Can’t block Zuckerberg
Creating the most successful social networking site of all time has its perks – the ability to view any users’ photos or personal information. In the fracas over Facebook’s recent privacy woes, its has been reported by Tech Crunch that the only person users cannot block on Facebook is the creator. Like Myspace’s infamous ‘Tom,’ […]
Facecreeping by employers soon to be illegal in Germany
The New York Times has reported that German lawmakers are about to make it illegal for employers to research job candidates using social networking sites. The move would add Facebook screening to an increasing list of ‘no-goes’ when it comes to unauthorized pre-employee screening. The move has been celebrated by Internet watch-dog sites, though the […]
Will throttling affect online publishing?
This is something to keep an eye on: throttling. As internet file sharing continues to erode publishing and copyright revenue, will throttling, or pay-for-speed internet presence, be the ‘net tax’ that solves the web publishing quagmire? [linebreak] Few people have been talking about throttling in this sense, but I suspect that sooner or later, paying […]
Workers banned from using net
They knew it was bad, but not this bad. The BBC reported this week that the country Jordon has blocked access to over fifty websites on computers in government offices. The move came after government investigations showed that employee’s were spending more than three hours per day searching the web. Read the story here, and […]
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