Herbert Mühlburger's Blog

I decided to delete my Facebook account. For all of you who ask now: Why did you do so? Here are my main reasons that led to this decision: Privacy issues I want to be in control on the data that I share I am concerned about my privacy and therefore I do want to [...]

The following video visualizes some recent social media statistics interestingly. Quite impressing how social media has developed over the last year. Facebook for example has gained 200 million users in just one year. That’s incredible … (via crowdspring and mashable) Related articles by Zemanta Socialnomics Revisits ‘Social Media Revolution’ (socialtimes.com) Facebook Status Updates Show Which [...]

Recently I have read about Fiverr, a service which enables users to offer or buy micro-services for $5 Dollars. Here are some sample offers: I will write and record you a song for $5 I will help you with Spanish homework for $5 I will do your maths and programming homework for $5 I will [...]

Mashable has just published a post titled “Nobody Can Stop Facebook Because Nobody Understands Facebook“. There is an interesting sentence in this post: Have the nuances of online privacy become so complex that they’re beyond the comprehension of mere mortals? I’m not saying that Facebook has any intent to cause confusion, but the complexities of [...]

On a six-minute interview on stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg states that if he’d start facebook again all privacy settings by DEFAULT would be PUBLIC. A very interesting approach which leads to the question if people want if all of their data is available publicly? I personally do not. Here [...]