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Facebook Says User Data Sold to Broker – WSJ.com

October 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice.

The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers’ blog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that The Wall Street Journal reported in October.

Some “apps,” the small programs that let users play games or share information with each other on the social-networking site, were sending users’ Facebook ID numbers to third-party marketing or data firms, in violation of Facebook’s privacy policies. An ID can be used to look up a user’s name and other publicly available information on the social network and link it to their use of the app. Such information can be used by companies that build profiles of Internet users by tracking their online activities.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31

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Why Create Lightweight Business Applications Using Microsoft LightSwitch?

October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Microsoft’s VSLive2010 developer’s event is all about development in the Visual Studio environment, and one of the big announcements this year was the launch date for Visual Studio LightSwitch. LightSwitch is a Rapid Development environment that will allow technical and somewhat-technical people the ability to create light weight Line of Business applications. While many developers don’t think LightSwitch will be useful for creating apps, we think it can be very beneficial to use in the right circumstances. Here are some reasons why.

Right-Sized vs Enterprise Ready

In recent years there has been a growing philosophy that everything needs to be enterprise ready. The prevailing thought is all solutions need to be scalable, flexible, anything-able. While that is true for anything that really does need to be enterprise ready, there are situations where enterprise ready is TOO much.

Imagine you are a small start up. You are not focused on enterprise ready. You are focused on getting through your first year. Alternately, you might be an established organization that is considering getting into a new line of business. Focusing on getting something up and running to let your employees share information in a cost effective way would ensure you are not risking valuable resources (i.e., capital). In today’s economy capital budgets are limited, and in some companies non-existent.

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Twitter is the Next Customer Service Hotline

October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Attensity (news, site), best known for their social media monitoring tools, recently announced a partnership with Twitter. Attensity will now be able to listen, analyze and act with better access to the complete stream of one of the fastest growing channels of customer feedback and conversation in social media.

Capturing the Twitter Firehose

With the partnership, Attensity customers will have real-time access to Twitter’s “Firehose”, or complete data stream, of over 90 million Tweets each day.

Such advanced access means that businesses can keep a watchful eye on the conversations, posts and comments happening on the social web, all of which, if missed, could adversely impact their brand and customers. With more of the enterprise focused on monitoring customer conversations, Attensity is helping businesses not only monitor but engage with customers, ultimately improving their satisfaction rate and ensuring customers remain loyal to that business.

Converting Conversation

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Revealed: Chamber of Commerce funding effort to weaken anti-bribery law | Raw Story

October 29, 2010 By 1 Comment

The US Chamber of Commerce, which has injected massive sums into 2010 election races, is allegedly behind an massive push to weaken anti-bribery laws.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, first enacted in 1977, prohibits companies from paying bribes to foreign officials in order to retain or obtain business. Both US companies and foreign companies operating in the United States are bound by the law.

Earlier this month, the liberal blog ThinkProgress (an arm of the liberal thinktank Center for American Progress) broke the news that the Chamber’s political action fund was being underwritten by myriad high-profile multinational firms, including Paris-based insurer AXA, the Swiss bank Credit Suisse, London-based bank HSBC, and pharmaceutical firms Novartis and Sanofi-Aventis.

The list also included nine companies located in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Bahrain, including Gulf Petrochemical Industries, which is owned partly by the Bahrain, Saudi and Kuwaiti governments, and Gulf Air, the national air carrier of Bahrain owned by the government of Bahrain.

via Revealed: Chamber of Commerce funding effort to weaken anti-bribery law | Raw Story.

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Where “Entire Computer and Component Manufacturer’s Industry” was on Notice of Potential for Litigation, Defendant’s Failure to Preserve Warrants Sanctions : Electronic Discovery Law

October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Phillip M. Adams & Assoc., LLC v. Windbond Elecs. Corp., 2010 WL 3767318 (D. Utah Sept. 16, 2010)

In this ongoing multi-defendant patent litigation, the court has previously addressed allegations of spoliation.  In March 2009, the court found sanctions were warranted for defendant ASUS Computer International’s violation of its duty to preserve which arose in the “1999-2000 environment” of litigation surrounding the technology to resolve a defect in a particular floppy disk controller (“FDC”).  In this case, the court reaffirmed its earlier holding regarding the trigger for defendants’ duty to preserve, namely that “[i]n late 1999 the entire computer and component manufacturer’s industry was put on notice of a potential for litigation regarding defective floppy disk components (“FDCs”) by the well publicized settlement in a large class action lawsuit against Toshiba.”  Accordingly, for defendant MSI’s failure to uphold its duty to preserve, the court found sanctions were warranted.

Plaintiff sought sanctions for defendant MSI’s spoliation of documents.  Specifically, MSI was unable to produce certain information, including “a utility used at least once to test for FDC problems”, and admitted that when it switched its email server in 2003, “it simply deleted the emails stored on the previous server.”  The Magistrate Judge denied plaintiff’s motion and, upon plaintiff’s objection, the matter went before the District Court Judge.

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Law conference will address relationship of eDiscovery and social media

October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Corporate Counsel magazine’s upcoming Social Media: Risks and Rewards conference will touch on the latest threats and increasing legal perils associated with the rapid growth and evolution of social media, including how it pertains to eDiscovery.

Among this year’s topics, eDiscovery is identified as an emerging issue when it comes to social media. Specifically, “the lawyer’s new nightmare: eDiscovery and social media” will be a featured discussion section.

“Social media has blurred the lines completely between work and private life. Among other things, it’s made legal departments totally re-evaluate what is important in terms of discovery in the employment sphere,” said Corporate Counsel Editor-in-Chief Anthony Paonita.

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Law conference will address relationship of eDiscovery and social media

October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Corporate Counsel magazine’s upcoming Social Media: Risks and Rewards conference will touch on the latest threats and increasing legal perils associated with the rapid growth and evolution of social media, including how it pertains to eDiscovery.

Among this year’s topics, eDiscovery is identified as an emerging issue when it comes to social media. Specifically, “the lawyer’s new nightmare: eDiscovery and social media” will be a featured discussion section.

“Social media has blurred the lines completely between work and private life. Among other things, it’s made legal departments totally re-evaluate what is important in terms of discovery in the employment sphere,” said Corporate Counsel Editor-in-Chief Anthony Paonita.

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Google Adds Local Business Search Feature – WSJ.com

October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

In a bid to get more advertising dollars from businesses located near people using its search engine, Google Inc. is revamping how it displays information about local enterprises.

Google’s Place Search, which is expected to roll out globally by Thursday, gives Google users more information about local businesses, such as restaurants and dry cleaners, directly on the first results page, including a photo, review ratings and a snippet of a review from sites such as CitySearch.com or Yelp.com, as well as links to those review sites.

Laurel Tate, co-owner of Two Sole Sisters LLC, a small shoe and accessories shop in Boulder, Colo., says the new format could help small businesses like hers.

via Google Adds Local Business Search Feature – WSJ.com.

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Google Adds Local Business Search Feature – WSJ.com

October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

In a bid to get more advertising dollars from businesses located near people using its search engine, Google Inc. is revamping how it displays information about local enterprises.

Google’s Place Search, which is expected to roll out globally by Thursday, gives Google users more information about local businesses, such as restaurants and dry cleaners, directly on the first results page, including a photo, review ratings and a snippet of a review from sites such as CitySearch.com or Yelp.com, as well as links to those review sites.

Laurel Tate, co-owner of Two Sole Sisters LLC, a small shoe and accessories shop in Boulder, Colo., says the new format could help small businesses like hers.

via Google Adds Local Business Search Feature – WSJ.com.

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