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Young Adults Care About Online Privacy After All

May 18, 2023 by Arnold Zafra

Who says that young online people don’t care about their privacy? If you think that the younger members of social networking sites are too careless in sharing photos of their merry-making with college friends on various social sites, well we are all wrong. According to the report of a study conducted by the University of University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania, young adults care as much about their privacy as their older American counterparts.

The study is among the first quantitative studies looking at young people’s attitudes toward privacy. And according to Mary Madded, a senior researcher at the Pew Internet and American Life Project, this will surely contradict many assumptions that have been made about young adults and their attitudes toward privacy.

The survey was conducted based on a 2009 telephone survey of 1,000 Americans aged 18 and older.  It also found out that among those who responded to the survey question, 69%  said that a company should be fined more than $2,500 if they violated privacy while 54% said that the fine to be imposed should be higher.

Key findings of the study are as follow:

  • Eighty-eight percent of people of all ages said they have refused to give out information to a business because they thought it was too personal or unnecessary. Among young adults, 82 percent have refused, compared with 85 percent of those over 65.
  • Most people — 86 percent — believe that anyone who posts a photo or video of them on the Internet should get their permission first, even if that photo was taken in public. Among young adults 18 to 24, 84 percent agreed — not far from the 90 percent among those 45 to 54.
  • Forty percent of adults ages 18 to 24 believe executives should face jail time if their company uses someone’s personal information illegally — the same as the response among those 35 to 44 years old.

via Yahoo News

Originally posted on April 17, 2010 @ 9:57 pm

Filed Under: Internet, Social Networks Tagged With: online privacy

Twitter Announces New Features – Annotations, Places and User Streams

May 17, 2023 by Arnold Zafra

Twitter made quite some noise today at its Chirp conference for developers. Aside from announcing that all public tweets will be archived by the Library of Congress starting with those publish as early as 2006, Twitter has also announced three new interesting features – Places, Annotations and User Streams. In brief, here’s what these three features are about.

Places – This is a new location feature which Twitter will implement to give developers a database of places around the world that will easily be associated with tweets corresponding to the location of the Twitter member who posted the tweet. Somehow, it works like location-based social tools such as Gowalla and Foursquare, although Twitter would not rather call it as a “check-in” facility.

Annotations – This is quite an interesting new feature as it will allow developers to incorporate arbitrary metadata to any tweet in the Twitter public timeline. These metada include information such as which tweet was a specific tweet made in reply to, the location where the tweet was posted, as well as the app used for posting/creating that tweet.

User Stream API – This will provide developers access to feed of user actions such as mentions, favoriting, and friending done by users on their individual Twitter accounts.

In addition to those three new features, Twitter is also launching a new site which will host various Twitter development resources. The site, dev.witter.com will feature documentations, and other information useful to developers.

Originally posted on April 14, 2010 @ 9:17 pm

Filed Under: Internet, Social Networks Tagged With: twitter api, twitter developers, twitter features

Google Buzz Gets An Official Share Button

May 17, 2023 by Arnold Zafra

If you  liked Buzz since day one chances are you’ve probably clicked on those Google Buzz share buttons developed and implemented by top blogs such as Mashable and TechCrunch. You may have also used some “unofficial” follow me on Google Buzz buttons in your blogs or websites. The thing is implementing those unofficial Google Buzz buttons maybe a tedius process and may require some codings and all.

But that was the case before, not until now. Google has just launch the official Google Buzz sharing buttons. Starting today, you’d be seeing more of those official Google Buzz share buttons on top sites which have partnered with Google. These include The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Glamour, YouTube and others. These buttons will make it easier for you to share interesting news items you find on the Internet and post it as updates to your Google Buzz accounts.

Likewise, those third-party share widgets/buttons such as Share This, Shareholic and other have also started implementing the Google Buzz button in their widgets.

Now, to post the Google Buzz button in your own blog/site, you can grab the Javascript code from this site and paste it to your site’s code.  You can also add the official follow me on Google Buzz button to your blogs/sites by also grabbing the code for it from the said site.

There you go, some new ways to spread the buzz and if you don’t like Google Buzz – add some more noise to the Buzz sphere.

Originally posted on April 14, 2010 @ 12:46 am

Filed Under: Internet, Social Networks, Web Tools Tagged With: google buzz, share buttons

Move Over iPad, Here Comes the WePad

May 17, 2023 by Arnold Zafra


There you go. What was being touted as an iPad killer even before the iPad was officially released finally gets to come out of the closet and was finally and officially launched. We’re talking about the WePad. It’s definitely not the plural form of the iPad but rather a different product, created by the German company – Neofonie.

Some of the things that we don’t know yet about WePad are pretty interesting. For example, reports said that there will be two WePad models – a 16GB WiFi and 64GB HD-capable unit.  The rest of the WePad specs and features are pretty impressive, well of course if you’re looking at it from the perspective of what a tablet should be.

The WePad boasts of 11.6-inch touchscreen display, Intel Atom N450 CPU, two USB ports, onboard webcam, and of course something which has been much sought after from the iPad – Flash support.

And some of the major features that you can enjoy with the WePad include – browse the Internet, watch YouTube, check email, chat with friends on Facebook and more.

The WePad is also banking on the open-source dictum, having built the WePad’s platform on Android and Linux.  So, you can just imagine the possibility of more apps coming into the WePad’s way once it becomes publicly available.

WePad is also promising something about “WeMagazine.” This is an ePublishing Open Platform that provides publishers with tools necessary to develop their publication-specific applications for the WePad.

Could the WePad revolutionize the web magazine  publishing industry? Will it be able to steal the thunder away from the Apple iPad?  Are Flash support and Android or Linux OS enough to convince you to get the WePad?

Originally posted on April 13, 2010 @ 1:17 am

Filed Under: Internet, Media, Mobile Tagged With: wepad

Twitter Acquires Tweetie iPhone App

May 16, 2023 by Arnold Zafra

For quite some time now, despite being one of the top social media service, Twitter has not been so active in the mobile scene.  There are third-party iPhone apps available on various mobile platforms, but none has been coming from Twitter itself.

So after releasing the public beta version of the Twitter for BlackBerry app, Twitter’s next target to fulfill its quest of establishing a mobile presence is the iPhone. Twitter has just acquired Tweetie iPhone app  from AteBits. Tweetie will be renamed as the Twitter for iPhone.

Tweetie is one of  the most popular and widely used Twitter app for iPhone. What’s good about this acquisition and interesting as well is that Twitter plans to release Twitter for iPhone as a free app on the Apps Store. Currently, Tweetie is priced $2.99. So, we should also expect that Twitter for iPhone will be available as an ad-supported app.

Loren Brichter, Tweetie’s owner and developer will become part of the Twitter mobile team. In addition, once the Twitter for iPhone is released, an iPad application will also be released.

Will this spike up Twitter’s clout establishing itself at par with Facebook? Only time can tell. Will you be getting Twitter for iPhone once it gets out? Or are you sticking with your current third-party Twitter app?

Originally posted on April 10, 2010 @ 2:47 am

Filed Under: Internet, Mobile, Social Networks Tagged With: twitter for iPhone

Farmville Player Spent £900 Using His Savings and Mother’s Credit Card

May 16, 2023 by Arnold Zafra

I saw this news covered by a local news program yesterday but at first I didn’t give it much thought since I was waiting the the news program’s coverage of the iPad. Then I saw this new hitting the Techmeme’s headline right now and decided to give it a run.

After reading what happened to the 12-year old kid who spent £900 buying Farmville virtual goods, I could not help but sigh and felt relief that it didn’t happen to me. Two of my teen-age kids are into Farmville as well. But they don’t have access to my credit card.

So, the story goes that the kid spent around $900 to purchase Farmville goods using her mother’s credit card and his own savings. The credit card was used by the kid without her mother’s knowledge. All in the name of putting up the “coolest” farm in Facebook.

Zynga, the game developer refused to refund the amount since the kid lives in her mother’s house.  While the credit card company would only refund if the mother will report his son to the police and give him a police record. Now, what kind of mother would do that to her own son?

So, now. The son’s Farmville account was cancelled. The mother and the kid lost quite a sum of money. And Zynga earns. What a crappy system, right?

The kid and his mother should have read TechCrunch’s series on game monetization schemes of Zynga. This could have been prevented from happening.

Lessons learned?  You know that already.

Originally posted on April 9, 2010 @ 12:08 am

Filed Under: Internet, Media, Mobile, Social Networks Tagged With: farmville, virtual goods

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