Social Media and its influence

Facebook says it is not required to give you a copy of some of your personal data as it could adversely affect the company’s trade secrets and i...

An Austrian group called Europe versus Facebook has so far made 22 complaints regarding the social network’s practices. In the process, the organization has stumbled upon an important tidbit:

Facebook says it is not required to give you a copy of some of your personal data if it deems doing so would adversely affect its trade secrets or intellectual property.

Chances are Facebook not only has your phone number, but a whole phone book of all your friends’ numbers too.

Hacktivism has surged this year, but it’s taking on a new role in the London riots.

lackBerry Messenger has been pinpointed as one of the main mediums that rioters in London have been using to communicate and, well, organize themselves, so to speak.

Now Research in Motion, as if they haven’t had a bad enough year already, is the caught in the middle.

RIM’s Inside BlackBerry blog was hacked into after the Canadian mobile phone maker agreed to cooperate and help British police forces. As of 9:30AM PT on Tuesday, the site was still down and just looked like a blank page.

Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership,” says Google engineer.

A Google engineer wrote a brilliant memo that wound up being shared to the masses on Google+. The gist: Google doesn’t know a thing about platforms and that fact threatens its existence given that Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook understand them.

Two teenagers appeared in court today in connection with messages they posted on Facebook allegedly encouraging people to riot in the UK.