They say that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. We fell victim to the third of those yesterday, and ended up looking like we were committing one of the first two. Here on TNWmicrosoft we wrote a post that was called “Top Windows Phone 7 apps are in the six figure club,” touting surprisingly high sales numbers for the top apps in the WP7 marketplace. We got parts of it dead wrong....
Update at foot of post AOL-owned,about.mehas just rolled out a new feature that it’s beta testing – @about.me email addresses. While @about.me addresses were previously only used by team members, they’re extending the service to anyone who has an account. Your username will become your email address, and you can send and receive emails, and see your incoming messages in your about.me dashboard. About.me’s email also supports IMAP and POP, so you can plug in your email address into your preferred email client....
Academia, a social network for researchers, founded by Oxford Fellow,Richard Pricejust reached 1 million monthly unique visitors. Some of the users includedRichard Dawkins,Noam Chomksyand SirStephen Hawking. Academia brings together academic researchers that are working on different topics and allows them to collaborate, share papers and follow peers. It is aiming to be the number 1 social network for academics and uses some of Facebook’s popular features. Like the Facebook tagging feature, which prompts you to tag yourself in your field of research and the news feed, which shows content that you will find relevant....
Researchers and lawmakers have slammed Facebook for disabling the accountsof academics who wereanalyzing political ads on the platform. The company on Tuesday shut down accounts, apps, pages, and platform access associated with theNYU Ad Observatory, which investigates the transparency of online political ads. Facebooksaid the team’s data collection methods violated the social network’s rules around user privacy. Laura Edelson, one of the researchers whose accounts was banned, slated Facebook’s actions:...
Following on from yesterday’sstoryabout the Australian journalist that was arrested after he wrote a report on a Facebook-hacking stunt at a security conference in Queensland, more details about the case have now emerged. Ben Grubb, a Technology Editor at Fairfax Media, it transpireswasactuallyarrestedby police despite claims by Queensland Police via Twitter that he had only been brought in for interview. The big question that remained was why, exactly, was Ben Grubb arrested when all he had done was report on the unethical actions of an individual at a conference?...
