February 13, 2012

Regulate Facebook and ban hate sites

Ban Facebook hate sites

A cadet reporter came across a new Facebook group this week that was dedicated to denigrating a local teenager, let’s call him Joe. Categorised under “Organizations – clubs and societies”, the group was called “People who think Joe is annoying”. There was a photo of Joe wearing his cricket club cap, with a red line [...]

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Twitter psychological profile

Social and viral marketing scientist Dan Zarrella has released a web tool to analyse people’s psychological profiles on Twitter. Zarrella claims that TweetPsyc uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. “The service analyses your last 1000 tweets and works [...]

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Facebook vanity URL

Facebook now offers personal URLs.

I chose mgorey for my Facebook vanity URL this morning: www.facebook.com/mgorey. I wasn’t up at 2am when the personalised addresses became available in Australia, but having a relatively uncommon surname has its advantages. I now have the same username for Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Skype and Facebook. I don’t actually use Facebook much. The wall content [...]

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Facebook a waste of time?

An internet filtering company scored a PR coup in Australia recently when it released survey results claiming that Facebook cost business $5 billion a year in lost productivity. Putting aside the vested interest of the source, which sells a web and email blocking system, the data had managers scrambling to introduce restrictive policies. Our company’s [...]

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The changing face of communications

The way we communicate has changed dramatically in my relatively short lifetime. When I did computer studies at school in 1983 it was all programming theory; we didn’t have any actual computers in the classroom. When I started working as a journalist in 1987 we used typewriters, the office didn’t have a fax machine and [...]

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