Big vs Small – your photographs used without your permission or compensation
Trying to fight the Big with numbers!
This is about one of my contacts on Flickr, a person who loves photography and makes amazing work, a person who's photographs of the volcano in Iceland that bothered everyone and disrupted the European aviation for days GOT USED WITHOUT PERMISSION BY FOX NEWS.
So how can we help?
If you got advice to give, please do so.
If you got a way to contact the right person from FOX, please share that information (attempts to contact FOX NEWS were fruitless, but the right person to contact may do the trick).
If you experienced something similar, share, it's important to bring these things to other's attention.
Here is a link to the Flickr page with the problem described. I will not post too much, you can visit this page, see the images this person takes and read the story from the original source.
Orvaratli
With hope for better,
Z.
Twitter phishing wave
I got a habit of skimming through my spam folder every time the amount of spam I got is not too large. This is partly because I've seen many false positives, e-mails from friends, web agencies or newsletters being mistakenly placed in my spam folder.
Today I noticed a message from "Twitter" letting me know that two messages could not be delivered.. so I decided to look if the mail did come from Twitter and where it takes me. Please see the image bellow.
See the red marked area with the link inside ? That's no Twitter page!
Nothing much I could do, but advise to be careful about the different e-mails you get and look in the browser bottom bar where you are being taken to, before clicking on that innocent looking link.
Phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. - Wikipedia
Have a safe day!
Z.
The Mobile Internet
Taken from Atmosphere (Events at Google), it is a video with Mary Meeker, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. I'll make a short introduction about Mary Meeker, in case you do not know who she is and to give some insight into why watching this video is important.
Mary G. Meeker is an American Wall Street securities analyst primarily associated with the Internet. She is known as "Queen of the Net" after an issue of Baron's Magazine in 1998.
Meeker's work has been recognized in various Wall Street Analyst Polls including those conducted by Greenwich Associates, Institutional Investor, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Red Herring.
Her research coverage includes PC software companies such as Adobe, Corel, Intuit, Macromedia, Microsoft, and Symantec. In PC hardware, she follows companies that include Apple, Compaq Computer, and Dell Computer. Her new media coverage includes America Online, Avid Technology, Broderbund Software, Electronic Arts, Maxis, Netscape, and The 3DO Company.
The Mobile Internet with Mary Meeker was one of the hits at Atmosphere, her manifesto being also know as The Mobile Internet Report. She covers a bit of history since the 90s to be able to put in perspective the actual state and estimate the growth and direction of Mobile Internet. She focuses a little on E-Commerce on Mobile platforms, comparative graphics between Desktop Computing, Desktop Internet and the adoption of Mobile Internet and much much more.
Simply watch the embedded video.. it's definitely a very worth 35 minutes of your day, especially if your business deals with technology and even more so if it's Internet and it's Mobile or E-Commerce.
Enjoy!
Z.