Facebook zegt User Data Verkocht aan Broker – WSJ.com

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 developersblog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that The Wall Street Journal reported in October.

Sommige “apps,” the small programs that let users play games or share information with each other on the social-networking site, were sending usersFacebook 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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Wekelijkse Twitter Updates voor 2010-10-31

Waarom maken Lichtgewicht Business Applications Microsoft LightSwitch?

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, vermogen). 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

Attensity (nieuws, 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’sFirehose”, 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: Kamer van Koophandel financiering poging om anti-omkoping wet te verzwakken | Raw Story

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.

De 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.

Eerder deze maand, 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.

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Waar “Hele computer-en Component van de fabrikant Industrie” was op Aankondiging van potentieel voor Litigation, Verweerder er niet in slaagt Warrants Sancties behouden : Electronic Discovery wet

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

In deze voortdurende multi-verdachte octrooigeschillen, Het Hof heeft eerder aangepakt beschuldigingen van plundering. In maart 2009, de rechter vond sancties gerechtvaardigd waren voor overtreding verweerder ASUS Computer International van haar plicht om te bewaren die zijn ontstaan ​​in de "1999-2000 omgeving 'van een geschil rond de technologie om een ​​defect in een specifiek floppy disk controller op te lossen ("FDC").In dit geval, de rechtbank bevestigde zijn eerdere houden ten aanzien van de trigger voor verdachten 'plicht om te bewaren, namelijk dat "[in]n late 1999 de hele computer en de fabrikant van de component-industrie werd gelegd op kennis van een potentieel voor geschillen met betrekking tot defecte floppy disk componenten ("FDC's") door de goed bekend nederzetting in een grote class action-rechtszaak tegen Toshiba. "Daarom, voor de verwerende partij MSI er niet in slaagt haar plicht te handhaven voor het behoud, de rechter vond sancties gerechtvaardigd waren.

Eiser gezocht sancties voor beroving verweerder MSI's van documenten. Specifiek, MSI was niet in staat om bepaalde informatie te produceren, met inbegrip van "een utility minstens een keer gebruikt om te testen op FDC problemen", en gaf toe dat bij het inschakelen haar e-mail server in 2003, "Het gewoon verwijderen de e-mails die zijn opgeslagen op de vorige server." De Magistraat rechter ontkende eiser beweging en, bij eiser bezwaar, de zaak ging bij de District Court Judge.

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Law conference will address relationship of eDiscovery and social media

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. Specifiek, “the lawyer’s new nightmare: eDiscovery and social mediawill be a featured discussion section.

Social media has blurred the lines completely between work and private life. Onder andere, 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

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. Specifiek, “the lawyer’s new nightmare: eDiscovery and social mediawill be a featured discussion section.

Social media has blurred the lines completely between work and private life. Onder andere, 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 voegt Local Business Search functie – WSJ.com

In een poging om meer reclame te krijgen dollars van de bedrijven in de buurt van mensen met behulp van de zoekmachine, Google Inc. is vernieuwing hoe het informatie over lokale bedrijven displays.

Google's Place Search, die naar verwachting wereldwijd uit te rollen door de donderdag, geeft Google-gebruikers meer informatie over lokale bedrijven, zoals restaurants en stomerijen, direct op de eerste pagina met resultaten, met een foto, herziening ratings en een fragment van een evaluatie van sites, zoals CitySearch.com of Yelp.com, evenals links naar die review sites.

Laurier Tate, mede-eigenaar van Two Sisters Sole LLC, een kleine schoenen en accessoires winkel in Boulder, Colorado, zegt dat het nieuwe formaat kan helpen kleine bedrijven als de hare.

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Google voegt Local Business Search functie – WSJ.com

In een poging om meer reclame te krijgen dollars van de bedrijven in de buurt van mensen met behulp van de zoekmachine, Google Inc. is vernieuwing hoe het informatie over lokale bedrijven displays.

Google's Place Search, die naar verwachting wereldwijd uit te rollen door de donderdag, geeft Google-gebruikers meer informatie over lokale bedrijven, zoals restaurants en stomerijen, direct op de eerste pagina met resultaten, met een foto, herziening ratings en een fragment van een evaluatie van sites, zoals CitySearch.com of Yelp.com, evenals links naar die review sites.

Laurier Tate, mede-eigenaar van Two Sisters Sole LLC, een kleine schoenen en accessoires winkel in Boulder, Colorado, zegt dat het nieuwe formaat kan helpen kleine bedrijven als de hare.

via Google voegt Local Business Search functie – WSJ.com.