We’re in a Facebook frenzy this week, so brace yourself. First, Dave tells us about his friend Mari (@MariSmith) who recently discovered that her Facebook privacy settings were causing her some problems. She sent out a tweet about the situation, which involved some trolls she’d blocked from her personal profile making comments on a Fan [...] [...more]
SxSW Interactive may have ended a few weeks ago, but Dave came back with enough new information, ideas and interview clips to fill up podcasts from now until 2011. We (probably) won’t subject you to all of it, but this week we’re featuring what seemed to be one of the hottest topics in Austin: privacy. [...] [...more]
Here’s the consensus in our office: 2010 is pronounced “twenty-ten.” Today we’re talking about snow days – Elizabeth apparently got out of school for rain once. We’re also talking about something you might do during your day off – the Facebook’s Community Council – helping to police for offensive content on Facebook through crowdsourcing. You [...] [...more]
When talking about Loopt and Google Latitude, certain privacy issues come up. Are they grounded? What can the services themselves tell us about their privacy policies? [...more]