Don’t Get Robbed: Burglars Use Facebook to Pick Targets

People said it would happen with Foursquare, it may have already happened with Twitter, and now the trend has continued on Facebook: Burglars in Nashua, New Hampshire looked at updates from Facebook to figure out when one target wasn’t at home. These particular burglars performed more than 50 burglaries but they didn’t use Facebook Places, [...]

Hunch – Search Takes a Social Turn

Now, even on the Internet, it is not what you know but who you know. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13search.html?_r=5&partner=rss&emc=rss/ Chris Dixon, left, and Matt Gattis of Hunch, a start-up in New York that tries to predict things its users might like. It uses data on topics and articles from users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts After a decade when [...]