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November 1, 2015

Snapchat Scare, YouTube Red, Facebook Real Names, and a Fancy Retro Keyboard

JanePublishing NewsFacebook / keyboard / Privacy-issues / YouTube5 Comments

Instead of a big article, here’s a couple of tech news that I thought I’d highlight. The Snapchat Scare (or if you aren’t paying for a product, you are the product).  Snapchat updated it’s privacy policy a couple of days ago. The new policy informs you that they are tracking ... more >

October 4, 2015

Blocked

IAM JSONMiscads / internet security / Privacy-issues10 Comments

I was all set to write about ad blockers in iOS. I downloaded and set up two of the top rated ones, Purify and Crystal. So far my review is short. They were both easy to set up and easy to configure to the extent there was any configuration necessary. So, ... more >

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February 12, 2013

Tuesday News: Racism on the internet; CIA spying; and other self fulfilling things

JanePublishing Newsconflicts of interest / Ethics / Humor / Privacy-issues18 Comments

William Shatner calls out Reddit for racism and hate mongering – Reddit is a site that is full of the cutest cat and dog pictures, viral videos at their inception, and interesting question and answer sessions with famous people. Bill Gates was on the site yesterday during an Ask Me ... more >

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January 28, 2013

Monday News: Grammatical mistakes that haunt you forever; First unsigned artist to hit #1; Google et al require warrants for email contents

JanePublishing Newsbook-sales / Privacy-issues / self-published10 Comments

Macklemore the first unsigned artist in modern history to hit #1 on U.S. Charts  – Macklemore first came to my attention when he did this great music video in support of the gay marriage effort in Washington. I watched “Thrift Shop” on YouTube and quickly forgot it. The other day ... more >

December 28, 2012

Friday News: New crowdsourced publishing effort for YA reads; Congress works hard to erode privacy; Horrible people try to profit off the internet.

JanePublishing NewsApple / Privacy-issues / publishing1 Comments

Swoon Reads Introduces Crowdsourced Publishing Model – Macmillan is taking up where HarperCollins Inkpop left off. HarperCollins launched Inkpop in 2010 and invited writers to come and share their material with others. HarperCollins acquired at least one manuscript from the writers on Inkpop. HC sold Inkpop to Figment in 2012. ... more >

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December 27, 2012

Thursday News: A Zuckerberg becomes confused about Facebook’s privacy settings; Disposing of unwanted giftcards; an online private catalog for your books

JanePublishing Newscloud computing / ebook software / Privacy-issues13 Comments

Randi Zuckerberg Is Just as Confused by Facebook Privacy as You Are – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, generally believes people should live their private lives publicly or at least that is how he runs Facebook with the privacy settings constantly changing and always requiring an opt in action by ... more >

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