Don’t expect free stuff just because you have 2,000 Instagram followers.
The “marketing via influencer bashing” trend has a while to run…
Ooh, live ospreys nesting webcam from Scotland: LIVE: Loch Arkaig osprey cam
Yet another Facebook developer leaks private data
An insanely large Facebook data breach:
The Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva and an app called “At the Pool” used their access to their users Facebook data to make local copies of it, then left that data exposed, in the clear, without a password, on the public internet – 540 million records in all, stored in publicly accessible Amazon S3 buckets.
It looks like the data has been there for five years. And, yet again, it’s via a third party who had access.
Fascinating talk about personal responsibility and social media on the State of the net podcast.
Weird flex for a CMS company, but OK:
”Today Automattic is announcing Happy Tools, a suite of products for the future of work. Each product in Happy Tools has been used internally at Automattic to grow our company.”
Revenue play, at the expense of focus? Hmm.
This is how hyper-partisan sites die: Inside the spectacular fall of WorldNetDaily, the granddaddy of right-wing conspiracy sites