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September 26 2011
The Onion -- California To Allow Prisoners To Serve Sentences Online
'Faced with a mandate to cut the state's prison population by 30,000, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Monday it would begin allowing prisoners to serve their sentences online. "Inmates are required to log in promptly every morning at 6 a.m.," CDCR secretary Matthew Cate said. "But make no mistake, this is not some online holiday resort prison. Offenders spend at least eight hours a day entering data and can only see visitors in the chat room once a week.'September 24 2011
July 09 2011
The Daily Bell -- Wishful Thinking: Why The Economist Wants Social Media to Replace Blogs
'...the dark-suited gentlemen sitting erectly in your office indicating that as a "patriot" and successful businessperson you ought to be helpful to your country, is politely pressuring you. The young man was on a fast track. He wore a hoodie and kept quiet about his government associations. Eventually, like Bill Gates, he'll "donate" his enormous wealth to social causes. Actually, he'll be instructed to. It'll go to some Foundation the Anglosphere elites control. They don't leave outsize fortunes in private hands if they can help it. This is how the elite operates. They both support and control their enablers. One can see it with Julian Assange, another seeming Intel asset. The Economist is trying to present a kind of elite promotion. It is talking up social 'Net media – which the establishment can control fairly easily from the top – at the expense of myriad bloggers and websites. These are the writers and poets one could compare fairly to pamphleteers of days past. Not Zuckerberg.'May 19 2011
Adweek -- Axe Embellishes Your Relationship Status on Facebook
'Axe has come up with a mildly amusing Facebook app for young men that generates a fake relationship-status update to make it appear as though the user is involved with hundreds of women at the same time. When friends click on the update link, it takes them to an Axe Facebook app page, where they can install the custom relationship app themselves.' -- DragnetsApril 08 2011
O'Reilly Radar -- Amygdala FarmVille
'I can only imagine the reaction in the boardrooms of those traditional firms when Facebook and Google built their Psychographic Marketing Honeypots and disguised them as a social network and a search engine. "All that data we've worked so hard to source! Merde! People just sit there all day giving it to them!" Faust at least knew the terms of his agreement. Here's what you need to know: Your mind is advanced enough to experience a self, a self that you think has intrinsic value. But that's just a construction in your head. Your actual extrinsic value, I'm sorry to say, is just the sum of your known behaviors and the predictive model they make possible. The stuff you think of as "your data" and the web thinks of as "our data about you — read the ToS," is the grist for that mill. And Facebook's shiny front room is just a place for you to behave promiscuously and observably. While you're farming, well, fake carrots or something, they are farming your amygdala.'April 06 2011
Inside Facebook -- Reppler Scans Your Facebook Profile for Objectionable Content and Security Risks
'Reppler is a new online reputation management tool that scans a user’s Facebook profile for objectionable content, privacy leaks, and security threats. The free tool can help users, especially young adults in the job market, ensure that their Facebook profiles don’t jeopardize their future prospects. When users visit the Reppler site, they’re asked for long list of extended permissions. Once granted users must wait a few minutes for their data to be analyzed before seeing the results in four different sections: My Impression, My Inappropriate Content, My Information, and My Privacy and Security Risks. They can also connect their YouTube, Flickr and Picasa account for scanning. While Reppler can’t provide total assurance for one’s reputation yet, it can offer users a reality check of their safety, security and the impression their profile can give.' -- I've seen slave ships off the shores of Orion fire blazin'. (El-P)March 18 2011
Onion News Network -- CIA's "Facebook" Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs
'The CIA's invention of Facebook has saved the government millions of dollars.'March 05 2011
Tehran Times -- Saudi king to buy Facebook to end the revolt: report
'In what is being termed as pure Wall Street Gordon Gecko tactics, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has decided to make an offer of $150 billion to buy out Facebook. Inside sources within the kingdom suggest that the King is very upset with Mark Zukerberg for allowing the revolt to get out of control, Ahlul Bayt News Agency reported. In a personal meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and King Abdullah on Jan 25, 2011, Zuckerberg had promised that he would not allow any revolt pages to be formed on Facebook even while he allowed Egypt and Libya revolt pages to be formed. Left with no option, Abdullah advised by Goldman Sachs has decided to buy out Facebook and “clean out the weeds”. Most analysts believe that Zuckerberg will not take the offer and will wait for King Abdullah to up the offer to at least $500 billion.' -- [Spoof]February 19 2011
HIPSTER RUNOFF -- Mark Zuckerbro has illuminati meeting with Barry Obama and Steve Jobs
'Maybe Zuckerbro has some ideas for a new age democracy where every1 just votes on issues utilizing facebook, and we don't need Congress any more, and Zuckerbro can just ride dictator waves/rig some votes. Is 'technology'/'the internet' really a big deal that deserves national attention, or just another 'fad' that will be outdated 1 day? Are tech CEOs just 'legalized dictators'? Is Mark Zuckerbro trying 2 hard 2 be famous and control the world? It seems like this was some sort of modern illuminati meeting, with every1 who controls the world (because the world = 'the internet') Seems like this was probably some sort of huge meeting to 'control the future of the world.' Here they are toasting to 'enslaving' ppl with less than 100 friends on Facebook and making them do 'data entry enslavement' 4 the rest of time.'January 26 2011
RWW -- Your Facebook Activity is Now an Ad
'Facebook is launching a new ad format called "Sponsored Stories," which allows participating advertisers to promote your Facebook activity by turning it into homepage ads seen only by your friends. This activity can include liking a Facebook page, checking in via Facebook Places or sharing content to the News Feed from a Facebook application. With Facebook's Sponsored Stories, your activity is now up for grabs, available to the advertiser associated with the brand, business or app you interacted with. Just checked in to a restaurant? That's an ad. Just liked a brand? That's an ad. Just shared a news story from the Web? That's an ad. -- ...it's unclear what level of control advertisers have here. It's important though, because real personalized recommendations work both ways - they deliver the good news and the bad. Without both sides represented, this is just a new way to spam your friends.'December 30 2010
The Daily Bell -- The Social Networking Buzz
'We think we can tell a sub dominant social theme when we see one. Social network companies get a lot of press and attention because they represent the controllable side of the Internet, in our view. Social networking is the "softer side" of the Internet from a power elite standpoint. A small intergenerational, familial elite has seen its secrecy ripped asunder by the Internet. But these sites, especially Facebook with some 500 million users, are far less challenging to elite plans for global centralization. If anything, one could argue that such networks offer the kind of naïve openness and frivolity that the elite is pleased to take advantage of. Social networking is perhaps a preferable Internet construct. It also provides a far more controllable template for manipulating public use of electronic communications. Outfits like the CIA never create ventures, but they do apparently encourage the growth of the ones that they deem most useful.'August 23 2010
Behance Network -- Human Facebook Default Avatar
'The aim of this project is to humanize the Facebook default avatar provided at the first login.'Behance Network -- Human Facebook Default Avatar
'The aim of this project is to humanize the Facebook default avatar provided at the first login.'
Human Facebook Default Avatar Project (by TWO)
via: www.behance.net/gallery/Human-Facebook-Default-Avatar/614675
via: www.behance.net/gallery/Human-Facebook-Default-Avatar/614675
August 19 2010
BBC -- Facebook's battle with privacy and profit
'It is a game of privacy cat and mouse that has prompted some users to rebel and others to unconsciously outsmart Facebook. Social technology commentator Laurent Haug believes changes to the privacy settings are altering the way people use Facebook. "People understood that their privacy was at risk and therefore they will falsify the information. Fewer of us are putting down our real details, many of us fabricate our lives online and some even have multiple identities on Facebook. There is a real possibility then that much of the personal data Facebook has been collecting from us might actually be false.' -- Haha! Poison the well.August 03 2010
Wikipedia -- You Have 0 Friends
'Kyle, Cartman and Kenny make Stan a Facebook profile against his will and he becomes embroiled and frustrated with everyone asking him for friend requests. Cartman introduces Kyle to Chatroulette as a way to make new friends, but all Kyle finds are men masturbating on webcam. Meanwhile Stan now has almost a million friends on his account and has decided to commit "online suicide" by deleting his account only to find Facebook refuses to allow him to. Instead of deleting his account, he is forcibly transported by the software into the virtual world of Facebook, where he meets "profiles" of everyone he knows, who talk to him in Facebook language, and is forced to engage in Facebook activities such as Yahtzee.'July 30 2010
Gizmodo -- Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent
'Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested. Here are the major companies that are downloading the torrent.' -- Leaky is as leaky does.July 29 2010
(by WordStream)
via/by/credit: www.wordstream.com/articles/google-privacy-internet-privacy
via/by/credit: www.wordstream.com/articles/google-privacy-internet-privacy
July 14 2010
BBC -- Facebook unveils child safety 'panic button'
POKE. PANIC. SNITCH.May 23 2010
Software Freedom Law Center -- Freedom In the Cloud (Anti-Facebook Rant)
'What do we need? We need a really good webserver you can put in your pocket and plug in any place. It should know how to collect all your stuff out of the social networking places where you’ve got it. It should know how to send an encrypted backup of everything to your friends’ servers. It should know how to microblog. ...it should know how to be you in a free net that works for you and keeps the logs. You can always tell what’s happening in your server and if anybody wants to know what’s happening in your server they can get a search warrant. Then we go to people and we say $29.99 once for a lifetime, great social networking, updates automatically, software so strong you couldn’t knock it over it you kicked it, used in hundreds of millions of servers all over the planet doing a wonderful job. You know what? You get “no spying” for free. -- Mr. Zuckerberg richly deserves bankruptcy. Let’s give it to him. For Free.'
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