Tweet If you are good at solving hard problems and like to program here is something you might do over your winter break: compete in Facebook’s first annual Hackers Cup. The Hacker Cup will...
December 9, 2010
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Full Title: WSJ: many Facebook apps transmit user IDs to advertising and tracking companies This Wall Street Journal article says that many of the most popular of the 550,000 Facebook apps (!)...
October 17, 2010
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11:12 PM
I always think of things I should have added in the hour after making a post. Sigh. Here goes… The situation is perhaps not so different from mailing lists, Google groups or any number of...
October 7, 2010
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10:55 AM
Facebook has rolled out a new version of groups announced on the Facebook blog. “Until now, Facebook has made it easy to share with all of your friends or with everyone, but there hasn’t been...
October 7, 2010
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10:06 AM
Read a good book lately? Why not nominate it for the 2011 UMBC New Student Book Experience, which invites new UMBC students to read the selected book and engage in formal and informal discussions...
September 20, 2010
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Jose Antonio Vargas profiles Mark Zuckerberg in this week’s New Yorker in The Face of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg opens up. It’s a short piece, but I learned a few facts. One in fourteen people in...
September 13, 2010
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Facebook has rolled out Facebook Browser as what sounds like a simple and effective idea — recommend pages based on on a user’s country and social network. My impression is mixed, however. While...
September 12, 2010
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