True Location exposes the fakes
September 8th, 2011 by Sarah KingOver on Digitalpoint I’ve had the ability to see where people really are for a while and mostly people are where they say they are. Its always a concern when people try to be somebody they’re not and so now at the top of your posts we can now see you “fun” location and your “true location”.
We all have to come from somewhere and its not that we should be proud of it, but we definitely shouldn’t be ashamed. We are who we are and its what we make of our lives that really matters.
In the meantime… have a laugh at these fakers
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I was requested to remove any national bias so I’ve deliberately handpicked equal numbers for India and Pakistan but the rest of the grid shows that they are not alone – and one of the Pakistan fakers isn’t there but wants to be. Actually, India is one up because I couldn’t leave out the Las Vegas example. So much unnecessary detail!
I noticed that the Indians were more likely to give their location as a web address than a fake real world address.
Don’t assume Find My Phone works!
August 15th, 2011 by Sarah KingA quick warning to iPhone users/iPad users to test Find My Phone after installation.
I tested it against an iPhone and an iPad.
The iPhone worked instantly. “OMG Mum, what have you done” howled my daughter.
The iPad (wifi only) however refused to acknowledge the message that was sent until I tethered it to my Android phone. Instantly it was “found” and the messages sent.
Back home on regular wifi the Find My Phone system seems to be able to keep track of it.
So test Find My Phone, check it occasionally to ensure it is keeping track.
Will TreatFeeder kill TreatFeed?
May 17th, 2011 by Sarah KingOr “How your affiliates can kill your brand“.
We’ve got an interesting situation at digitalpoint at the moment where a bot (or just underpaid, semi literate humans?) signs up for new accounts and posts a handful of identical posts.
Human seems possible when you see them leave in their instructions (should be clickable)
An email to TreatFeed hasn’t elicited any response but you’d have to think all that funding will have to go into marketing to clean up the negative PR associated with all that spam.
Another problem child is DVDrip who try to lure you into downloading a new release DVD from Filesonic – a pay per download site. They’re not happy that their links are being spammed about the place and I gather they are watching DVDrip with interest. Good job!
Akismet
I’m at a loss as to why these posts aren’t ending up in the moderated threads queue reserved for those that Akismet finds dubious. Surely digitalpoint isn’t the only forum being spammed by these two? How long until they reach the threshold and start getting sidelined? Not long, I hope!
facebook has a long way to go – wishlist
March 22nd, 2011 by Sarah KingNormally I’m a very casual facebook user. My tweets are posted automatically and I check up on what my friends have posted. I don’t belong to every page with a cutsie name and I’d have said my requirements were minimal.
Then I decided to use it to do something funky and the whole thing falls over.
Scenario #1
We’re organising a weekend away to do a bike “race” and are sharing accommodation with friends and friends of theirs. The first facebook message comes out to all of us and if I reply it goes back to the same people.
But what if I want to forward the message on to someone? Or reply to just one of the people. Sorry, no can do.
How about if I want to know who has read their messages and who hasn’t (and therefore needs a phone call)? Can’t do that either.
Facebook messaging was heralded as the great alternative to email. Sorry fb, its not, not yet anyway.
Scenario #2
I’m heading off on a chearleader’s trip to LA and want to post photos and video for the parents back home. We’re talking pre-teens and early teens so I need to protect the girls privacy.
I don’t want to be friends of all those parents so a group is ideal to protect the girls and still share some info. I can create it, add my daughter and then let her add her team mates and they can add their parents. Simple.
Except that there aren’t albums within Groups and so my iPad uploader apps can’t post the photos to the right place and my iPad apps don’t allow me to post photos (which I wouldn’t want to do 1 by 1 anyway).
If I upload the photos to one of the albums on my profile I can restrict the access but its still very limited. I can choose friends, friends of friends or specific people. I can’t say “this group” and then give a link from the group to the album.
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The Generation Gap that swallows you whole!
January 21st, 2010 by Sarah KingAn SOS went out today from a young BMX racer via Facebook that his website had been hacked. I took a look at http://marcwillers.com/ and the first thing that struck me was that it wasn’t a typical hacking… closer inspection of the Facebook messages showed that there was some sort of conflict between Marc and “RMC” – the original site developer.
A few hours later and Marc’s site is back to normal, but with a new post of midget porn dedicated to RMC.
Now I’ve met both these guys and RMC runs (owns?) a large bike store across town. I’m guessing amongst his mates he has a reputation as a prankster (although there will be a hipper name these days).
Marc made it to the Olympics in his chosen sport and it’s a tough sport where you need as much of a mental edge as with any other. I race BMX too and there’s something very special about it and the people
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But you're not my friend!
July 25th, 2009 by Sarah KingWith great amusement I noted that Digitalpoint have upgraded their forum and turned on the social networking side of vBulletin and I had a swag of “friend requests” waiting for me.
It reminded me of an incident this week when I recieved a Facebook friend request from someone who was instrumental in an accusation of professional misconduct directed toward me last year. After the guys at Computer Forensics had done their job they they had also shown who was in the wrong.
Now why, oh why, would this chap suddenly want to be “my friend”. We don’t talk, meet face to face or have business dealings? I can think of only two reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
SuperStock.com get heavy over stolen images
October 21st, 2008 by Sarah KingSuperStock isn’t a site I’d visited before but they appear to be one of the bigger stock photography companies on the web. Right now I’m following a case where a guy used one of their images without permission (or paying, I’d guess). The image has been removed but he also checked online to see if he was doing the right thing. Unsurprisingly he didn’t get much sympathy. Read the rest of this entry »
