DDOS on twitter, facebook and livejournal
It will be interesting to see what comes from today’s DDOS attacks on twitter, facebook and liveJournal. It is certainly a show of strength from whoever controls the botnets that launched the attacks....
View ArticleHow lotteries like Spain’s El Gordo enhance social ties
The economist has an article, Gamblers united, on Spain’s lotteries, like El Gordo (“the Fatty”) will will pay out €2.3 billion this year. What I found interesting is that this and other Spanish...
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ICWSM best paper award for work on study of online social dynamics
A paper by AISL CO-PI Lada Adamic and her students received a best paper award from the Fourth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. The paper studied how online social structures...
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Creating more secure cloud computing environments
The Air Force recently highlighted some of our AISL MURI research done at the University of Texas in Dallas on developing solutions for maintaining privacy in cloud computing environments. The work is...
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Papers with more references are cited more often
The number of citations a paper receives is generally thought to be a good and relatively objective measure of its significance and impact. Researchers naturally are interested in knowing how to...
View ArticleAn ontology of social media data for better privacy policies
Privacy continues to be an important topic surrounding social media systems. A big part of the problem is that virtually all of us have a difficult time thinking about what information about us is...
View ArticleFacebook Browser gets a low F1-score in my book
Facebook has rolled out Facebook Browser as what sounds like a simple and effective idea — recommend pages based on on a user’s country and social network. My impression is mixed, however. While I like...
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How the DC Internet voting pilot was hacked
University of Michigan professor J. Alex Halderman explains how his research group compromised the Washington DC online voting pilot in his blog post, Hacking the D.C. Internet Voting Pilot. “The...
View ArticleNew Facebook Groups Considered Somewhat Harmful
I always think of things I should have added in the hour after making a post. Sigh. Here goes… The situation is perhaps not so different from mailing lists, Google groups or any number of similar...
View ArticleWSJ: many Facebook apps transmit user IDs to advertising and tracking companies
This Wall Street Journal article says that many of the most popular of the 550,000 Facebook apps (!) have been transmitting identifying information about users and their friends to dozens of...
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