Shortly after the Privacy Commissioner's Office in Ottawa announced their findings yesterday, Facebook issued an official response as a press release. Here's what they said.
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Sick of all the Twitter hype? Join the club. Check out this humourous video, Twitter Dat, which reinforces how useless it is to "tweet" everything you're doing. Do people really care what you're having for breakfast or how regular your bowel movements are? Enjoy.
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With the adoption of social media tools like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Flickr at an all-time high, access to the details of people's personal lives has become greater than ever before. While most users agree that the benefits outweigh the risks, a new book suggests that we should take a second look at our second lives.
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Whether you're looking to save cash on your next business trip or simply can’t find vacancy at a hotel (such as in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games), a new Canadian site aims to bring together homeowners with travelers.
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I guess one would expect the wildly popular Twitter to be mentioned a couple of times at a conference dedicated to social media, but Holy Moses, this is ridiculous.
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It's day 2 here at the Mesh conference and we're picking up where we left off from yesterday. Keynotes today include presentations from Bonin Bough - the global director of digital and social media at Pepsi Co. and Toronto Mayor David Miller.
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We're blogging live from MESH 09 in Toronto and here we report from the conference on Using the Web for Good. Darren Barefoot interviews Duarte Da Silva, Gavin Thompson and Sarah Prevette.
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Mesh - a word that implies a coming together of various ingredients or ideas, couldn't be more appropriate for today's web environment. The Mesh web conference which kicked off today in downtown Toronto covers the many ways in which social media is allowing all of us to mesh more - and more often than ever before.
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We're live blogging from the MESH '09 show in Toronto. Here's our coverage of the iTunes chat.
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Sync's Simon Cohen and I are blogging live from the MESH 09 conference in Toronto. In this space we're following the David Usher interview in real-time. It's as if you're here with us. Enjoy!
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