Stories about: TMI

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    Twitter: Some UberSocial direct messages not private 01/04/2011 10:00:00

    Twitter is warning users of the popular UberSocial Twitter-messaging software that direct messages they send may not be private.
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    4 reasons why Facebook and vanity don't mix 15/03/2011 10:51:00

    My colleague, Bill Brenner, has a t-shirt he likes to wear that basically says social networking feeds the darker sides of human nature. The shirt is a parody of a Venn Diagram and shows the relationship between sites like Facebook and Twitter to what some might called undesirable character traits, such as ADHD, stalking and narcissism.
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    Google Apps suite gets 10 times bigger 19/11/2010 04:38:00

    If you've been using Google Apps for work and other Google services for play, then you know the annoyance of juggling two accounts within one browser. That hassle ended Thursday as Mountain View brought more than 60 services into the Google Apps fold.
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    Open letter to Facebook on privacy 04/05/2010 02:44:00

    Facebook appears to be working diligently at establishing itself as the site that people love to hate. Don't get me wrong, passionate views are a mark of success--just look at Microsoft, Apple, and Google. Still, the trick is to foster that passion (and generate revenue) without inviting undue regulatory scrutiny or legal backlash.
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    Sony Bravia KDL46WE5 LCD TV 08/07/2009 17:00:00

    The Sony Bravia KDL46WE5 LCD TV is the Japanese electronic giant’s latest attempt at an energy-efficient television. But while it has green credentials, it’s not nearly as pretty as other Sony televisions.
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    The Social Networking Compendium - Part 1 (Twitter) 28/04/2009 17:03:00

    Unstoppable is one way to describe the exponential growth of social networking websites. From tinsel town Twitterers like Ashton Kutcher, Britney Spears and William Shatner, to political heavies like Barrack Obama and Kevin 24/7 there is a tsunami of people using Web 2.0 technologies.
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    The Polite Way to Take a Break, Ignore, Unfollow on Twitter 22/04/2009 02:41:00

    The more people you follow on Twitter, the more you realize the truth: Sometimes, you want a short break from certain people. Sometimes, you even need to break up. Topping the list of annoyances, there's the too much information (TMI) tweets, followed closely by the criminally self-promotional and the disgustingly self-indulgent. These tweets can trickle into your Twitter stream with great regularity, rendering the service at times useless.
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    Using social networking safely: tips from security pros 02/05/2008 10:00:00

    Howard Schmidt was reluctant to hop on the social networking bandwagon - a byproduct, he says, of the paranoia he internalises as a security professional. Eventually, though, Schmidt - the one-time cybersecurity adviser to President Bush and itinerant CISO turned consultant - decided the positives outweighed the negatives. He joined not just one social network but three: Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.
 
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