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...chat program. Harvard students said they were ambivalent about the launch, which Facebook engineer Josh Wiseman called on the official Facebook blog “a new way to communicate with your friends in real-time.” A new chat bar appears at the bottom of the user??s browser when signed into Facebook, showing the online status of the user and other friends signed on the networking site. Availability is indicated by a green dot similar to the one on Google’s Gmail chat. Facebook acknowledged yesterday on its blog post that...
...study, looked at the top 150 Facebook applications and what information they require in order to run. She concluded that only 9.3 percent of these applications required private information—yet Facebook currently gives all applications access to the information. Felt said that application developers can see a user??s birthday, religion, sexual orientation, relationship status, past schools and photos—though not a person’s contact information. “Currently, Facebook gives permissions for applications to view all the users’ information,” Felt said. According to the company?...
Blockbuster and Coca-Cola want to be your friend. Earlier this week, Facebook launched an advertising application that gives Facebook profile pages to companies and allow users to identify themselves as fans of that company’s products. Activity about the products will pop up on a user??s news feed, sometimes with links to the company’s Web sites. Companies can buy advertisements that would appear beneath the news feed announcements, as well as banner ads mentioning people who endorse certain products. John G. Palfrey ’94, the executive director...
...Seuken. Seuken said he believes this bartering aspect of BitTorrent promotes fairness in the short-term, but when the minute users are done with their immediate download, they stop contributing to the network. Among Tribler’s distinctive features is a decentralized accounting system that tracks a user??s uploads and downloads to the network, creating a strong incentive to upload in order to accumulate currency that can later be translated into faster downloads in the future. A user may choose to leave his computer on at night, uploading material, so that...
...paper, Mayer-Schoenberger writes that a limit should be set on how long information remains personally identifiable. While Google announced in March that it would make server logs anonymous after 18 to 24 months, the rest of the internet has not taken such steps toward protecting a user??s privacy. The purpose of Mayer-Schoenberger’s paper is to begin to create a discussion on the topic and, he hopes, lead to a new law allowing people to choose just what information about them remains forever recorded on the internet. “Is this government...