Path apologizes for mistake, erases info gathered from users
Path CEO Dave Morin has issued a public apology over its app’s privacy gaffe. The company has worked on a fix, and also declared that they have deleted all the data they acquired without authorization.
Moving to pacify Path’s outraged users, company CEO Dave Morin quickly issued an apology in a blog post last Wednesday.
“We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts,” Morin stated in the post titled “We are sorry.”
And just as important, Morin further announced that they have deleted all the data that their app gathered from its users’ contact list, which included full names and e-mail addresses.
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New Facebook App Bday Gift Finder Revealed
Do you find it hard to look for a birthday present? Let this new Facebook app help you.
The company Bday recently unveiled a Facebook app called Bday Gift Finder which scans your friend’s profiles for hints for gift suggestions. Bday was funded $2 million dollar for this project.
The concept behind the Bday Gift Finder is simple. After you hooked up the app to your profile, it simply examines the pages liked by your friend. You can click on a friend’s profile to check the retailers where you can likely buy the gist. You can also directly buy the presents from Bday Gift Finder but it comes in the form of gift cards.
The long term goal of Bday is to partner with retailers. Evetually, the site will take percentage in every transaction made through Facebook. For now, the app is just driving the users to the retailers to urge them to shop for presents.
View Article Source »British Tourists Deported For ‘Destroy America’ Twitter Joke
Two British tourists barred from entering U.S. over a twitter joke to 'destroy America'.
Two tourists from the U.K. were detained and barred from entering the U.S. over a twitter joke. Leigh Van Bryan, a 20-something Irish national currently residing in Coventry, U.K. was placed on a “One Day Lookout” list by the Department of Homeland Security for posting a suggestive message to ‘destroy America’ and ‘diggin’ up Marilyn Monroe’.
Bryan and his friend Emily Bunting flew to Los Angeles for vacation but were welcomed by Homeland Security Officials. Both were questioned and detained for 12 hours before they were deported back to the U.K.
Read the rest of the article »YouTube Gets 4 Billion Views a Day
Thanks to smartphones and televisions, YouTube viewership increased by 25%.
Google released an official confirmation that Google has been receiving 4 billion video views a day. Reuters released additional news on Monday and mentioned that there was 25% increase in the video-hosting site’s viewership.
Google added that 60 hours of new video content is uploaded every minute. Last May, the statistics showed that only 48 hours of video were added per minute.
The increase in the viewer’s population brought about $5 billion worth of revenue from advertisements.
View Article Source »Google+ Now Allows Use of Nicknames
Google+ announces a new policy that allows the use of nicknames, maiden names or alternate names.
Google Vice President of Products Bradley Horowitz has announced a new policy that allows the use of nicknames or alternate names.
This new policy enables support for alternate names by allowing users to add additional names such as nicknames, maiden names or names in another script. This name will appear on the user’s Google+ profile page and in the hovercard alongside the common name.
Horowitz posted the announcement on his Google+ page, stating that the new policy hopes to ‘address and remedy’ the majority of name related appeals that Google+ has been receiving. It also aims to simplify the use of pseudonyms that will benefit individuals with established identities.
View Article Source »The White House Joins Google+, To Host ‘Hangouts’
The White House joins Google+, will host regular 'Hangouts'.
The White House has followed the President’s lead and launched its own Google+ page. The official White House Google+ page which was announced on Friday, is latest of the current Administration’s efforts to reach out via social media.
“These are just some of the ways that we aim to engage with Americans on the issues that matter the most — and now, we’re pleased to add Google+ to this list.” The White House said on their official blog.
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Facebook launches Timeline Apps platform which allows sharing of contents from third-party sites.
Facebook has officially launched its new Timeline Apps platform, a new platform which allows the integration of third-party Open Graph apps into the new Timeline.
The new Timeline Apps platform, which was first announced at last year’s f8 conference, allows news, entertainment and other services to ‘facilitate information sharing’ and lets users enhance their Timeline by integrating the apps into the social network.
A variety of new Timeline apps are now available and can be added into the timeline. Visit the Facebook blog for more info.
View Article Source »Wikipedia To Shutdown in Protest of SOPA
Wikipedia announces plans for a 24-hour shutdown on Wednesday in protest of SOPA and PIPA.
Wikipedia’s English language site will go offline for 24-hours in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two proposed legislations that may potentially harm ‘the free and open Internet’.
The protest which is scheduled on Wednesday was announced by Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales through a series of tweets.
Wikipedia, the most-widely used online encyclopedia, currently ranks as the sixth most popular website according to Alexa, and is estimated to have an average of 25 million visitors daily.
View Article Source »US First Lady Michelle Obama Joins Twitter
In support of her husband’s reelection campaign, Michelle Obama learns to express herself in 140 characters.
The First Lady’s first tweet stated the obvious:
“We’re excited today to launch @michelleobama as a new way for you to connect with First Lady Michelle Obama and the President’s campaign.”
Even though the account is managed by the Obama;s campaign staff, it will still feature personal tweets from the First Lady herself. Her special messages will be signed with “-mo,” which is the counterpart signature used by President Obama, “-bo.”
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Facebook launches 'Listen With Friends', a new feature that enables you to 'listen to music with your friends'.
Facebook introduces ‘Listen With Friends’, a new feature that enables users to share music in real-time with their Facebook friends.
The new feature which works a lot like the popular social media website Turntable.fm, adds a ‘Listen With’ button on the chat sidebar that enables you to look through your online friends list and listen along when someone’s playing music. It also allows you discuss the music being played in the chat sidebar.
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