17 January 2012 ~ Comments Off

Facebook’s Growing Spam Problem

In the last few days I’ve noticed a regular spam problem from Facebook. My notifications bar shows links from people I don’t know and am not friends with. They are inviting me to like a spam page – in this case “iPhone 5 testing” which leads to a multitude of pop-up windows and eventually pulls [...]

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25 March 2011 ~ Comments Off

Facebook Like and Dislike Rubber Stamps

Just spotted these Facebook Like and Dislike rubber stamps over on Amazon. The stampers cost about $15 shipped and are self-inking and there are a set of two which indicate your agreement or disagreement with whatever you’re rubber stamping. Not a bad way to integrate social media into your office. Facebook Like /Dislike

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04 December 2010 ~ Comments Off

Sheriff Killer’s Prison Fed Facebook Page Removed

Apparently a prisoner in Oklahoma serving time for killing a sheriff was able to smuggle in a BlackBerry and make postings to a Facebook page. According to the new Facebook disabled the page because it violates policy. Reportedly the last posting from the account? “Chillin out.” Amplify’d from abcnews.go.com Facebook has deactivated the page of [...]

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30 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

News Corp Might Be Looking To Un-Friend MySpace

I suspect that MySpace has been available for any interested buyers for a while. The bigger question is why did it take this long for News Corp to figure out they vastly overpaid by about $580 million in July 2005. Didn’t anyone look at the awful graphics on that site and how little uniformity there [...]

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15 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Facebook Email Invitation Requests Here

As you may have already heard Facebook announced today that they’re re-inventing messaging. They stopped short of calling their revised messaging an “email killer” – however many are predicting that’s exactly what it ultimately could become. The new email sounds a lot like Google’s Gmail – right down to the ability to separate out the [...]

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