Path is a lovely app. It pushes all the right buttons. It's mobile, it's tactile, it's personal, it's full of people we love and moments that matter to us. It makes us feel good. It's got all the greatest hits a post-Facebook social app should have. It's also free. "Facebook will always be free," it tells us, so free is now the standard. Free apps are expensive, though; we pay with our data. Whenever Facebook or Google messes with our privacy, this is the cost of doing business for free. Path is  show all text

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An undercover police officer "chased himself round the streets" for 20 minutes after a CCTV operator mistook him for suspect.

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"Es ist wichtig, dass, wenn man im Netz surft, es sicher tut": Familienministerin Schröder findet zum Safer Internet Day kaum mehr als schöne Worte. Ihre Ministerkollegin Aigner hat da etwas mehr zu sagen.

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Led by apps for mobile devices, the "app economy" is responsible for almost half a million jobs in the U.S., estimates a new study sponsored by CEO network TechNet. But the study also says figures may represent "jobs not lost."

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I care about the open web because it's the platform I develop on. I have good skills and development tools for the Web and Mac OS and Windows. So that's where I develop. If I have my way I'll be able to continue doing that indefinitely, but I worry about Apple and the future of the Mac. I have a feeling the same reasons I can't develop for IOS will turn out to make the Mac impossible for me to work on. Or maybe I'll have to stop updating my system at some point. For a while it seemed that Twitt...  show all text

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What started as a bit of aimless tinkering for developer Arun Thampi ultimately unearthed something very surprising about personal life-sharing service Path. As a fan of the app, Thampi took it upon himself to look at the API calls that the app made to Path’s service and found that his “entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path.” Puzzled, Thampi created an entirely new Path and tried again, only to be faced with the same results. Feel...  show all text

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  Blogger Arun Thampi discovered something that may or may not sit right about the free social media app Path while packet sniffing the app last night. Upon first installing the app and registering for an account, Path sends each one of your contacts in your address book to their server via a. plist. The .plist includes full names, phone numbers, and e-mails. Path makes the call “https://api.path.com/3/contacts/add” when you first create an account, and it uploads all your contacts to its serve...  show all text

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If you have one of the few Android devices currently running Ice Cream Sandwich, then you're going to love this post. The rest of you, including those of you on iOS, will have to gaze longingly for a while. Because Chrome just landed on Android.It's faster. It syncs everything (provided you want it to). It has nifty transition effects and a more intuitive system for jumping between tabs. And it's also loaded with potential. Google's Chrome browser, which has skyrocketed to popularity since its ...

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My title is literal, figurative, and facetious all in one. I just hope Google has a good sense of humor about it — because they have a good product on their hands. First of all, yes, Chrome for Android is here. Second, it’s only compatible with Ice Cream Sandwich which is currently on — wait for it — 1% of Android devices. But in an attempt to add some silver-lining to the 1% joke, I will say that Chrome for Android is of a much higher class than the previous Android browser, the aptly-named and  show all text

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According to a report by The Guardian, Sky News has instituted new rules for its reporters when it comes to Tweeting news from their personal accounts.The report references an internal ...

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Personalüberraschung bei Bertelsmann: Gerhard Zeiler, bisher CEO der RTL Group und Vorstandsmitglied des Gütersloher Medienkonzerns, wird das Unternehmen zum 18. April verlassen. Künftig werden Anke Schäferkordt und Guillaume de Posch die RTL Group gemeinsam als CEOs führen. Finanzchef Elmar Heggen komplettiert die Führungsriege. Zudem ersetzt Schäferkordt, die Chefin von RTL Deutschland bleibt, Zeiler als Mitglied des Bertelsmann-Vorstands. Wohin es Zeiler zieht - noch unklar.

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Die Piratenpartei hat die Liste für die Demonstrationen gegen Acta online gestellt. In rund 50 Städten soll es in Deutschland Proteste geben, 19 Länder in Europa sind einbezogen. Polens Regierung tritt bereits den Rückzug an. (Sebastian Nerz, Piratenpartei)

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Even if you haven’t ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere since the startup burst onto the mainstream scene in 2011. The site doesn’t use traditional web building blocks. “It’s almost like a window-shopping mode,” says Khoi Vinh, the former design director for NYTimes.com. “It puts the ball back in the user’s court,” muses Andrew Beck, a web designer at Blue Fountain Media. “It flattens the informa...  show all text

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I couldn’t help myself. Dieser Post ist eine Mischung aus juliaschramm.de/2011/01/06/irrtum-und-holocaust/ und juliaschramm.de/2011/10/30/wahrheit-und-normen/ Achja und einige von euch haben vielleicht auch meine Briefe an xy satt. Sorry! xoxo Lieber Kevin Barth, nun, du bist also gewählter Pirat. Eigentlich hatte ich angefangen dir eine private Nachricht zu schreiben, aber dann dachte ich, dass dein Tweet zu Thema Israelpolitik und Judentum exemplarisch ist. Außerdem liebe ich offene Briefe! U...  show all text

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Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news stories Sky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster. An email to staff on Tuesday laid out new social media guidelines for Sky News employees, including a contentious ban on retweeting rival "journalists or people on Twitter". The new guidelines also warn Sky News journalists to "stick to your own beat" and...  show all text

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of his office’s emails on Monday. While Anonymous is infamous for its hacking know-how, it doesn’t take a genius computer programmer to guess one of the passwords commonly used by Assad’s office accounts: 12345. The string of consecutive numbers is the second-weakest password according to a 2011 study. Anonymous broke into the ...  show all text

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Das deutsche Urheberrecht verträgt sich nicht mit dem Internet - und dabei geht es nicht um illegale Raubkopien: Schon ein Link auf Facebook oder ein Bild bei Pinterest zu posten, kann schnell richtig teuer werden. Das muss sich endlich ändern.

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Seid ihr gerade auf der Suche nach einer Unterkunft für die re:publica 12? Dann hätten wir sechs Hotelempfehlungen für euch, bei denen wir Sonderkonditionen für re:publica Teilnehmer vereinbart haben. Die sechs Hotels liegen nicht nur zentra

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In 2008, we launched Google Chrome to help make the web better. We’re excited that millions of people around the world use Chrome as their primary browser and we want to keep improving that experience. Today, we're introducing Chrome for Android Beta, which brings many of the things you’ve come to love about Chrome to your Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone or tablet. Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but it also features seamless sign-in and  show all text

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore [Update] Dave Morin, the CEO of Path has responded in the comments and I’ve pasted it below. As an aside – never in my wildest dreams did I imagine this to blow up like this. I hope we can keep calm and continue to discuss this sensibly. Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this very seriously. We upload the address book to our servers in order to help t...  show all text

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Was bereuen wir, wenn unser Leben zu Ende geht? Eine Palliativpflegerin, die viele Menschen am Sterbebett bis zum Tod begleitete, hat darüber ein Buch geschrieben.

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