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Paper.li Offers Embed Code For your Site

Like it or not it seems that Paper.li and its Twitter/Facebook Aggregator is sticking around due to its popularity.

Paper.li allows users to create their own regular issue newspaper that looks into either their Twitter or Facebook streams to gather together shared links.  It then puts those stories together in a newspaper . . .

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Is Facebook Doing Enough With Their Privacy Changes?

 

So the big news conference has been the highlight of all the big tech sites over the last day or so and it seems a mixed bag of responses.  Some are praising Facebook’s new found awareness of how important privacy is to its users while others still believe that they just do . . .

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140Mafia Make Us An Offer We Can Opt Out Of

Here we go again – just the other day I wrote about an Opt Out option for the game Spymaster in my post Do You Want to be a Spymaster on Twitter? Me neither! 

Well just a few days later there is another game using Twitter as the medium but the difference . . .

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Do You Want to be a Spymaster on Twitter? Me neither!

I am not here to bash the SpyMaster game that has picked up on Twitter in the last several weeks.  What people do with their time is their business – no issues there for me. 

My issue is when I start to receive unsolicited Direct Messages (DM’s) from Spymaster players.  . . .

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Pre-Recorded Telemarketer Calls Banned!

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized two amendments that will finally give all of us options to opt-out of these pre-recorded calls.

Not covered by the ban are calls that deliver purely "informational" prerecorded messages – notifying recipients, for example, that their flight has been cancelled, that they have a service appointment, . . .

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