Data uses include measuring happiness levels in cities based on Twitter images shared.
Twitter has a 200-million-strong and ever-growing user base that broadcasts 500 million updates daily. It has been lauded for its ability to unsettle repressive political regimes, bring much-neededaccountability to corporations that mistreat their customers, and combat other societal ills (whether such characterizations are, in fact, accurate).
Now, the company has taken aim at disrupting another important sphere of human society: the scientific research community.
In response, computational epidemiologists Caitlin Rivers and Bryan Lewis have proposed guidelines for ethical research practices when using social media data, such as avoiding personally identifiable information and making all the results publicly available.
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Whether or not Twitter and the scientists who have access to the company's data follow such guideposts, one thing is clear—the trend of mining social media data for various purposes won’t be tapering off anytime soon.
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Whether or not Twitter and the scientists who have access to the company's data follow such guideposts, one thing is clear—the trend of mining social media data for various purposes won’t be tapering off anytime soon.
Facebook has acquired the motion tracking app for Android and iPhone 'Moves,' the startup announced today via a blog post. The company's founders say that the..
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Waiting for next company who shows when YOU go to the toilette with that App-Mania!!!
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter today announced WebScaleSQL, a collaborative project bringing the engineers from these companies together to solve challenges working with massive databases. As its name suggests, WebScaleSQL is a custom version of MySQL designed for large scale Web companies.
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Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter today announced WebScaleSQL, a collaborative project bringing the engineers from these companies together to solve challenges working with massive databases. As its name suggests, WebScaleSQL is a custom version of MySQL designed for large scale Web companies.
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===> HOW will YOU escape from PRIVACY issues!? <===
Twitter is shelving a project that would encrypt direct messages sent through its network, a report claims.
The social media giant is allegedly giving up encrypting private direct messages, which would make it more difficult for hackers and government officials to intercept Twitter messages without the rights to do so.
The social media giant is allegedly giving up encrypting private direct messages, which would make it more difficult for hackers and government officials to intercept Twitter messages without the rights to do so.
Since November last year, 93,788 Twitter users - who thought their micro-blogging updates were private and protected - were being silently snooped upon.
Twitter has now fixed the embarrassing privacy flaw, and apologised to the victims.
First, I love headlines that stretch the truth a bit. No one outside of Google got their Glass before March of last year. I got mine on the second day they were available, which was ...
So, what would I do if I were Google? Reset expectations. Say “this is really a product for 2020 that we’re gonna build with you.” First release is in 2014, but let’s be honest, if it’s $600 and dorky looking, it’ll be doomed — as long as expectations are so high.
Security researcher Egor Homakov has discovered a Twitter vulnerability which allows apps to send DMs without requiring explicit user permission. TNW has verified the findings and can ...
The microblogging site adds a new security measure designed to make it harder for organizations like the National Security Agency to uncover its data. Read this article by Donna Tam on CNET News.
Facebook aurait reçu des autorités européennes 8 500 demandes d'informations utilisateurs au premier semestre 2013, dont 1 500 effectuées par la France.
Facebook just eliminated your ability to block people from searching for you by name. Here's a guide for tweaking what's left.
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It's important to note that once you post something on Facebook, or any other social network, it's no longer private, period.
While Facebook makes it fairly easy to control with whom you share information, the best way to keep your information private is to not post it anywhere in the first place.
Mwah ha ha. People can't hide from you on Facebook any more (unless they block you).
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Make sure your privacy settings are on lock-down. The best way to test that they are is to use Facebook’s “View As” feature to see what a stranger can see when they look at your profile.
Make sure your privacy settings are on lock-down. The best way to test that they are is to use Facebook’s “View As” feature to see what a stranger can see when they look at your profile.
Facebook hat die Tracking-App Moves gekauft. Damit könnte Facebook seine User komplett überwachen und Bewegungsdaten für Werbung vermarkten.
Facebook hat die Tracking-App Moves gekauft. Das gab der App-Entwickler auf seiner Website bekannt. Der Fitness-Tracker zeichnet ununterbrochen Ihre Aktivitäten auf, wenn Sie die App auf Ihrem iPhone oder Android-Smartphone installiert haben. Damit weiß Moves - und künftig auch Facebook - wo Sie sich wie lange aufgehalten haben.
Datenkrake Facebook: Vermarktung von Bewegungsdaten Warum Facebook auf diese Daten scharf ist, ist klar:
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Zu wissen, wer wann wo ist, lässt sich teuer vermarkten, zum Beispiel für Werbeanzeigen mit lokalem Bezug. In der Innenstadt mal kurz Facebook checken und dabei Werbung für den Schuhladen auf dem Weg zu bekommen – das könnte eine Zukunftsperspektive sein.
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Gust MEES's insight:
Damit weiß Moves - und künftig auch Facebook - wo Sie sich wie lange aufgehalten haben.
Datenkrake Facebook: Vermarktung von Bewegungsdaten Warum Facebook auf diese Daten scharf ist, ist klar:
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Zu wissen, wer wann wo ist, lässt sich teuer vermarkten, zum Beispiel für Werbeanzeigen mit lokalem Bezug. In der Innenstadt mal kurz Facebook checken und dabei Werbung für den Schuhladen auf dem Weg zu bekommen – das könnte eine Zukunftsperspektive sein.
Facebook has always been creepy. But now it's allowing you to be creepy, too!
The site started rolling out an "optional" new mobile feature Thursday called Nearby Friends, which alerts you when your friends are nearby (and vice versa.) B...
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The site started rolling out an "optional" new mobile feature Thursday called Nearby Friends, which alerts you when your friends are nearby
Facebook plans to bring Internet to the third-world via drones, satellites, lasers, and more. Today Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook's Connectivity Lab will..
Die umstrittene Gesichtserkennung wird bei Facebook stetig weiterentwickelt. Forscher des Konzerns wollen nun mit der Technik "Deepface" eine Erkennungsrate erreichen, die nahe der des Menschen liegt.
In 2012 Twitter launched a new expanded tweet experience when they introduced Twitter Cards. These cards allow approved publishers to display more information than just the 140 characters—headlines, article summaries, images and much more can appear in a single tweet when an expansion link is clicked. Twitter has now rolled [...]
A class-action suit claims that the social networking site monitors and uses your messages for advertising purposes.
The class-action lawsuit, submitted by Arkansas lawyer Matt Campbell and Michael Hurley from Oregon on Monday at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, says that the social networking giant monitors users' private messages in order to compile and mine data which can be used to profile web activity.
===> This data can then allegedly be used for profit through sales to marketers and advertisers -- who then can target ads based on the user's online behavior. <===
Don't want the entire Facebook-using and -abusing population to see your friends list? You could set your friend list to private, but fat lot of good that will do, given a researcher's discovery th...
Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
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Irene Abezgauz, a vice president of product management at the security software company Quotium, has discovered a way for any casual visitor, stranger, stalker or troll to see friend lists that their users have set to be private, and that includes any friends who've also set their lists to be private.
Using the power of Social Media, I FREAKED PEOPLE OUT by making them think I knew personal information about them! Join the Vale Nation► http://bit.ly/JoinVa...
IBM développe actuellement un outil qui lui permet d'établir un profil psychologique des utilisateurs de Twitter, en sondant les profondeurs de l'âme à travers les messages de 140 caractères publiés par les internautes.
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L'nternaute transparent et produit pour les commerciaux et autres :(((
Nutzer erhalten bis Ende 2013 als Einstiegsangebot 10 GByte Speicherplatz kostenlos. Zahlende Kunden können bei Younited Pakete für 200 oder 500 GByte erwerben. Zudem hat F-Secure ehrgeizige Pläne, um das Angebot zu erweitern.
F-Secure hat mit Younited einen eigenen Cloud-Speicherdienst ins Leben gerufen. Mit ihm will das finnische Sicherheitsunternehmen Angeboten von Google, Microsoft und anderen US-Firmen Konkurrenz machen – und stellt daher den Betrieb in Finnland durch ein finnisches Unternehmen in den Vordergrund.
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F-Secure hat mit Younited einen eigenen Cloud-Speicherdienst ins Leben gerufen. Mit ihm will das finnische Sicherheitsunternehmen Angeboten von Google, Microsoft und anderen US-Firmen Konkurrenz machen – und stellt daher den Betrieb in Finnland durch ein finnisches Unternehmen in den Vordergrund.
F-Secure hat mit Younited einen eigenen Cloud-Speicherdienst ins Leben gerufen. Mit ihm will das finnische Sicherheitsunternehmen Angeboten von Google, Microsoft und anderen US-Firmen Konkurrenz machen – und stellt daher den Betrieb in Finnland durch ein finnisches Unternehmen in den Vordergrund.
Bislang konnten Facebook-Mitglieder festlegen, dass ihr Profil nicht angezeigt wird, wenn jemand ihren Namen in die Suchbox eingibt. Künftig geht das nicht mehr.
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Wer einschränken wolle, welche Informationen andere auf Facebook sehen können, solle das bei jedem Eintrag einzeln machen, rät Richter. Das sei "der beste Weg, zu kontrollieren, was Menschen über euch auf Facebook finden können".
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Whether or not Twitter and the scientists who have access to the company's data follow such guideposts, one thing is clear—the trend of mining social media data for various purposes won’t be tapering off anytime soon.