"Here’s the thing: For most of us, cyborg ends at the human-machine hybrid. The point of the cyborg is to be a cyborg; it’s an end unto itself. But for Clynes, the interface between the organism and the technology was just a means, a way of enlarging the human experience. That knotty first definition? It ran under this section headline: “Cyborgs — Frees Man to Explore.” The cyborg was not less human, but more."
Would You Give Job Interviewers Your Facebook Password?
Say you’re at a job interview. You’re chatting with an HR rep, and all’s going well when your interviewer asks you for … your Facebook password.
Assuming you’ve misheard, you ask, “My Facebook username?”
No no, your interviewer replies, breezily. Your password. Your Facebook password.
Yes. Apparently, for the 95 percent of employers who use social media sites to glean information about job candidates, the intelligence available for public perusal is no longer enough. Prospective employers now want to see inside your profiles. They want to see into your very soul. […]
It’s striking how deep the divide can be between our conceptions of online privacy: To me, an interviewer asking for my password — Facebook or any other — would be a fairly shocking imposition. To an interviewer, though, it would be a question like any other. Common standards about what’s acceptable and what’s not when it comes to online privacy have yet to solidify in the social environment that Facebook and other networks provide. Which leads to confusions … and to violations.
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Google comScore: Google’s social networking lags behind FaceBook, MySpace
A new study from comScore provides some insight into what many social media users already believe: Almost no one is on Google+. And those who do visit the social network don’t hang around very long.
(Read more at The Slate)
Hey let me turn on my android tablet and read more about this…
At a Congressional hearing this morning that veered into contentious arguments and cringe-worthy moments, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spilled the beans on their social media monitoring project.
DHS Chief Privacy Office Mary Ellen Callahan and Director of Operations Coordination and Planning Richard Chavez appeared to be deliberately stonewalling Congress on the depth, ubiquity, goals, and technical capabilities of the agency’s social media surveillance. At other times, they appeared to be themselves unsure about their own project’s ultimate goals and uses. But one thing is for sure: If you’re the first person to tweet about a news story, or if you’re a community activist who makes public Facebook posts—DHS will have your personal information.
Department Of Homeland Security Tells Congress Why It’s Monitoring Facebook, Twitter, Blogs
They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of minority owners of Facebook are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they’ll do with with new millions (nearly half a billion dollars for Reid Hoffman?), here’s a look at what got them where they are today.
Tomorrow’s cover today: Facebook may be a good bet for investors now; but regulatory problems lie ahead.
This is gonna be fun.
Graphic: Breaking down Facebook’s initial public offering.
Mobile app adds an element of gaming to home energy metering
There are few aspects of life that can’t be enlivened by a little friendly competition, and home energy metering is no exception. Enter German GreenPocket’s namesake smartphone app, which “helps consumers share their carbon footprint in a competitive and entertaining way on Facebook”. READ MORE…
US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook
After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered “all Internet search engines” and “all social media websites”—explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to “de-index” the domain names and to remove them from any search results.
The case has been a remarkable one. Concerned about counterfeiting, Chanel has filed a joint suit in Nevada against nearly 700 domain names that appear to have nothing in common. When Chanel finds more names, it simply uses the same case and files new requests for more seizures. (A recent November 14 order went after an additional 228 sites; none had a chance to contest the request until after it was approved and the names had been seized.)
Via Hillary Hartley on G+, where she adds, “Why wait for SOPA?”
“This sounds like the kind of case that could make its way to the Supreme Court rather quickly,” thinks the nwk tumblr who doesn’t know much about how things get in front of the Supreme Court.
A Newspaper For The Twitter Age: The Size of a Sales Receipt, And Edited By You
When Webb gave Co.Design an exclusive preview of Little Printer last week (“You’re, like, the thirteenth person on earth to see this,” he said in Skype conversation from London), he was visibly giddy. “We’re sick of not telling everyone about this, so we’ve just decided to tell everyone,” he explained, grinning. Little Printer is exactly that: a palm-sized, cube-shaped, cloud-powered thermal printer with an adorable pair of feet and a cute face. And what does it print? A personalized mini-newspaper — with content curated from partners like The Guardian, social media like Foursquare and Facebook, as well as stuff created by BERG itself—and output on a receipt-like paper strip no longer than ten inches. “Each information source we think of as a personalised ‘publication’ that you subscribe to from a kind of ‘app store for paper’, collated into a delivery that arrives at a chosen time,” Webb tells Co.Design. You “feed” Little Printer by selecting content via a remote-control-esque smartphone app, and then get your mini-newspaper delivered “once or twice a day.” Think of it like Flipboard, but without the screen.
» via Co. Design
If we ignore the environmental issues for a second, I think printing personalized twitter style news on receipts have a market. Who really wants you to have more receipts? The tax authorities, of course! Receipts is not first and foremost a receipt for you as a customer, but a proof that a legal transaction have been taken place. And what would be better than to enforce that with positive feedback?
Occupywallstreet Twitter network mentions and reply edges highlighted with labels
These are the connections among the Twitter users who recently tweeted the word occupywallstreet when queried on November 15, 2011, scaled by numbers of followers (with outliers thresholded). Connections created when users reply, mention or follow one another. Relies and mentions edges are highlighted in blue, follows connections are grey. The data set starts on 11/15/2011 23:08 and ends on 11/15/2011 23:34 UTC, a total of 26 minutes of traffic.
Wouldn’t a link to a youtube video be easier?
“Thanks to augmented reality technology, a tiny version of Rihanna actually seems to emerge from the cap of a jar of Nivea Creme to sing her song “California King Bed.”
The app, which went live this week, is an attempt to “create engaging digital advertising experiences,” says a statement from the company. Nivea tried to create such as experience this summer with a “Co-Star with Rihanna” Facebook campaign that let users star in a short, alternative version of the music video for the song by editing themselves into the action.
For the AR component, all you have to do is buy a tin of Nivea Creme or print one out from Nivea’s website and hold either up to your computer’s webcam. Then, voila, Rihanna appears.”
READ more on Mashable
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Pick a site, any site, and “share” buttons are littered all over the place.
Mozilla/Firefox is asking why not bring that basic functionality up to the browser.
Via Webmonkey:
Mozilla wants to help stop the proliferation of “share this” badges currently cluttering the web. These days nearly every page you visit is plastered with dozens of icons offering to like, or tweet, or +1, or thumbs up, or otherwise tell your friends what you think of the page in question. The clutter can be distracting or even overwhelming and, if Mozilla has anything to say about it, unnecessary.
Firefox has a plan to clean up the clutter and move the sharing power into the browser itself. Mozilla Labs has announced a new project, Firefox Share, a Firefox add-on that makes it easy to share webpages on Twitter or Facebook right from the Firefox URL bar.
Firefox Share is currently an alpha quality release and may have some bugs, but if that doesn’t bother you head on over to the download page and install it (Firefox Share does not require a restart).
Once installed the new add-on adds a paper airplane icon to the URL bar; click that icon and a drop down panel allows you to post to Twitter or Facebook or e-mail a message to a friend.
Of course, there are already a number of plugins, add-ons and extensions for different browsers to accomplish this but offloading this functionality from site to browser as a native function is an interesting idea.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
Michael Arrington sums up Silicon Valley Diversity on “Black In America 4”
Weeks ahead of the premier of a CNN documentary focusing on diversity in the tech industry, the charged issue is already generating sparks. A heated debate broke out on Twitter Wednesday night after a preview screening of Black in America 4.
Blogger-turned-investor Michael Arrington ignited a controversy with his comments about the visibility of minority-led companies. In the documentary, which airs November 13, Arrington talked about his difficulties finding African-American entrepreneurs to launch their ventures at his TechCrunch Disrupt conference — and suggested he would accept almost any black entrepreneur, regardless of merit.
(Source: CNN)
