Tag: Social network service
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Facebook Goes Down – Millions Scream
Last night Facebook suffered an outage. It wasn’t a particularly long outage, but due to the site’s sheer size the impact of the outage was felt globally. Millions of people were forced to talk to their spouses, girlfriends, co-workers and neighbours face to face (in real life). Oh no!
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The Social Network On Release In Ireland – What Do People Think Of It?
Last weekend The Social Network went on general release in the UK and Ireland. It’s currently playing in most of the cinema chains across Ireland and seems to have been well received. Have you seen it? If you have, what did you think of it? Seemingly Mark Zuckerberg isn’t overly impressed with it, but then…
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German Lawmakers Seek To Limit Usage of Social Media Info By Employers
Image via CrunchBase Germany seems to take privacy pretty seriously. According to reports this week Germany is seeking to enact legislation that would restrict the usage of information about prospective employees garnered from social media sites by employers. The legislators are drawing a line between “pure” social networking site and the more professional ones. “The…