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August 15th, 2010 - 7:26 pm § in Tech

The Dark Side of Social Media Privacy. A must read!

At PodCamp Toronto yesterday, one of the intriguing sessions was Brad Buset’s presentation about privacy, and how there needs to be more awareness of how much information we’re disclosing via social networks. It’s an issue that has been lost in the shuffle amid the excitement about sharing [...]

May 8th, 2010 - 1:07 pm § in Tech

Moving to Twitter

Glitch Brings New Worries About Facebook’s Privacy – NYTimes.com. I must confess that, aside from the very easy-to-upload-&-share photo albums, Facebook has been rather useless lately. I ignore all applications, games, send a heart, send a dinosaur, send a stone, etc. Plus, quite a few o[...]

February 13th, 2010 - 10:39 am § in Tech

Google Buzz anyone?

Excerpt: “SAN FRANCISCO — When Google introduced Buzz — its answer to Facebook and Twitter — it hoped to get the service off to a fast start. New users of Buzz, which was added to Gmail on Tuesday, found themselves with a ready-made network of friends automatically selected by the compan[...]

February 6th, 2010 - 10:04 pm § in Tech

Should we boycott Facebook?

Excerpt: ”I don’t really use Facebook but plenty of my friends do. They might be interested to know that the social network giant growth appears to be powered by coal, the number 1 cause of climate change. In late January, Facebook announced that its new Oregon data center, the data cen[...]

May 30th, 2009 - 10:26 pm § in Tech

MySpace Vs. Facebook Vs. No social network at all

(from my MySpace page) I opened this MySpace account back in 2005 I think, and I haven’t started using it until 3 years later. I guess this shows my love to social networking. I also have a Facebook account now and more than once I’ve been tempted to close either MySpace or Facebook, but[...]