Category: Social Media

Forget Facebook, here come’s “Placebook”

SearchCompliance.org’s Alexander Howard summarizes a recent Congressional hearing on location-based services and online privacy here. Mobile applications that use geolocation data have been rapidly adopted as the use of smartphones has exploded. “The emerging check-in model is moving from active to passive location sharing,” said Tony Bernard, vice president and general manager of Colorado-based Useful […]

Political cybersquatting for fun and profit

The Hill reports on the cyberissues facing candidates who haven’t secured their domain names (or their Twitter handles, for that matter). “You’ve got to get your domain name registered early, long before you consider running for office,” said Kari Chisholm, a Democratic Web strategist based in Oregon. “If you don’t do that, it is inevitable […]