Facebook's marketing director Randi Zuckerberg, sister to Mark, has joined the ranks of tech giants calling for an end to online anonymity and pseudonyms.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/argh-another-facebook-zuckerberg-wants-kill-a
Ever wanted a dashboard for your life?�GravityEight wants to become the "Mint.com of your entire life" by tracking everything from your health to your community contribution and displaying the results in a wellbeing wheel.
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http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/02/gravityeight-measure-well-being/
Read 'Google+, Apple's iCloud keep developers keen' on Yahoo! News.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Mobile developers more than ever want to devote their energies to writing apps for Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms at the expense of their less popular rivals, a study released on Wednesday showed.
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http://news.yahoo.com/google-apples-icloud-keep-developers-interested-070236597.html
Can you access protected networks without breaking a sweat? Does just thinking about security exploits get you hot and bothered? Are "spoofing" and "packet sniffing" part of your regular vocabulary? If you answered "Yes" to those questions, and you can prove your hacking prowess at the upcoming DEFCON convention, you may just wind up getting a job offer from government agencies like the NSA.
"Today it's cyber warriors that we're looking for, not rocket scientists," Richard George, the technical director of the NSA's Information Assurance Directorate, told Reuters. He explained there a big upsides to working for the NSA, but there's also a downside that could turn attention-seeking lulz-alikes away from the agency: ""We have a wonderful atmosphere, we have great people and we have the hardest problems on Earth. And we need help, the country needs help... You're not going to make yourself famous working here, that's the downside. You can be internally famous, but you can't be externally famous." ...
In an unusually direct communique, Google uses its Official Blog to complain about a patent war by Apple, Microsoft and Oracle.
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http://mashable.com/2011/08/03/google-vents-about-patents/
When a social network shuts down, your profile may be sold or recycled.
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http://news.discovery.com/tech/where-do-profiles-go-when-networking-sites-die-110802.html
Google's User Experience director Matias Duarte in a panel on Friday justified the look of Android apps. When grilled on why iOS apps tend to be more visually appealing, he took the view that the looks were largely even. He admitted to those at TechCrunch's Mobile First CrunchUp that Android was younger but that, by nature, his job had him see many Android apps that were "very nice-looking."......
