From Zurich in Switzerland.
Hot WiFi Security Advice (human friendly version): logins must run over SSL/HTTPS. Else your password/data/sessions can be captured EASILY. Your security can be compromised even with a browser plug-in from a stranger's computer inside the WiFi network. How to guard yourself from firesheep and wifi snooping? There's also a Youtube video with some demo.
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While 99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops), 92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops). And as Facebook has grown over the years, representing an ever larger fraction of the global population, it has become steadily more connected. The average distance in 2008 was 5.28 hops, while now it is 4.74.
Source: facebook.com
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What do you think of the push for an open, federated social network and the four NYU students who raised $200,000 for the Diaspora project without having a single line of code?
Zuckerberg: I donated. I think it is a cool idea. Actually it reminds me of this cool thing we built early on called Wirehog. Early on, it was clear that users wanted more photos on the site. There were a set of users who would change their one profile picture every day. And we looked at that data and took that as people want to share more photos.
Source: Wired
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I know!!! It must be the dislike button. Yeah!
