Facebook to take their election tools overseas

Facebook's political squad looks overseas [CNET News]

Having had a major influence in the presidential election this week, Facebook is looking abroad to provide the social networking tools that allowed campaigns to organize their supporters and to recruit additional supporters. 

"This week is definitely all the post-election aftermath, but I'm definitely looking forward to jumping right into some of the international politics (and) international elections," said Zuckerberg (who is, in case you were wondering, CEO Mark Zuckerberg's sister). "It's a little more fun to work on some of those because they don't draw out their elections for a year and a half."

According to Facebook, more than 5.4 million users clicked on the "I Voted" button on their Facebook account on Election Day. Over three-quarters of Facebook users live outside the U.S., so there are plenty of users that can take advantage of Facebook in their home country's elections. 

 

WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Partially Cracked [Broadband Reports] 

Researchers have announced that they have partially cracked the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security protocol. This article indicates that the researchers managed to find a way to crack WPA's Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) in twelve to fifteen minutes. This partial crack could allow an intruder to monitor data going from a wireless router to computers connected to the router.

The researchers conducting this test recommend upgrading to the WPA2 protocol because it is safe from this kind of attack. Most Wi-Fi routers support WPA2. If you have questions, check your router's documentation about how to switch to WPA2.

This also has implications on neighbors being able to use your Internet connections.  That will slow you down but if and when caps are more widely implemented, it will also have an economic impact on users as well.  Guess it's time to upgrade our security settings.

More Specifics On AT&T's Cap Plans [Broadband Reports] 

Broadband Reports has the scoop on AT&T's download cap trial, including the different cap sizes for each tier of service. All service tiers will be subject to a cap, starting at 20 gigabytes per month. As earlier reported, the testing is occurring in the Reno, Nevada market and will be tested in another unnamed market by the end of this year. Looks to me like their cap levels are thoughtful and reflective of the different usage patterns of their customers.

Project Turns GPS Phones Into Traffic Reporters [Slashdot] 

Researchers at cell phone manufacturer Nokia and the University of California have developed a program for cell phones that use crowd sourcing to develop detailed traffic reports for the Bay Area. The free program taps into each user's cell phone GPS to determine where a user is driving and how quickly they are moving. Then the data from thousands of cell phones is aggregated into detailed traffic data that is available to all drivers. 

Would you be willing to put a program on your phone that transmitted your location information in exchange for traffic information?  Ask me that question when I'm sitting in a New York traffic jam.  I'm in.

HBO Nabs Rights to Obama Documentary [Multichannel News] 

A documentary team following President-elect Obama since early 2006 will see their final film aired on HBO. The yet to be named documentary was created and produced by Edward Norton's Class 5 Films company. The documentary promises a behind the scenes view of the Obama campaign from its initiation to historic wins in the Democratic primary and general election. HBO has said the film will premiere sometime next year.

Comments

[Jorgedum]

Apparently in early 2008 Videotron increased the pagacke fee for one of my pagackes, but only for new subscribers to the pagacke. Since I changed my channel lineup online, their vast intelligent computer decided that I was adding a new service (even though I wasn't) and charged me the new rate, which was $1 more a month.

[Indri]

i think, correct me if i am wrong, that this is not that imtarpont to spend all the time of the interview to crunch numbers but to put down a comprehensive framework and be able to think laterally and think about the MARKET (is the product innovative, are they any competitors, what is their product worth, their market share )

[Gamage]

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