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Disgracebook: Facebook Gets It Dead Wrong
Apparently your Facebook Timeline doesn’t end when your time on earth does. Saturday’s Boston Herald front page: From the Herald report: Two of [Michael Marshalsea’s] daughters told the Herald they were shocked and dismayed that a ghoulish imposter took over their … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Tim Thomas Edition)
Tim Thomas, who sounds like the NHL’s first mobbed-up goaltender (“I going to use my right to remain silent”), gets very different treatment in the Boston dailies today. Boston Globe columnist Kevin Paul Dupont cuffs Thomas around on the sports … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Facebook, Howie Carr, Kevin Paul Dupont, Tim Thomas
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The Nym Wars, Appendix B
As the Sneak ADtackniks have previously noted, the nym wars are all about retaining anonymity online (in the form of pseudonyms) versus having some sort of digital passport like a Facebook sign-in. Now comes a new front in the Battle Nym of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle Nym of the Republic, Bits, Facebook, Google, Google Plus, New York Times, nym wars, Potemkin Internet, Sneak ADtack, Twitter
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The Nym Wars, Appendix A
The hardworking staff (and its wholly owned subsidiaries) has been on the nym wars – the battle over anonymity on the web – like Brown on Williamson (see Sneak ADtack! coverage here and here). New grist for the mill (via the Center … Continue reading
GOP Social Studies
It’s not that retail politics is for losers in the Republican presidential primary race, but the candidates stumping hardest in Iowa and New Hampshire – Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry – are generally polling lowest. (Exception that … Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You’re An Idiot
Facebook founder/weasel Mark Zuckerberg is once again insulting our intelligence by trying to mask his intelligence-gathering about us. From Friday’s New York Times: Your Life on Facebook, in Total Recall Remember those karaoke videos from three years ago that somehow … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, Faceshnooks, Mark Zuckerberg, New York Times, Timeline
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Yankees’ Zuck Edition)
Social network behemoth Facebook is opening its first East Coast office in New York. Not Boston. Which drew radically different coverage in the local dailies. From the Boston Globe’s Business Daily Briefing: NEW YORK – Facebook will open an engineering … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, East Coast office, Evil Empire, Facebook, Joe Sciacca, Mark Zuckerberg, Yankees' Zuck
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World Without Facebook
Via techPresident: Artist Ian Wojtowicz has created the UnFacebook World Map, a composite of the NASA Earth at Night map and Facebook’s Friendship Map (Click to enlarge.) Those were the days, eh?
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Tagged Earth at Night, Facebook, Friendship Map, NASA, TechPresident
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Private Oy: Facebook And The Super Snoopers (Part One)
An online privacy trifecta from the hardworking staff at Sneak ADtack!: • USA Today report (with helpful graphic): Facebook tracking is under scrutiny In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users’ … Continue reading
Facebook Is Totally Stalking Me
Memo to Mark Zuckerberg: Get out of my Facebook! Enough with the emails saying, “Here’s some activity you may have missed on Facebook.” No, I haven’t missed it – I’ve IGNORED it. There’s a difference. Unfortunately, Facebook marks are just … Continue reading
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