In the process of producing their now-canceled documentary on Stanley Kubrick’s landmark film, Douglas Trumbull and David Larson have uncovered 17 minutes that Kubrick cut from 2001 just after release—in perfect condition.
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500 million and rising also makes it clear to anyone not paying attention that Facebook is no fad and that it is a cultural force shaping our collective culture. Even if you have no desire to ever set up a profile, you can’t ignore it and you are now oddly defined in the negative and left out of the zeitgeist.
A service of that size won’t disappear anytime soon, even if Facebook has hit its plateau in the U.S. But net users are fickle and the web’s short history includes dozens of sites that were once high-flying that have either since died (Geocities), lost their luster (Yahoo) or faded into irrelevance (Friendster).
So how could Facebook lose its place at the center of the web?
A great post from Electricpig’s Mic Wright. Does Facebook know a whole lot more that we think? Read on.
Facebook had a master password that allowed employees to access any account and still records far more information about how you use the site than you’d assume, according to a new interview with a Facebook insider.
American blog, The Rumpus, has published an interview with someone it claims is a current Facebook employee. The biggest revelations: there was once a master password that would access any profile and Facebook records which profiles you visit most (essentially a stalking count) amongst many other bits of data.
The alleged employee says a master password once allowed Facebook employees to access any account. The password was apparently a variation on ‘Chuck Norris’ and was used for engineering purposes but other employees were aware of it. Most interestingly, the interviewee claims that misuse of the password led to two Facebook employees being fired.
Though the master password is apparently no longer in use, the interviewee claims that employees can simply query Facebook’s back-end database to look at private information. They also claim that there is a specilaised tool to access specific profiles but that Facebook requires a reason to use it and employees can be sacked for misusing it.
The interview also claims the social network records every element of your activity on the site. That goes beyond messages you write and receive to how many times you click on a particular profile, which photos you view, who has tagged you most in photos and notes. The information is apparently behind a recent change that now shows your best friends first in a search rather than simply an alphabetical list.
Facebook gave a statement to Techcrunch pouring scorn on the interview: “This piece contains the kind of inaccuracies and misinterpretations you would expect from something sourced ‘anonymously’ and we’ll leave it at that.”
However, it’s clear that Facebook is able to access profile information when it needs to, for instance to help police with their investigations, so the existence of a master password or tool for accessing private information is not so far fetched.
Does this interview suggest that one employee has simply misinterpreted Mark Zuckerberg’s call for a less private, more open world? We suspect he didn’t mean spilling all of Facebook’s secrets, whatever he’s done with his own profile.
Out now | £free | Facebook (via The Rumpus/Techcrunch)
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Andrea Wong steals a show? Noooo. I can’t believe it! Fast Company’s Danielle Sacks gives us the scoop: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ly85j5
Emma Watson, 19, experienced what we often refer to as a Wardrobe Oops! during a premiere showing of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in London a few days ago. Watson has starred in the recurring role of Hermione Granger in the successful film series since age nine.
Watson graced the red carpet in a split front flowing gown and parasol on July 7. The event was moving along as planned until Watson greeted one fan at the same time the front of her dress parted to reveal her underwear.
David Letterman had some fun at Emma’s expense, revealing photos on his late night talk show while encouraging her to discuss the matter. She remarked, “At least I was wearing underwear.” She then put her face in her hands and muttered, “I’m still learning this stuff.”
View David Letterman video (7 minute mark on slider) below.
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