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Terrorism: Anonymous Operation Facebook, Nov. 5, 2011
Contributed by Rick DeVan on August 12, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET
FYI
Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Terrorism
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Readings: Facebook, Google, and All the Rest
Contributed by Rick DeVan on May 14, 2011 at 10:08 am ET
Resource: How big firms bash their rivals, in public and private the BBC.
Facebook’s campaign to plant negative stories about Google is not the first such behind-the-scenes tactic employed by a major firm, and it is unlikely to be the last.
An insightful analysis and perspective on the Facebook/Google debacle that flared up in the news this week.
Filed under News and Announcements, Readings
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Privacy: Facebook Profile Access Leaked (?)
Contributed by Rick DeVan on May 11, 2011 at 8:47 am ET
Resource: Facebook profile access ‘leaked’ claims Symantec via the BBC.
Access to hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts may have accidentally been leaked because of a flaw in some applications.
Another possible leak.
Filed under Media
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Readings: Facebook’s Sophomoric Legacy: Outrage
Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 21, 2011 at 6:53 pm ET
Resource: Facebook’s Sophomoric Legacy: Outrage via The Street.
Maybe, just maybe, all the decisions made by the Facebook founder seven years ago, when he was a college sophomore, weren’t all that well-grounded, legally.
There is something to be said for including maturity on your team, no matter what that team is doing.
Resource via The News-Herald.
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Thriv’Ability: Open Compute Project
Contributed by Rick DeVan on April 10, 2011 at 10:43 am ET
Resource: Open Compute Project.
We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.
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But we didn’t want to keep it all for ourselves. Instead, we decided to collaborate with the entire industry and create the Open Compute Project, to share these technologies as they evolve.
Resource: Facebook shares green data centre technology via the BBC.
We tend to forget, dismiss, or be blind to just how much power we are using with the Internet and all this data we are sharing.
Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Technology, Thrivability
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