social-networks
Brokers must think twice before tweeting, Facebooking
If you’re a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you’ll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting the rules that govern how brokers present advice to the public to cover online social networks; and, in some cases, the guidelines rely on social network monitoring and archiving technology that doesn’t even exist yet. The new guidelines have two broad effects on the way financial firms use social media.
Continue reading »Snapture iPhone App Now Allows Sharing via Twitter And Facebook
Many iPhone users are probably familiar with Snapture, one of the most popular paid photo apps for the brand. His developers upgraded it a few days ago and its new features will make it even more desirable as they include the ability to share photos on social networks like Facebook or Twitter (which has become almost a must for a top photo app), a new tap-to-focus capability, and also various color modes (black & white, sepia, negative). With all these included, the offering seems to have been pretty attractive at $1.99, the current price of Snapture as it has reached 700,000 downloads already.
Continue reading »MySpace frowns on Obama Joker
|| Politics:- “Obama Joker $1000 Video Contest,” said the header on an InfoWars post on August 7, going on »»» Get the posters in graphic image and PDF format here . See the video entries here , here and here . Alex will announce the winner of the contest this coming Friday.
Continue reading »EFF’s new lawsuit, and how the NSA is into social networking
The government could be building a giant map of social networks using Facebook and Twitter, scraping MySpace pages, or mining the metadata associated with cellular phone calls in order to look for communication patterns. On the other hand, all of that computer power that the NSA is aggregating at the datacenters that are coming online could just be for the limited purpose of snooping voice calls and e-mail coming into and out of the US, but such narrow use is unlikely. What the NSA is doing with its massive and growing capabilities is still a secret, but it’s probably an extension of DoD efforts at mapping social networks that extend back to the early part of the decade. A new EFF lawsuit filed this week could finally shed at least a little more light on the nature of these classified activities, so that we can know for sure whether some descendent of John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness program lives on at the NSA.
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