Category: Social Networking

digital immortality ;-)

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28 February 2010

14:08

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Information Privacy, Social Networking

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I made a posting not long ago about a service being setup in Sweden to manage your virtual identity after you die. Almost like a virtual mortuary 🙂

My hard copy of Wired magazine edition for March arrived this week and lo behold was a whole page dedicated to these type of services. A really cool written article, the three companies mentioned were: AssetLock.net, Legacy Locker, and Deathswitch.com. There is also some service that keeps your digital self in some perpetual state. Capping IT off blog have touched on this in a short post, i.e. to live forever digitally and the behaviour of your digital existence is based upon parameters gathered during your existence by your chosen ‘digital immortality’ service 😉

Don’t toot your horn!

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17 February 2010

12:12

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Social Networking

Here I am sitting on the ferry. Travelling to and from my home is full with time to think and I like that.

Today one of the cars in the queue for the ferry stalled when trying to get up the ramp. So what you may think? Well some strong guys jumped out from several of the cars behind and pushed the car on. Anywhere else and they would be tooting their horns, but not here.

This is why we need social networking. The dispersed family unit, village community a remnant of the past. The feeling that we belong, the feeling that we are a part of something useful.
After all we all have this basic human desire to be liked. Whatever people say I believe that each one if us is fundamentally good and would in the same circumstances help that poor guy rather than toot their horn with impatience.

Like those guys helping the disfunctional car on the ferry. Whilst writing this post they’ve been gathered around working on a solution. One of them is on the phone calling for help. Now the ferry has arrived to the island and the combined force of muscles are pushing the car onto land where I guess it will be towed home
by another friendly island resident that received the phone call and has a towbar on their car.

Power to the people of Skåne!

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13 February 2010

19:52

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Social Networking, Sweden

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There is a lot of activity going on in protest in Skåne (Sweden) whereby the Coop have decided to stop selling milk that is produced in Skåne in their stores and instead sell milk from Denmark. As soon as Coop customers heard that this decision was made a pressure group was set up in Facebook to complain on what grounds this decision was made. This is really easy to do in Facebook. This was going on in 2009. Now there are over 12000 members and it has made Swedish news on the TV.

This is one of those great examples where social networking tools empower the people! This forces the giants to listen and not just brush away this one single irritating fly that won’t stop buzzing. Instead they have a hornets nest to manage…

Virtual RIP

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9 February 2010

23:12

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Social Networking, Sweden

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New business is booming in the virtual online worlds, with new needs surfacing as the needs of the physical world are found to be lacking online in the virtual world. One of these is a demand for a third party to take care of a person’s online identity and reputation after they have died. There is a new start-up for example in Sweden called “webwill” that are specialised in cleaning up after death. Even though clearly this type of effort could be done by some person near and dear to the deceased, by using an objective third-party, one can leave effectively a ‘will’ on how one would be seen by their children, grand-children etc., in their online persona after they have moved on to the other not so physical or virtual world 🙂

Webwill offer you the opportunity to take control of your life after you die. So think about this, check it out, it is quite interesting. Website is in both Swedish and English.

Golden rules on SNS

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9 February 2010

19:16

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…one more related to Karen’s article “Facebook ID theft” posted earlier this week…

SNS? I didn’t know there was an acronym for Social Networking Sites (SNSs). Somehow by being in this branch (IT) you tend to be fed with lots and lots of 3 letter combinations that depending on the context you are supposed to know what they mean, hmmm I’m sometimes -very often- overloaded but anyway that’s not the main reason for me to write here today.

The reason  is to give you all advice about a new set of rules that have been created to protect us!! when we (or those who do) access SNSs from our mobile devices.  The organisation behind this brilliant idea is  ENISA (again another set of letters -sorry!) what stands for European Network and Information Security Agency. An extract comes here:

“The paper also gives a comprehensive view of the SNS world under the lens of the European directive on data protection (Dir. 95/46/EC).The Executive Director of ENISA, Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, comments:

“This report provides practical, hands-on advice to the users of how to
more safely be online, anywhere and anytime, when enjoying mobile social networks.”

So this is in indeed gold for us users, worth to at least take a quick look at the full 49 pages report, specially if you are uch a user; here is the link

Here comes also the link to the whole article “Instantly online -17 golden rules for mobile social networks“

Facebook ID theft

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6 February 2010

16:50

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Cybercrime, Social Networking

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People are now hacking into the social networking site, posing as friends in need and requesting money. There is a big article in the Swedish newspaper on this, whereby a facebook user’s friends have been conned for significant amounts of money. Due to the public nature of these profiles, hackers are able to not only identify the location of the person they are pretending to be, but they can also identify and in turn adopt writing styles in their email plead for ‘help’ – making it that much more difficult to spot a fake. What makes this different from ID theft is that it is not the person who’s id that is stolen that is the victim, although clearly it can be very embarrassing for them to subsequently explain their actions, it is that their Facebook identity is stolen and their friends who are the victims.

Tips on how to counteract this type of fraud, apart from not using social networking sites, are provided at ninemsn Today.

Harnessing your social capital!

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4 February 2010

15:30

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Interesting report on the potential use/implementation of social media in organisations today, along with some studies. It is not really positive about the success that organisations are having, although it is clear that this is the only way forward. This follows on nicely to a couple of reports I published in 2009 on harnessing the social capital of an organisation.

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House rules on the privacy settings in Facebook

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13 January 2010

18:32

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I came across a good article, a privacy checklist that you can use to have better control over your privacy settings on Facebook following the recent complaints concerning Facebook’s privacy change.

I have a Facebook profile for some time that I have used to understand its impact on how we are communicating, and make my own mind up on all the hype. However, I have become a little tired of it now… so much irrevelant information. Although there are ways to restict this popping up, it seems that it new irrelevant data pops up as it is created. I will deactivate my account, or even better commit Facebook suicide 😉

Facebook – “That social norm is just something that has evolved over time”

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11 January 2010

13:47

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According to Mark Zuckerberg, the 25-year-old chief executive and founder of Facebook, “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people”. For him, “That social norm is just something that has evolved over time”.

Complete article here (The Guardian): Privacy no longer a social norm, says Facebook founder