Politics Lobbyists Cut Ties With Facebook Three of the four Washington, D.C. lobbying firms Facebook had hired abruptly terminated their contracts with the social networking giant. Citing conflicts of interest, Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock, the Glover Park Group and TeleMedia Policy Group have all walked away from contracts with Facebook, which upped its spending on lobbying efforts to… Dave Copeland View comments
mobile RSA/MWC: Mobility & Security Collide Mobile World Congress, the largest and most important mobile conference of the year, starts this week in Barcelona. Meanwhile, about 6000 miles away in San Francisco, the RSA Conference brings together cryptographers and security geeks. These conferences, while seemingly unrelated, have more in common in 2012 than ever before. Juniper created an… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Community Censorship for Safety's Sake The decision to censor material because it is dangerous or highly offensive is a difficult one, but it's not uncommon. Community managers are faced with situations like this often, and while the decision is subjective, it's never taken lightly. We weigh many things as we consider to remove content, but mostly we look to see if it violates… Robyn Tippins View comments
News As Developers Struggle, Apple Pushes Back Sandbox Deadline Again Apple has pushed back its deadline for developers to "sandbox" their applications. Last November, the original deadline was pushed back to March 1, 2012. Now Apple is giving developers through June 1st "to take advantage of new sandboxing entitlements available in OS X 10.7.3 and new APIs in Xcode 4.3." According to Manton Reece, Apple is also… Hack Joe Brockmeier View comments
Twitter The Most Tweetable Oscar Moments Viewers sent 2.05 million tweets about last night's Academy Awards presentation, but non-viewers may surprised to see that the most-tweeted moment had nothing to do with any of the films that had been nominated. Meanwhile, none of the three big awards - best film, best actor and best actress awards - managed to make the top three most tweeted… Social Dave Copeland View comments