Computing
Facebook reponds to photograph abuse claims
by paul on Jul.24, 2009, under Computing
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Facebook has responded to the accusations of abuse of personal photographs by advertisers stating that the offending advertisements have been removed from Facebook for violating their policies by misusing profile photos.
It is nice to see them respond to the public concern, but personally I feel safer now that I have just opted out of all such potential use. |
Facebook using (or abusing) your photographs?
by paul on Jul.24, 2009, under Computing
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It’s a little scary to discover that Facebook has stated providing user photographs to advertisers to include in their advertisements. From an advertisers point of view, this is a great way to capture eyeballs, but personally I don’t want to see my face on an advert for Hillsboro singles!
Thankfully, there is a way to turn it off – go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Privacy Settings’ -> ‘Newsfeed and Wall’, select the ‘Facebook Ads’ tab and choose ‘No one’ from the ‘Appearance in Facebook Ads’ pull down. Thanks to Brigett for the warning |
Cool augmented reality demo on CNN
by paul on Mar.14, 2009, under Computing
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CNN are running a segment today publicizing a GE advertizing campain for their Smart Grid which has got to be seen to be believed. If you have a camera on your PC, follow the instructions to print out the sample page and hold it anywhere in view of the camera. The flash application downloaded will create a three dimensional animation which bursts out of the page you are holding. This is really fun, and all done in Flash – wow! The model not only reacts to movements of the paper, you can even blow over the wind turbines (well actually into the microphone on your laptop) to make them spin.
It’s all done with the open source FlarToolkit – kudos to GE for not only getting the best out of open source, but also publicizing the fact. There is a demo on the website for those who want to play around with the ideas, although most of the documentation is in Japanese |
