Agreed, Kim. Probably best to get the kids into the social media groove while they are young enough to learn the "right" ways to interact, instead of blocking them -- which will be ineffective anyway.
Perhaps the idea of providing kids with a somewhat safer environment rather than attempting to block them from social media - a futile hope - is not an entirely bad one.
If anyone's interested, this is one of the video's from the Gmail man clip watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCSp23xl40. Warning; it's a Microsoft 365 ad. And a well done one at that!
I like it when sites demand my birthday: it's common, for example, with sites about wine or liquor. I always enjoy putting in something like July 4, 1909.
One site, when I did that, had the wit to redirect me to a site about drinking milk!
Right-o, Kim. There's no real way to establish anyone's identity on the Web -- at least not on Google or Facebook. Plugging in a birthdate isn't confirmation of anything.
All these privacy policy changes and rules about real names and ages are based on the presumption that we have trusted identitires in cyberspace. In other words, that you can reiteratively identify someone as a real individual over a period of time.
But cyberspace is where everyone can always be someone else.
Nicole and Kim have heard the news that Google's new mobile OS, "Jelly Bean," has a voice assistant that's poised to defeat their precious Siri. It's time for another test!
Apple's newest commercial features actress Zooey Deschanel having her requests for weather, soup, and music easily fulfilled by Siri. Nicole and Kim are putting those same questions to the test.
At the IBM Pulse conference, executives urged attendees to stop being guided by hype and start thinking about the cloud and other enterprise "toys" in terms of their own business outcomes.
Congrats to the best-selling author who persuaded Facebook to allow him to register an account as Salman, rather than under his "real" but never used name, Ahmed Rushdie.
Based on reactions in Nicole's Newsfeed, everyone hates this version of Facebook. This should matter to Facebook now that there's a real competitor on the scene named Google+.
Facebook's "Improved Friends Lists" are rolling out, but they're very different from Google+ Circles. The latter are like private labels; you're the only one who sees them. The former are like rooms you can invite visitors to, where they see you and each other. Google's approach is better.
Marissa Mayer at Yahoo has come out with her strategy on turning the company around: culture, company, calibration, and compensation. But Yahoo needs to have a technical approach to the mobile cloud opportunity, not a management theory lesson.
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