Word: spam
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...pretty worthless and annoying applications too. At Facebook, app writers' income is derived from advertising based on the number of people who install their programs, and a bunch have adapted in intrusive ways. Facebook has taken flak for applications like FunWall, which made it easy for users to accidentally spam their entire friend lists with e-mail invites to install FunWall. Zuckerberg says Facebook is tweaking its platform to help the most useful apps to spread while squelching the junk...
...disciplinary purposes—a clear violation of even a basic student right to privacy. This year also saw mounting pressure for FAS to outsource the provision of its antiquated e-mail services to a third party. FAS Webmail continues to lack the features—such as adequate spam filters or storage—and the convenience of rivals such as Gmail, a service which more than half of Harvard students use as their primary e-mail client, according to surveys. Harvard should follow the lead of the Graduate School of Design, which recently began outsourcing the provision...
...This is Hurricane Preparedness Week, and although Florida Governor Charlie Crist is touring the peninsula, urging folks to stock up on Spam in case a big one knocks out the electric stove, you'd be hard-pressed to find Miamians shaking in their flip-flops. The bottom line for civilians like me is that while we appreciate the climatologists' efforts, these long-term forecasts have often ended up causing more confusion or complacency than preparedness. And now, to make the outlook even cloudier, we have a new study debunking the idea that global warming is intensifying hurricane activity - a study...
...Harvard undergraduates used Gmail as their primary email client, up from 38 percent the year before. It’s no surprise that so many students are jumping ship to get on board the Google bandwagon. Webmail is plagued with problems, notably its poor interface, lack of adequate spam filters, limited user names, and miniscule storage capacity of 40 megabytes. FAS Information Technology claims to be working to respond to these student concerns, but change has been slow in coming. While various improvements have supposedly been considered, concrete plans for reform are yet to emerge. Meanwhile, the Graduate School...
...president of the Harvard Computer Society Joshua A. Kroll ’09 said. “One gigabyte is so big that most people would be quelled, and there are a number of free Webmail clients available.”Kroll added that Webmail’s spam filters could also be improved.In FAS IT’s survey, only two percent of students were very satisfied with FAS Webmail, while 23 percent were very dissatisfied, up from 16 percent last year.“I wish it were as easy as saying we could just outsource to Gmail...