The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A member of Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, recently took a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Facebook’s data warehouse and plotted out their relationships. The result? A stunningly beautiful—and accurate—map of the world. Source Phi Beta Iota: What really matters in the above is not the light, but the darkness. Facebook–and …
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Israel used Facebook to stop European pro-Palestine activists IntelNews.Org, 12 July 2011 Joseph Fitsanakis Israeli intelligence services managed to stop dozens of European pro-Palestine activists from flying to Israel, by gathering open-source intelligence about them on social media sites, such as Facebook. According to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, intelligence gathered on Facebook formed the …
Is Facebook a Liberator or The Man? This post is highlighting content areas for The Future of Facebook project, a six-part video series exploring the impacts of social networking technologies on our lives and business. Social networks are a tool for activism and civic engagement, as well as a means of control, manipulation, and surveillance. What …
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The Role of Facebook in Disaster Response Posted on May 22, 2011 by Patrick Meier| I recently met up with Facebook colleagues Simon Axten and Matt Perault to discuss the role that they and their platform might play in disaster response. So I thought I’d share some thoughts that come up during the conversation seeing as …
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Why Facebook Town Hall Shows Obama is Missing the Point on Innovation Haydn Shaughnessy Re:thinking Innovation Yesterday’s Town Hall meeting at Facebook produced one big surprise – the tepid questioning fired at President Obama from America’s tech elite. . . . . . . . [Instead of Obama and Facebook look to Don Tapscott and …
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Phi Beta Iota: The below commentary is so spectacularly intelligent and concise we are cross-posting it from Quora, with a link to the original project and multiple questions as the end of the observations. Kari O’Brien, Digital Strategist The biggest threat to Facebook is innovation. We forget before there was Facebook, there was Friendster, there …
