This is a frightening prospect that any social media posting, even years old, can be used in background checks.
A controversial firm which scours social media sites to check on job applicants has bee approved by the Federal Trade Commission. The approval means anything you’ve ever said in public on sites including Facebook, Twitter and even Craigslist could be seen by your would-be employer.
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On average, people are spending more time inside mobile applications than they are on the web, according to an analysis from Flurry, a mobile analytics firm.
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People cannot develop close bonds with more than 150 friends.
Do you may boast of having an impressive list of friends on social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut? But a new study suggests that your brain can’t handle more than 150 friends.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: On Monday evening I presented my thoughts on the “Future of Mobile Apps & Peripherals” at our monthly Night with a Futurist event. My talk was followed by a fascinating panel discussion with three of the industry’s brightest minds – Michael Sitarzewski, Lisa Calkins, and Gary Moskoff with Karl Dakin moderating the discussion.
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This crisis map, created using Ushahidi software, is keeping track of unfolding events in Libya.
From Libya to Japan, a Web-reporting platform called Ushahidi has helped human rights workers and others document and make sense of fast-moving crises. The platform allows reports from cell phones and Web-connected devices to be collected and displayed on Web-based maps.
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Social networking ranked as one of the most popular distractions while driving.
One in five Americans with a smartphone admits to using the internet while driving, with social networking ranking as one of the most popular distractions that’s taking eyes off the road.
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Scientists used social-network analysis to find the origins of an outbreak of tuberculosis (top).
It was the baby’s case that first caught people’s attention: an infant in a medium-sized community in British Columbia that was diagnosed with tuberculosis in July 2006. When public health workers took a deeper look at the community’s medical records, they found a number of additional cases suggestive of an outbreak. By December 2008, 41 cases had been identified, bumping up the region’s annual incidence rate by a factor of 10.
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