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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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Kaiser Permanente Discloses Data Breach Impacting 13.4 Million People

SecureWorld News

It is believed that PII (personally identifiable information) was transmitted to third-party vendors via mobile applications and other website tools used by the healthcare giant. Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers.

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Newshour: the state of Facebook and social networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Australia Network’s Newshour program recently ran a segment looking at online social networks, in particular Facebook. The program features a number of excerpts from an interview with me about the online social network industry.

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

CIO Business Intelligence

Ask your network, and you’ll likely find IT leader peers who have been in a similar situation at least once in their career. I was in transition twice and wasn’t ready to handle the networking, persistence, and stress that comes with finding a new opportunity. Networking is a lifelong endeavor.

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Facebook Viewpoints App: Concrete Details

Galido

The internet-based life released a fresh out of the box marketing research application called Facebook Viewpoints, which will reward people aged more than 18 for participating in surveys, research study, and market occupations. Presently, Facebook has decided to present its variety of a statistical surveying application called Viewpoints.

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Book excerpt: What makes a great startup idea? Lessons from a veteran entrepreneur

GeekWire

WordPerfect and Lotus made the mistake of simply porting their applications from MS-DOS to Windows, which meant that the applications didn’t perform well on Windows. Over time, Microsoft made sure that all the applications had consistent user interfaces and that it was easy to share data across these applications.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Social Media

ForAllSecure

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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