Author: Michele Neylon
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Twifficiency Shows How NOT To Use Twitter’s OAuth
Twitter, in common with other social networking sites and services, has an authentication system. In Twitter’s case it’s called OAuth and it allows you, as a user, to give applications and service access to your account. For an application or service to function correctly it might need to gather information from your Twitter stream. Maybe…
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FourSquare – Stalker’s Paradise?
Foursquare allows you to post and share your location. Depending on where you are and how adventurous the businesses are in the area, you might get the odd discount or special offer for doing so .. But there is a potential downside to oversharing your location with the world.. It’s not a new topic, but…
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Facebook the Movie?
It’s not enough that Facebook and its founder get splashed around in the mainstream media day in, day out .. now Hollywood wants us to watch a movie .. There’s a couple of versions of the trailer floating around. The first one (below) gives a few headlines and doesn’t show any real action: The second…
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Facebook Scores Badly
Seemingly Facebook didn’t fare too well in a recent “satisfaction” survey. Of course Facebook is a FREE service It’s easy for people to forget that
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Facebook Privacy (Parody)
Facebook’s stance on privacy has upset a lot of people .. this video parody is pretty good: