Causes Causes.com is the world’s largest online campaigning platform. Causes connects people who support a common cause and empowers them to take action together. Causes members have raised over $48M for nonprofits, collected 34M signatures for grassroots campaigns, and organized thousands of awareness campaigns. Since launching in 2007, Causes has helped over 186M people in 156 countries connect with their cause.[1] Causes' stated mission is "to empower people to create change in the world through online organizing. Any user can create a campaign on Causes, whether they work for a nonprofit or are an activist, interested in a certain issue. Causes is a for-profit business.[5] Investors include Sean Parker, Founders Fund, the Case Foundation and NEA. Causes launched in 2007 as the first social advocacy application and one of the first 10 Facebook apps. In 2012, Causes launched Causes.com[7] and appointed Matt Mahan as CEO. Official site
Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics were created in 1992 by the Computer Ethics Institute. The commandments were introduced in the paper "In Pursuit of a 'Ten Commandments' for Computer Ethics" by Ramon C. Barquin as a means to create "a set of standards to guide and instruct people in the ethical use of computers." [1] The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics copies the style of the Ten Commandments from The Bible and uses the archaic "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not" found in the King James version. The commandments have been widely quoted in computer ethics literature [2] but also have been criticized by both the hacker community [3] and some in academia. For instance, Dr. The CISSP — an organization of computer security professionals — has used the commandments as a foundation for its own ethics rules.[5] The Ten Commandments[edit] [Sic. The Ten Commandments[edit] Exegesis[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
The Face of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of them are his friends. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities. According to his Facebook profile, Zuckerberg has three sisters (Randi, Donna, and Arielle), all of whom he’s friends with. Zuckerberg cites “Minimalism,” “Revolutions,” and “Eliminating Desire” as interests. Zuckerberg’s Facebook friends have access to his e-mail address and his cell-phone number. Since late August, it’s also been pretty easy to track Zuckerberg through a new Facebook feature called Places, which allows users to mark their location at any time. Zuckerberg may seem like an over-sharer in the age of over-sharing. The world, it seems, is responding. Despite his goal of global openness, however, Zuckerberg remains a wary and private person. Some kids played computer games. “I put men.”
Plaxo Plaxo is an online address book and social networking service originally founded by Sean Parker, Minh Nguyen[1] and two Stanford University engineering students, Todd Masonis and Cameron Ring.[2] Plaxo, based in Sunnyvale, California,[3] is a subsidiary of cable television company Comcast. History[edit] The company launched[2] on November 12, 2002, and was funded by venture capital including funds from Sequoia Capital.[4] Plaxo announced May 14, 2008, that it had signed an agreement to be acquired by Comcast.[5] The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Comcast completed its purchase of Plaxo on July 1, 2008.[6] Plaxo provides automatic updating of contact information. Users and their contacts store their information in the cloud on Plaxo's servers. In May 2008, the website reported 20 million users.[7] In March 2011, Plaxo exited social networking, ended the Plaxo Pulse social networking service, and introduced a new address book updating service. Partnerships[edit] AOL[edit] Comcast[edit]
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died. According to the Los Angeles coroner’s report, she lay dead for the better part of a year before a neighbor and fellow actress, a woman named Susan Savage, noticed cobwebs and yellowing letters in her mailbox, reached through a broken window to unlock the door, and pushed her way through the piles of junk mail and mounds of clothing that barricaded the house. Upstairs, she found Vickers’s body, mummified, near a heater that was still running. Her computer was on too, its glow permeating the empty space. The Los Angeles Times posted a story headlined “Mummified Body of Former Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers Found in Her Benedict Canyon Home,” which quickly went viral. Also see: Live Chat With Stephen Marche The author will be online at 3 p.m.
Napster Later systems successfully followed and elaborated on Napster's file-copying methods, including Gnutella, Freenet, Bit Torrent and many others. Some systems, like LimeWire, Grokster, Madster and the original eDonkey network, were shut down or altered under similar circumstances. Origin[edit] Napster was co-founded by Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Initially, Napster was envisioned as an independent peer-to-peer file sharing service. The service operated between June 1999 and July 2001.[10] Its technology allowed people to easily share their MP3 files with other participants.[11] Although the original service was shut down by court order, the Napster brand survived after the company's assets were liquidated and purchased by other companies through bankruptcy proceedings.[12] History[edit] These reasons aside, many other users simply enjoyed trading and downloading music for free. Macintosh version[edit] Legal challenges[edit] Promotional power[edit]
Facebook Messenger is actually a monster hit Facebook’s controversial plan to split its messaging feature into a separate mobile app is working. Facebook Messenger has been the no. 1 most popular app in the US iPhone App Store most days since late July, according to App Annie, a service that tracks the app economy. It is currently the no. 1 iPhone app in eight countries, and in the top 10 apps in 126 countries. (Its popularity is similar on Android.) Facebook won’t say how many users Messenger has—its most recent publicly disclosed stat is from April, when Facebook said it had more than 200 million monthly active users globally. This despite a lingering whine from some Facebook users who are upset about having to keep two apps on their phones. Facebook’s success with Messenger is great news for the company for three reasons. First, it shows that Facebook can manufacture a second hit product. Second, it suggests that messaging apps might not topple Facebook after all.
The Founders Fund Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital investment firm. The firm’s five partners, Peter Thiel, Sean Parker, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, and Brian Singerman were founders or early investors in companies such as Facebook, PayPal, Napster, and Palantir Technologies. Founders Fund was formed in 2005 and launched four funds with more than $1 billion in aggregate capital under management by 2011. History[edit] Peter Thiel The firm was organized by Peter Thiel and Ken Howery in early 2005 and raised its first fund of $50 million from individual entrepreneurs and angel investors in January of that year. In 2010, the firm raised its third fund, with $250 million in committed capital,[3] and in 2011, a fourth fund with $625 million of committed capital was raised.[4][5] Partners[edit] As of the end of 2012, the firm was made up of the following partners: Investments[edit] Unlike many venture capital funds in Silicon Valley, Founders Fund does not limit itself to Web 2.0 companies.
Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker team for Yo, a new video chat project | Technology | Los Angeles Times Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, who worked together in 1990s during the early days of the music-sharing application Napster, have teamed up again and are building a new video chat project called Yo. A source close to Fanning and Parker told The Times that Parker has been devoting a lot of time to Yo. Parker was previously Facebook's president and was recently played by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network," a movie about the start of the world's most popular social media site. Fanning is also involved with Path, former Facebook executive Dave Morin's photo-centric social networking start-up. Parker, who is a managing partner at the Founders Fund venture capital firm, also works with Joe Green's Causes, a Facebook app that connects users with various causes and organizations so they can donate time or money. The website TechCrunch reported Friday that its co-editor and founder, Michael Arrington, is one of Yo's investors. Dave Morin rejects Google's $100-million offer for Path