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I really like the new app by OMGPOP called Draw Something. I play this game with my friends possibly a little too much. Draw Something has attracted more than 50 million downloads, and was just acquired by Zynga for $200 million dollars. It was surprising the other day when I noticed an advertisement at the […]

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Earlier this year, I came across a fake seminar outfit called the North American Program Planning and Policy Academy (NAPPPA) [read the comments for more information] running out of a rented mailbox in Los Angeles. NAPPPA was recently covered by ABC15 in Arizona (see video below). It seems to be a bait-and-switch operation. Seminars are […]

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Yesterday, I wrote about LinkedIn’s recent Privacy Policy changes, by means of which the company snuck in the right to use your name and photo in adverts placed by third parties. You weren’t offered the choice to enable this new feature at will, because it was turned on by default for everyone. And LinkedIn didn’t […]

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