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Facebook users planning their next vacations can now easily consult their friends' opinions, thanks to a comprehensive new recommendation service from TripAdvisor.
The feature uses Facebook's Instant Personalization platform to generate travel recommendations based on the cities your friends have visited, their most popular destinations, and their personal reviews of each place. All this ...
If your Web site's privacy policy is longer than the entire U.S. Constitution, it's probably a sign that you need to streamline things just a bit. Fortunately for Facebook users, Mark Zuckerberg seems to have finally gotten the hint. After facing a deluge of consumer complaints and confusion surrounding its newly convoluted approach to privacy, Facebook has apparently decided to unveil a set of ...
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In the past few weeks, spammers and hackers have feasted on Facebook like King Curtis on bacon. Now, however, it looks as if Facebook has finally decided to take some action. Yesterday, the social network announced on its blog that users will soon benefit from a host of new security features specially designed to "keep the bad guys out." From now on, you can choose to be automatically ...
It's official. Facebook's Instant Personalization sucks, and here's why. Last night, security consultant George Deglin discovered a hole in Facebook's new framework that, if correctly manipulated by a savvy hacker, could share a user's name, e-mail and personal data with everyone else on the social network -- without any action from the targeted user. As TechCrunch explains, this specific scheme ...
When it comes to financial regulatory reform, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer may be caught between a rock and a hard place. But when it comes to Facebook reform, the New Yorker finds himself spearheading a movement that, if successful, would enhance the transparency of the social networking site's data-sharing practices.
According to a press release from Schumer's office, the Senator has written ...
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As we dig deeper and deeper into the announcements that came out of Facebook's F8 developer conference this week, we're finding more things to worry about when it comes to online privacy. We've already discussed the problems with the company's new data retention policies, but what about the centerpiece of its new push, Instant Personalization?
The idea is simple enough. Websites ...
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On the plane to LA for my 13th E3. Will have to photoshop Jason on all my photos this week.
Let's get to 1k followers. What do you like best? Ambiguous laments about my personal life, snide cultural commentary, or, you know, fashun?
Manu Ginobli looks like Roberto Benigni.
Guys, I lost my phone. $700, a punch in the arm, and a land whale later I have a new one. #wompwomp
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