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They Continue to Stomp on Privacy – The Social Experiment

**Update: The "Who's been watching my Profile" application (and 25 variants) are a Hoax and a phishing scheme, according to Trend Micro - If you see it, you should not select or accept any offer to see who's been looking at your profile. I got another "Who's checking your profile on Facebook" application. It seems to be the newest annoyance

Has Six Degrees of Separation Really Become Three?

I was rummaging through my photos and videos the other day and realized something. There is no more six degrees of separation. I have met people in the last year that have in fact hob-nobbed with the celebs. I have Friends on Facebook being friends with other friends of facebook - And I don't even know how they know each

GNC-2010-02-18 #553 Live in Texas

Probably advisable not to be in the Ustream chat with a pizza handle, I will ban you. He folks hopefully this show encoded ok the last one had some issues. I replaced it but not before about 25,000 of you had downloaded it. Lots of tech tonight and some stimulating questions for you to respond to. Support by these fine

Facebook Changes and Mom

As most of you know, Facebook has changed their page layout. Without notice or choice, they flipped the switch. One minute it’s one way and the next minute it’s different. That’s normally not a problem for a web savvy person such as yourself. (I’m assuming if you are reading Geek News Central, you are above average computer and web skills)

GNC-2010-02-09 #550 Big Studio Surprise!

Came home from Chicago to a Studio surprise that I was not expecting. Had a great trip to Chicago, great meetings with the team out there shaping up to be a year of growth and opportunity. Lot's to share on today's show. One thing is for sure better being here warm than freezing in the Windy City. Support by these

Facebook the Riskiest Social Networking Site?

Is Facebook the riskiest social networking site? According to a survey by Sophos released last week, 72% of companies surveyed indicated they had concerns about the safety of employees using the Facebook social networking site. The concern was that an increase in viruses and other computer infections were a direct result of employees using Facebook on company computers. As a

Facebook Privacy and You

There is a great article in the New York Times (link may not work after a few days - since NYT is going to a paywall) about setting your privacy settings on Facebook to the best advantage. I, like many others, find the new "privacy" rules pretty confusing, not knowing what means what. The article outlines three things you should