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Instagram: Nevermind the new TOU, Please Come Back
Responding to a maelstrom of criticism, Instagram announced today that they plan to withdraw the proposed Terms of Use changes that sparked outrage across the internet yesterday. According to co-founder Kevin Systrom, Instagram never had any intent to monetize user photos without fairly compensating the photographer, and they are working to revise the TOU wording
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Instagram can now use your content to make money
The eagle-eyed internet has caught another dotcom company looking to cash in on its popularity (and recent integration with Facebook): starting on Jan 16, 2013, Instagram will be using a new Terms of Service agreement that allows it to use any content posted publicly to its service for marketing purposes. “To help us deliver interesting
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Did you really just “like” that?
Bernard Meisler of ReadWriteWeb has put together an interesting article on a curious phenomena occurring on the world’s largest social network, Facebook: people “liking” things that they definitely don’t like, and even scarier, dead people “liking” things, apparently from beyond the grave. In short, Mr. Meisler after noticing some out-of-character “liking” behavior among his friends,
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Gmail Outage Not Apocalypse – Just Human Error
Yesterday, the internet experienced a moment of apocalypse angst when Gmail users around the world (including C2) experienced a variety of issues getting email. Lasting roughly 40 minutes, users experienced complete outages, slowness and, if they were using Chrome with browser syncing enabled, outright application crashes. It turns out, rather than being able to blame
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Facebook – Just a little more totalitarian than before
Last week, Facebook opened up a vote on its usage and terms policies that included in the changes the removal of user pivilege of voting on future changes to said policy. In order for the user vote to be binding, 30% of Facebook’s user population (approximately 300 million users) needed to cast a vote in
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Dunce of the Year Award
We’ve already seen way too much of some politicians and celebrities on the internet, but it seems human foolishness knows no bounds where the internet is concerned: sharp eyes have spotted a trend of people posting things like driver’s licenses, debit cards and other items with sensitive personal information in plain view on the internet
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