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ONLINE REPUTATION: According to eBay - 0 views

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    blog post on reputation
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Most of us Google ourselves, survey finds - CNN.com - 0 views

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    Survey shows that majority of adult internet users in the US Google themselves. Just shows that more people are becoming aware of how it may be difficult to detach their online selves from their offline lives.
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ONLINE REPUTATION: Instant Celebrities - 0 views

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    Blog post on reputation
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Facebook Mania: Privacy Changes for Nearly 500 Million - TIME - 0 views

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    Perfect for this week's topic on privacy.
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ONLINE REPUTATION: Yelp me! - 0 views

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    Blog post on reputation
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ONLINE REPUTATION: Everyone's Favorite Pastime - 2 views

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    Blog post for reputation
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Complaints Against Yelp's "Extortion" Practices Grow Louder - 0 views

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    Yelp is a website that allows users to rate, review and talk about businesses - regardless if the feedback is good or bad. Many business owners, specially small-scale operators, value the reviews they receive on this site since it's a way of building their reputation for free. Recently, Yelp has been slapped with a number of lawsuits from different business owners. They claim that when they declined to purchase advertising in the website, their ratings suddenly went down.  
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The Talented Mr. Wheeler: Meet the Kid Who Faked His Way Into Harvard - 0 views

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    Adam Wheeler was able to get into Harvard with fake documents and lying about his credentials. It is said that one of the possible reasons for the succes of his deception is not having a Facebook profile. Just proves that a non-existent online profile can do wonders to your real life reputation.  
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Tries to Unmask Twitter Critics | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Twitter users have been issued subpoenas from Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett due to the critical comments they've made about the politician. It's interesting how much anonymous comments can make an impact on a public figure's reputation that it forces him to take legal action.  
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The Associated Press: Thailand censors more websites as protests persist - 0 views

  • Thailand is getting increasingly like China when it comes to Internet censorship," said Poomjit Sirawongprasert, president of the Thai Hosting Service Providers Club.
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    The Thai government is increasing censorship over the Internet, with a special focus on political websites due to the uprising in the country.  What is interesting is that this has been going on for a few years, but it has not received that much media attention compared to Internet censorship in China. It is possible that the websites being banned are not that widely accessed by Thai people in the first place.
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Teach a Man to Phish… - Krebs on Security - 0 views

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    A phisher from Nigeria was discovered to be responsible for creating 1,100 phishing sites over 15 months. By studying the guy's online activity, it was obvious that he treated it like a 9-5 job. It is estimated that he earns $4 million a year with this scam!
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Govt to develop own operating system - Infrastucture - Enterprise IT - Tech - The Times... - 0 views

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    India's government is planning to develop its own OS due to security reasons. They do not want to rely on foreign operating systems as they believe this makes them more susceptible to cyber attacks. 
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University to Provide Online Reputation Management to Graduates - 0 views

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    A university in the U.S. has provided an online reputation management program for all its graduating seniors. Since majority of companies are performing background checks on job applicants, this will allow students to clean up their Facebook and Twitter profiles. This step made by the university seems very beneficial, since for majority of the younger generation who don't know how it is not to have the Internet, the separation between online and real-life identities is a fine line. 
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It's More Than Perez Hilton: Our So-Called Second Lives - 3 views

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    First post for blog on Reputation
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BBC News - Teachers bullied by 'hate sites' - 0 views

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    Teachers are very much aware and very much worried on how social networking sites, particularly Facebook, are being used by students to "bully" and spread false allegations about them. Not only professional reputations are at stake in acts like these, but hate sites will surely affect the personal lives of teachers as well.  
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Reputation Is Dead: It's Time To Overlook Our Indiscretions - 0 views

  • but the spread of quick fire opinions is now moving at the speed of light and forever findable on the Internet. We’re still wired to think of gossip as something that spreads quietly behind the scenes, and relatively slowly. But we’re already in a world where it’s all completely public, there are few repercussions to the person spreading it, and it is easily searchable.
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    Attacking a person's reputation via the Internet has become a very quick and easy process through sites like Facebook and Twitter. However, the author argues (and hopes) that maybe in time, since bashing of a person's online reputation is evolving into common behavior, it wont really matter anymore - that incriminating photos on Facebook wont have that much of an impact in a few years.
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Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation - 0 views

  • Unvarnished argues that there are lots of tools to actively manage your reputation (like updates, ability to comment and request new reviews)  but it omits the most important tool of all: the ability to strike down really damaging posts.
  • This could be the place to anonymously settle vendettas: co-worker swipes a promotion, go to Unvarnished, boss dishes out a small bonus, go to Unvarnished, the vice president makes an ambiguous pass at your girlfriend, go to Unvarnished…you get the idea.
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    Unvarnished (www.getunvarnished.com) is a recently launched social networking site wherein anyone can create an online profile for a professional (think LinkedIn), and any user can post reviews (mostly negative) about you, anonymously. The website's founder says that Unvarnished gives an individual the opportunity to disprove any negative claims about him/her. However, I agree with the author of the article in believing that the site actually encourages and empowers users to have a backstabbing spree. It will be interesting to see in the next coming months if Unvarnished actually takes off.
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Your past can come to light through a Google search - Gregg Sapp - The Olympian - Olymp... - 0 views

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    Self-googling will not sound as vain or egotistic as it may seem if it means that an individual can be aware of what information the internet holds about him or her. To me, it's a form of "damage control". 
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Nestle fails at social media | Internet news | TechEye - All the technology news unfit ... - 0 views

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    Engaging in social media backfires for Nestle. Due to the Greenpeace protest against the company with regards to how the company uses palm oil in its products, a number of people posted their distaste on Nestle's Facebook page. Unfortunately for the company, the representative in charge of replying to comments was far from being amiable, or even courteous. Sample exchange of comments: Nestle: "You have freedom of speech and expression. Here, there are some rules we set. As in almost any other forum. It's to keep things clear." Paul Griffin: "Your page, your rules, true, and you just lost a customer, won the battle and lost the war! Happy?" Nestle: "Oh please...it's like we're censoring everything to allow positive comments." Social media has significant benefits for companies and how they market the products to consumers. However, if used wrongly, as with this case, massive PR clean-up is inevitable.
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Raunchy teachers on Facebook | National News | Breaking National News in Australia | Ip... - 0 views

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    High school  teachers in Queensland are questioned because of their profile pictures on Facebook. The fact that they may be really outstanding educators is now overlooked due to the mistake of posting "inappropriate" photos on a very public social networking site. Another example of how Facebook can actually ruin lives. 
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