Katherine Losse was employee 51 at Facebook. She rose from a position as an early customer service rep to become ghostwriter on Zuckerberg’s blog. Disenchanted with amount of information gathered on users, and also the influence Facebook has on personal communication, Losse left Facebook and wrote a book, “The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the …
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RockYou was hacked a couple of weeks ago and over 35 million passwords were stolen. RockYou may have your password if you’ve played any of their Social Networking Applications on sites like Facebook or MySpace. Their applications include Slideshow Uploadphoto Photofx Glittertext Funnotes Countdown Superhug Myspace layouts Stickers Superwall Pieces of flair Speedracing Likeness Hugme …
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Earlier today I started getting status updates from friends that read If you don’t know, as of today, Facebook will automatically index all your publicly available info on Google, which allows everyone to view it. To change this option, go to Settings –> Privacy Settings –> Search –> then UN-CLICK the box that says ‘Allow …
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Facebook has rolled out new security settings this week. It seems designed to confuse and lead people into sharing more info than ever. If you are one of the 20% of Facebook users who as adjusted their privacy settings previously than Facebook will make your old settings the default but encourage you to change it. …
I installed the Facebook Connect Plugin for MovableType. Its supposed to allow you to login using Facebook credentials and share the comment back to your Facebook wall. The login seems to be working sort of ok in Firefox (once I allowed all the Facebook javascript to run). But in IE, its not working at all. …