This describes a lot of us, no?
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5 things i cant live without:
music
phone
macbook
and love.
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Cairo’s Facebook Flat: In a communal apartment, a group of young Egyptians are broadcasting the revolt in Tahrir Square on Facebook. A video by Ed Ou, Liam Stack and Rob Harris.
No Facebook in the White House.
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First lady: No smoking, no Facebook in White House
Some nice tidbits from TODAY’s interview, including how Michelle Obama doesn’t allow her kids to use Facebook, how Barack has quit smoking and that they cheer when Barack chooses a colored shirt. VIDEO
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People in Tahrir are well aware of the power of facebook and twitter. Multiple signs with both sites. - @ianinegypt
Thank you, Facebook.
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An Egyptian protester holds a sign that reads “Thank you Facebook” - @richardengelnbc
Interesting story on Zuckerberg from the Financial Times.
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I saw Zuckerberg sitting alone on a picnic blanket and joined him. I had meetings later in the day, and happened to be wearing a suit (most people in Silicon Valley wear jeans and T-shirts). Zuckerberg told me to be careful not to get grass stains on my trousers and made some more room on the blanket for me. Then, without prompting, he said: “At least in the movie they got that part right. The first time I met venture capitalists, I really was wearing pyjamas.”Great story. And the Brits spell pajamas weird.
Is this surprising?
Parker is portrayed by Justin Timberlake in “The Social Network,” forcefully shaping his public image as the bad boy of Silicon Valley. He’s been playing out that image at trendy nightclubs in New York City.
He’s also a preternaturally gifted programmer and press-shy suddenly famous billionaire with some extra cash to shower on causes he supports. Parker, who’s one of the founders of Causes, the Facebook application that helps you rally support and donations for nonprofits and charities, can be counted on by friends to contribute to their causes. Among the major supporters of legalizing marijuana in California is Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who has given $70,000.
“Our goal is to make it so that we can design the best integrations in the widest variety of phones,” Zuckerberg told TechCrunch. “We’re trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we’re trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social whether it’s on the Web, or mobile, or other devices.”
Zuckerberg insisted that Facebook is not trying to compete with Apple’s iPhone or Google’s Android phones. But said he could not predict how his company’s mobile strategy would evolve in the future.
“I mean, who knows, 10 years down the road, maybe we’ll build our own operating system or something, but who knows. That is more history than we’ve had so far with the company, so it is really hard to predict that far out,” he said. “But for now, I think, everything is going to be shades of integration, rather than starting from the ground up and building a whole system.”
“ok, nerd maximum denisity has been reached. The line at the Apple store for the iPhone goes from Santa Monica Blvd all the way down the Promenade to Wilshire and around the corner. I’m going down there to sell plastic light sabers.”
— Michael Yeaman via Facebook
FastCompany writes that online privacy is more difficult to navigate, but possible to keep up with - if you check yourself.
From the article:
Online privacy is at worst an illusion, and at best harder to come by than ever—and it’s making headlines every day. Facebook’s under fire for everything from its labyrinth of confusing privacy settings to apparently banning users who want to share. Google inadvertently collected data transmitted on open Wi-Fi networks its Street View cars drove by. People search engines like Spokeo make your photo, salary, and home address accessible at the press of a button. Privacy breaches (or just obfuscated settings) are all too common among Web applications of all stripes, so the savvy surfer has to know how to safely navigate.
Have privacy concerns become more important to you? Have you recently changed privacy settings on Facebook or on other sites? Do you think “will my boss/parent/significant other” see this before you post items online?
Tell us about it here or at go@latimes.com.
