Is creating an automated bot to spew out useless and misleading Twitter messages as annoying - and as legally punishable - as sending out massive spam e-mails? Twitter seems to think so, and has filed a lawsuit against several companies that create tools for automated tweets, saying they damage the site's reputation and are hurting its business. The companies in question do nothing but litter Twitter with fake profiles and unwanted messages.
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Zynga’s Draw Something makes mobile gaming history
The mobile social Pictionary-style smash hit has become the fastest-growing original mobile game of all time. In a span of only 50 days, the game, originally created by OMGPOP and then acquired by much larger social gaming company Zynga, has reached more than 50 million downloads. It recently leapfrogged ahead of Angry Birds Space to be the #1 paid app in Apple's App Store.
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Facebook log-in requirement target of lawsuit filed by teacher’s aide
The rapidly growing and increasingly disturbing trend of employers asking prospective or even current employees to hand over their Facebook log-in credentials may have reached its apex - it's now the center of a lawsuit. A teacher's aide at an elementary school in Michigan has fought back against the school's requirement that she let administrators access every nook and cranny of her Facebook account.
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Virgin announces Virgin Volcanic journey to center of Earth
Sir Richard Branson has explored the skies in a hot air balloon, delved into the deep sea, and even gone into space, but now his next project is to go to an entirely new desintation - the center of the Earth. Introducing Virgin Volcanic, a corkscrew-shaped vessel that will make its trips via five of the most active volcanoes in the world. It is perhaps Branson's most ambitious idea to date.
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Facebook shooting for May IPO
Facebook may be ready to hold its initial public offering in May, according to a source familiar with the matter. The company recently asked firms to stop the trading of its privately held shares in the secondary market, a sign that it's trying to eliminate any valuation churns that might complicate its IPO.
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Pinterest boasts President Obama as member
Barack Obama may have a busy schedule, but apparently he still has time to pin things. The president has just joined one of the fastest growing new social platforms, Pinterest. "Organizers, infographics, murals, and cake — now pinning all of the above for #Obama2012 on Pinterest," the president's official Twitter account posted this week. Will the president's pinning fortitude help his run for reelection?
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Senators investigate Facebook password privacy allegations
Recent reports on the growing trend of employers demanding access to job applicants' social networks have sparked the interest of government regulators. Two US senators, Richard Blumenthal and Charles E. Schumer, are calling on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Justice for a federal investigation on this personal privacy issue.
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Netflix Facebook app illegal in the US
When Facebook first announced its Open Graph developer tool that allows users to share activities through Facebook apps, dozens of major brands and services were on board for the launch, including Netflix. However, since then Netflix has released its app to almost every country except the US. And the reason for this exclusion appears to be that an ambiguous privacy law created in the late 1980s could deem the app illegal here in the states.
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Microsoft backs OpenStreetMap to compete with Google Maps
Google Maps may be the dominant player in the mapping business still, but there's a rising star in an open-source competitor called OpenStreetMap that's been heavily backed by Microsoft. Due to the high fees of using Google Maps, some major services, including FourSquare and Apple's iPhoto app, have already defected to using OpenStreetMap instead.
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Facebook releases Zuckerberg’s emails to dismiss Ceglia lawsuit
Facebook may finally be nearing the end of a pestering lawsuit lodged against it by Paul Ceglia, a New York man who claims to be owed a 50 percent stake in the social network. For the first time, Facebook has released the email exchanges in 2004 between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Ceglia, which were retrieved from the Harvard University server. These emails reveal a very different picture from the one Ceglia has tried to paint when he produced apparently fraudulent copies of alleged emails between him and Zuckerberg.
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Dropbox Facebook integration goes live
It is now possible for users who have both a Facebook account and a Dropbox account to send files and folders to one another in a seamlessly integrated social capacity. In other words, users can choose to share their Dropbox files with friends and colleagues through a newly implemented Facebook integration platform. This comes after the cloud-based company hired former Facebook executives.
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Tweetbot for iPad Retina Quality Review
The most fabulous Twitter application for Apple‘s iPad has been upgraded again, this time for the 2012 iPad with its high definition Retina-quality display. This app allows Twitter users to see their timeline on the right, a menu of lists on the left, and settings all around. This app not only allows you to work with multiple Twitter accounts from one console, it shows all of the Tweet-related content posted by your followed associates in as high definition quality as you’ve ever seen them in the mobile realm.
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