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Facebook Scraps Places and Implements “Location Tagging” Instead

24

Aug

2011

In a recent announcement made by Facebook, it was revealed that their “Places” feature would be phased out and replaced with a different feature with the same function. A feature called ‘location tagging’. It was a very surprising announcement, considering that it has only been a few months since the Places feature was implemented.By all […]

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Facebook Announces Privacy & Sharing Improvements

24

Aug

2011

Facebook announced some very welcome changes that will make it easier to share content with exactly the people you want to share it with. The biggest change is placing the controls and settings inline right next to the posts, photos, etc. You will no longer have to go digging through privacy or account settings to […]

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LinkedIn responds quickly to complaints about ‘social ads’

12

Aug

2011

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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