizens and trying to squelch dissent by stealing their passwords and hacking their blogs, email, and Facebook accounts.
1 year 19 weeks ago | Read Article
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dantynan commented on 10 stupid social media predictions for 2011As I write this there are but a few hours left of 2010, which I believe will be remembered as the year Facebook became the dominant force on the InterWebs, supplanting even mighty Google in its reach and depth.
1 year 20 weeks ago | Read Article
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Forbes blogger Elizabeth Woyke found herself in some deep kimchee this week. Her crime?
1 year 22 weeks ago | Read Article
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Forbes blogger Elizabeth Woyke found herself in some deep kimchee this week. Her crime?
1 year 23 weeks ago | Read Article
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dantynan commented on Anatomy of a Facebook lynchingCooks Source, a small regional food magazine that found itself at the swirling hot center of a copyright controversy two weeks ago, has served up its last helping of rehash.
1 year 26 weeks ago | Read Article
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dantynan commented on How to murder a Flash cookie zombieThe more I use Adobe Flash, the more I understand why Steve Jobs hates it. I can't tell you how many times a misbehaving Flash video has crashed my browser and/or slowed my system to sludge. Happens at least once a week.
1 year 38 weeks ago | Read Article
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Jim Harper is a smart guy. I've had the pleasure of interviewing him on several occasions, and I've always appreciated his contrarian views on privacy even when I didn't agree with them.
1 year 40 weeks ago | Read Article
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So I was wasting time on Facebook yesterday, procrastinating my 237 overdue deadlines, when I noticed something odd.
1 year 40 weeks ago | Read Article
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dantynan commented on Is Facebook finally getting a real 'delete' key?Rumors are swirling Facebook may be adding an actual "Delete Account" option to its service.
1 year 43 weeks ago | Read Article
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So I was wasting time on Facebook yesterday, procrastinating my 237 overdue deadlines, when I noticed something odd.
1 year 50 weeks ago | Read Article
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dantynan commented on My advice to Facebook: Ask permission, dammitLord knows there's been a lot of debate about Facebook's attitude toward its 400+ million members' privacy.
2 years 1 day ago | Read Article
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Want to hear some good news? We now know exactly how much your Facebook profile is worth on the open market: Between 25 and 45 cents, depending on whether you have more than 10 friends. The bad news? How we found out.
2 years 4 weeks ago | Read Article
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dantynan commented on The unvarnished truth about Unvarnished, part IContrary to popular opinion, Peter Kazanjy is not trying to make the Internet a safer place for slander.
2 years 6 weeks ago | Read Article
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dantynan commented on The unvarnished truth about Unvarnished, part IContrary to popular opinion, Peter Kazanjy is not trying to make the Internet a safer place for slander.
2 years 6 weeks ago | Read Article
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dantynan commented on The unvarnished truth about Unvarnished, part IContrary to popular opinion, Peter Kazanjy is not trying to make the Internet a safer place for slander.
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