Online social networks leak personal information to tracking sites…
WORCESTER, Mass. — The leakage puts social network users at risk of having their identity linked with their browsing behavior; the study is the first to describe a mechanism that tracking sites could use to directly link browsing habits to specific individuals More than a half billion people use online social networks, posting vast amounts of
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Of Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter
CR80 News by Andy Williams, If you aren’t using Facebook, YouTube, MySpace or some of the other so-called social networking sites, you may be missing out on a prime opportunity to market your campus card or other
Facebook Cedes Content to Twitter for Facebook Pages, Not Profiles!
eWeek — Facebook allows administrators of Facebook Pages to post Facebook photos, events, links and status updates to Twitter. However, this sharing feature won’t work for individual users who want to take Facebook content to Twitter. So, users can still bring tweets into Facebook, but can’t
Why employers didn’t hire you after seeing your Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn profile!
Dave Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald More employers have caught on to the fact they can find interesting information about a job candidate online, and that can be bad news for some people looking for work these days. CareerBuilder recently surveyed employers about whether they took a look at social
Press Release: Social Networks Act As A Powerful Marketing Stimulus
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 23, 2009 — Marketing campaigns that incorporate a brand focused social network are more effective due to the increasing popularity of social media according to Reality Digital, the leading provider of social networking application software for brands and businesses. Reality
How smart is your social media strategy?
Citizen-Times– Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and blogs are open forums for comments about anything. Millions of people are logging on every day to share personal experiences. Are they talking about your company or products? If you don’t know, then you are missing opportunities to encourage
Parents, teens are disconnected on social networking habits
Tennessean — Juliet Douglas said she was stunned recently when hearing about a statistic in a recent poll illustrating that kids increasingly connect with friends, classmates and people with similar interests through social networking sites — and that parents are out of the loop. “Who’s
Implement a ‘Social Media Marketing’ plan with these 4 easy steps
Examiner — Because the concept of “social media” is still fairly new in the business realm, many companies have yet to implement guidelines or a structured plan of action of how to use social media tools for their advantage. What is happening instead, are companies rushing into creating
Facebook and social networking not for everybody!
By Michelle Magnan, Canwest News Service — Renee Amber’s experience using Facebook was short, but not sweet. A self-described “private person,” the 30-year-old Calgarian had put off joining the social networking site for years. She didn’t like the idea of disclosing her
Hackers Put ‘Social Networks’ Such as Twitter in Crosshairs!
PCWorld, Business Center — Web sites such as Twitter are becoming increasingly favored by hackers as places to plant malicious software in order to infect computers, according to a new study covering Web application security vulnerabilities. Social-networking sites were the most commonly targeted
