Amidst the sudden ascent of LinkedIn, Twitter, Groupon, and of course, Facebook, it’s easy to forget that social media actually has a bit of a history going back more than 30 years. Really? Law firm Morrison & Foerster has put together just such a timeline graphic of online communities in its latest issue of Socially …
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Operation Facebook, Hacktivists Rise Up!
Over the years I’ve noticed a love-hate relationship with Facebook developing. On the one hand, it seems like a marketing dream. On the other hand it’s a parent’s worst nightmare. When you consider the amount of information Facebook can now access via a user’s cellphone it indeed becomes scary. Smartphones with their tight integration into social …
Imagine a world without Social Networking
Imagine there’s no Facebook It’s easy if you try No “Friends” or “Status” No pages you can “Like” Imagine all the people Living yesterday… Imagine there’s no Linkedin It isn’t hard to do No “Add connections” No “People you may know” Imagine all the people Living in the past… You may say, I’m a luddite …
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15 Minutes with Ramon Thomas
This interview was compiled for a weekly feature in the Daily Dispatch newspaper in East London: Online behaviour expert Ramon Thomas talks to the Dispatch about technology and how it affects you. Profiles will appear at www.dispatch.co.za Q: YOU describe yourself as being an online behaviour expert. What does that entail? A: My field of research …
Worm attacks Facebook, MySpace users running Microsoft Windows
Gareth Roberts, a new member of the team here at NETucation, alerted me to a new computer worm that attacks Facebook and MySpace users. One very important piece of information left out of most of the news reports on News24 or MyADSL is that ONLY on users running Microsoft Windows are prone to this attract. …
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