Sunday, April 27, 2008

Terms of Use and privacy of face book

Term of use and eligibility
Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. This Site is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older, and users of the Site under 18 who are currently in high school or college. Any registration by, use of or access to the Site by anyone under 13, or by anyone who is under 18 and not in high school or college, is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of these Terms of Use. By using the Service or the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 13 or older and in high school or college, or else that you are 18 or older, and that you agree to and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
User conduct
You understand that except for advertising programs offered by us on the Site (e.g., Facebook Flyers, Facebook Marketplace), the Service and the Site are available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You represent, warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted through your account or otherwise posted, transmitted, or shared by you on or through the Service will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights; or contain libelous, defamatory or otherwise unlawful material.Harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of other users from the Service or the Site by electronic or other means for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited communications.Use the Service or the Site in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site. Use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the Site.Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any videos other than those of a personal nature that: (i) are of you or your friends, (ii) are taken by you or your friends, or (iii) are original art or animation created by you or your friends. Register for more than one User account, register for a User account on behalf of an individual other than yourself, or register for a User account on behalf of any group or entity. Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity. Upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make publicly available on the Site any private information of any third party, including, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers. Solicit personal information from anyone under 18 or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes. Upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment and intimidate or harass another person. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law; Use or attempt to use another's account, service or system without authorization from the Company, or create a false identity on the Service or the Site. Upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that, in the sole judgment of Company, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Site, or which may expose Company or its users to any harm or liability of any type.
Facebook Mobile Services
The Service includes certain services that are available via your mobile phone, including (i) the ability to upload content to Facebook via your mobile phone (Mobile Uploads), (ii) the ability to receive and reply to Facebook messages, to poke and receive pokes and to write wall posts using text messaging (Mobile Texts), (iii) the ability to browse Facebook from your mobile phone (Mobile Web), and (iv) the ability to access certain Facebook features through a mobile application you have downloaded and installed on your mobile phone (Mobile Client) (collectively the "Mobile Services"). We do not charge for these Mobile Services. However, your carrier's normal messaging, data and other rates and fees will still apply. You should check with your carrier to find out what plans are available and how much they cost. In addition, downloading, installing, or using certain Mobile Services may be prohibited or restricted by your carrier, and not all Mobile Services may work with all carriers or devices. Therefore, you should check with your carrier to find out if the Mobile Services are available for your mobile devices, and what restrictions, if any, may be applicable to your use of such Mobile Services. By using the Mobile Services, you agree that we may communicate with you regarding Facebook and other entities by SMS, MMS, text message or other electronic means to your mobile device and that certain information about your usage of the Mobile Services may be communicated to us. In the event you change or deactivate your mobile telephone number, you agree to promptly update your Facebook account information to ensure that your messages are not sent to the person that acquires your old number.
Use of Share Links by Online Content
PrSubject to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use, Third Party Sites that meet the requirements set forth below may place a Share Link (as described below), in the form approved by Company, on pages of their web sites to facilitate use of the Share Service. A Third Party Site that posts a Share Link on its web site is referred to herein as an "Online Content Provider" and shall abide and be subject to the applicable sections of these Terms of Use. A "Share Link" is a button and/or a text link appearing on an Online Content Provider's web page that, upon being clicked by a user, enables us to launch a sharing mechanism through which users can share with others or post to their own member profile, links and content from that page.In the event that the Share Link is a button that contains any icons or other graphic images, trademarks or other proprietary materials of the Company, Online Content Provider is granted permission to use such images, trademarks or other materials solely for the purpose of placing the Share Link on Online Content Provider's site and solely in the current form provided by the Company. In the event that the Share Link is a text link, it must include the word "Facebook" as part of the link. The rights granted in this paragraph may be revoked by Company at any time with or without cause in its sole discretion, and upon such termination, Online Content Provider agrees to immediately remove all Share Links from its siteoviders.
Platform
Facebook launched the Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007, providing a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features. A markup language was also introduced, called Facebook markup language, which was used primarily to customize the "look and feel" of applications that developers created. This enabled Facebook itself to launch several new applications that tightly integrated with the Facebook system. These include the Gifts application, which allows users to send virtual gifts to each other, the Marketplace, allowing users to post free classified ads, Events, which gives users a method of informing their friends about upcoming events, and Video, an application that allows users to share homemade videos with one another.
Applications that have been created include chess and Scrabble, which allow users to play games against their friends. The games played are asynchronous, meaning that when a user makes a move in a game, it is saved on the server, allowing the next move to be made at any time in the future rather than immediately after the previous move Within a few months of launching the Facebook Platform, issues arose regarding "application spam", which involves Facebook applications "spamming" users to request that the application be installed. Application spam has been considered one of the possible causes to the drop in visitors to Facebook starting from the beginning of 2008, when the website's growth had fallen from December 2007 to January 2008, its first drop since the website first launched.
Disclaimers
The site ,the service (including the mobile services, the share service and the market service), any platform applications and the site content are provided as-is and the company disclaims any and all representations and warranties, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose of non-infringement. The company cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the site and / or any platform applications. Company does not represent or warrant that software, content or materials on the site , the service or any platform application are accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free or that the site or service its servers, or any platform applications are free of viruses or other harmful components. Therefore, you should exercise caution in the use and downloading of any such software, content or materials and use industry-recognized software to detect and disinfect viruses. Without limiting the foregoing, you understand and agree that you download or otherwise obtain content, material, data or software (including any mobile client) from or through the service and any platform applications at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for your use thereof and any damages to your mobile device or computer system, loss of data or other harm of any kind that may result
Limitation on Liability
In no event will company or its directors, employees or agents be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including for any lost profits or lost data arising from your use of the site or the service, any platform applications or any of the site content or other materials on, accessed through or downloaded from the site, even if the company is aware or has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the company's liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to company for the service during the term of membership, but in no case will the company's liability to you exceed $1000. You acknowledge that if no fees are paid to company for the service, you shall be limited to injunctive relief only, unless otherwise permitted by law, and shall not be entitled to damages of any kind from company, regardless of the cause of action.
Termination
The Company may terminate your membership, delete your profile and any content or information that you have posted on the Site or through any Platform Application and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Service or the Site or any Platform Application (or any portion, aspect or feature of the Service or the Site or any Platform Application) for any reason, or no reason, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice, including if it believes that you are under 13, or under 18 and not in high school or college. When we are notified that a user has died, we will generally, but are not obligated to, keep the user's account active under a special memorialized status for a period of time determined by us to allow other users to post and view comments.
Privacy
There have been concerns expressed regarding the use of Face book as a means of surveillance and data mining. Theories have been written about the possible misuse of Face book, and privacy proponents have criticized the site's current privacy agreement. The policy states "We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services and other users of Face book, to supplement your profile." Face book has assured users that the next privacy policy will not include the clause about information collection, and has denied that any data mining is being done "for the CIA or any other group." However, the possibility of data mining by private individuals unaffiliated with Face book remains open, as evidenced by the fact that two MIT students were able to download over 70,000 Face book profiles from four schools (MIT, NYU, the University of Oklahoma, and Harvard) using an automated script, as part of a research project on Face book privacy published on December 14, 2005. A second clause that received criticism regards Face book’s right to sell users' data to private companies, stating "We may share your information with third parties, including responsible companies with which we have a relationship. Concerns have been raised regarding the difficulty of deleting user accounts on the website. Previously, Face book only allowed users to "deactivate" their accounts. This meant that their profile was no longer visible on the website, but any information that the user had entered into the website and on their profile still existed on the website's servers. This had concerned users who wished to permanently remove their account, citing reasons such as an overly embarrassing profile that may affect a future employer's decision in whether or not to hire someone based on what a user's online profile reveals. As of February 29, Face book has changed its account deletion policies, allowing users to contact Face book directly to request that a user account be permanently deleted from the website.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Book review of The Tipping Point

Gladwell, Malcolm (2001)`s The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference is one of Malcom Gladwell´s famous book. The title of this book is very attractive. The author trying to explains the importunacy of handling little things and how it will make successfully. This book is describing social and business activities in past years. The author used some kind adoption curve chats and it is denoting social and business (marketing) trends. The author explains in this book about adoption of curves and how it will make the tipping point. the mentioning some fundamental concepts, the little changes making big effect and this changes is not going smoothly but in dramatic moment and tipping point as a contagiousness process. The author mentioned somany important idea in this book. The world of tipping point is considered as a place of expected from unexpected because radical change has more possibility in here.
The author explains the major component’s of the tipping point in this book. He divided it in to three types. They are the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor and the Power of context. These are the core values of the tipping points. Each agent has some good power in tipping. Then he shows how connectors will influence in specific trends. The connectors are known as highly influential agent through in community. Gladwell describes about stickiness factor and stickiness factor is commonly known as a one part of communication.
The author Explains how sticky message affected media environment and how it will make as a irresistible. Epidemics have important role in society and when it will occur and it would be very sensitive part in every times. It also knows as power of context. The author didn’t try to make significant factors which have power change for tipping points and it is one of the main disadvantages of this book. This book is drawing city crimes New York city in the 1990`s and how occurred. The small changes in environment is affecting deeply in human behaviour. In early days connectors had good role in process of adoption. The information path from innovators to adopter is critical. The book is giving many ideas about tipping point and how it will affect markets trends. This book is very much helpful for marketing studies.

COMPARING PAPER MAIL AND ELECTRONIC MAIL

COMPARING PAPER MAIL AND ELECTRONIC MAIL

Describe the “network externalities” for paper mail and E-mail?

Paper mails is said to be a process of sending information from one individual or household to another, which can be inform of letter writing, While E-mail is the process of sending information between computers which is done electronically.
According to John .E.Lopalka and William.H.”the value of goods to the purchaser or consumer, depends on the purchaser expectation about the future size of the network. In addition to that, I can say that those who use paper mail an e-mail generates a network and thee networks exist in as much as there is increase in the value of the products
E-mail being a recent technology and also which is faster than paper mails tends to be more advantageous and may bring the entire network users to adopt the technology. I can say that since paper mail does not reach people on time as when compared with e-mail, it is now said that paper mails gave rise to e-mails as its new technology which now makes information easier and convenient for people.
Paper mail is not expensive when compared with e-mails E-mail has a disadvantage which hen compared with paper mail make people to rely on paper mail and the disadvantage is when there is power failure, this seems to seize communication.

Are paper mail and E-mail always interactive

To my best of knowledge, I can say that a paper mail could be interactive because it involves conveying information from person to person which I can say, brings good relationship which exist among each other, while E-mail is non-interactive because it is permanently private and tends to restrict people

How does mail and e-mail work in your home country? How many are reachable What about speed and safety?

Paper mail and E-mail which are sources of information work well in my country but are only interrupted by people who are in charge of providing the required and adequate services to the public. I can also say that paper mails are more reachable because it is cheap can be easily affordable to the masses. But E-mail I very expensive in my country due to the high rate at which people subscribe with as a result of incomplete circulation of network an non-existence of network in some cities. In my country,paper mail is most commonly used than e-mail because of safety but the speed rate is always slow. For example, it take about 6-8 working days for a registered mail within my country to be delivered. In situations like this,we prefer E-mails,since it can be deleivered at a faster rate. In addition to that,I can say that e-mail in my country will be more reliable if there are no network failures and good management.

What is required of the customer/user when using postal service and e-mails service?

The customer or user is required to pay for the services rendered to him or her. The person needs to pay for postage materials (envelope and stamps)
The customer has to make choice on what services that will be better for him or her rather than being tied or complaining.

Is E-mail a substitution for paper mail

E-mail would have been a substitution to paper mail because it makes information easier, faster and more convenient to people and in the world of business it has also connected the world in a globe and this I support Manual castell’s views “the new techno-economic system seem to induce uneven development simultaneously increasing wealth and poverty productively and social exclusion, with its effect being differently distributed in various areas of the world and I various social group”.

What will happen to paper mail if fewer people use it or if fewer letters are sent?

I believe that if few people use the paper mail. it will take it to be more efficient an effective in the area of service because, they will have a fewer number of people to attend to unlike when a large number of people are using it.

What happens to E-mail use if people getting E-mail do not answer?

In my own understanding, if people do not respond to their mails, the technology will be as good as not existing but according to Rogger Silverstone,Eric Hirch and David Morley(1992)in their own views “They are technologies and like every other technology, they ill continue to have impact on social an economic order of the household with the world beyond their front door an they do this or fail to do this in complex and often contradictory ways”

TECHNOLOGY AT HOME.

TECHNOLOGY AT HOME-CELL PHONE APPROPRIATION PHASE:

Cell phones have become a necessity for many people throughout the world. The ability to keep in touch with family, business associates. Cell phone is termed to be one of the fastest means of communication and has an important role to play in our daily activities.
I strongly believe that it is the perfect way to stay connected with others which also provides the household with sense of security. For instance, the household may need cell phone in event of emergency. To that effect, most households may buy cell phone because it allows help to reach quickly and safely.
In addition to that, modern cell phones are capable of internet access, sending and receiving photos and files, and some of the cell phones are equipped with GPS technology, allowing for use in most locations around the world and allowing the cell phone to be found or the user located in the event of loss or emergency. So after having experienced this, the household might decide to buy a cell phone since it can serve almost the purpose as laptop, and this situation, it doesn’t inconvenience the household to move around with laptop.
It was only in those days that the households were discouraged in the use of cell phones because the y were bulky, expensive, and some even needed a base unit that had to be transported along with phone. Also during that early times, the households were experiencing poor reception and the major problem is that the cell phone, could only be used in a certain location where the signal was particularly strong, but due to the advancement of cell technology, many households have not been finding it difficult to use cell phone. Due to the improvement and installation of satellites and wireless services, the household have now decided to be buying cell phone and its cost was now reduced so that an average household can afford to buy one.

OBJECTIFICATION:

In recent times, many households have developed interest in cell phones, some say that since they can buy cell phone that has camera, that it saves them money rather than buying a separate camera and phone, with this latest development of technology(invention),this have encouraged many households. Some household also say that they will only buy cell phones because of its functions which can help to reduce the issue of buying laptops because most of the cell phones can do the work of laptops. So for now, the cell phones are accessible because the producers made it to be cheap so as to enable the household to procure it,also,the cell phone can be accessed from any part of the world now and one can easily communicate at his/her own private time and at any place. The households have considered many factors with regards to comparing the services of cell phone to that of laptop, and I can say that since the use of cell phone is more encouraging in the sense that when ever one recharge his phone, he will able to make calls, and when there is no credit balance in the cell phone, the user of the cell phone can also receive calls, but in terms of laptops, the user must subscribe on monthly besis,and when he/she fails to subscribe, it will be disconnected. So the use of cell phone is more reliable and cheaper

INCORPORATION PHASE:

The cell phone which is a necessity for every household is needed for different purpose, for example, when people are very sick at home or when there is an accident, it is now the use of cell phone that will be used to communicate the first aid department/ambulance so as to give the person quick medical attention, so if the effective use of cell phone is not encouraged, it can help to save people’s life (emergency).
The modernization of cell phones has rendered services to people, the cell phone has many fuctions,depending on the particular product or model the person acquired, sometimes when the household wants to acquire a cell phone, he looks at the functions, depending on what he has in mind of using it for. Some may acquire it by going to the stores or by direct transaction with the manufacturer, and the cell phone manufacturers have produced a wide range of cell phones which sell for prices that are affordable

CONVERSATION PHASE:

This is a forum where there is exchange of information about the cell phone and this information could get to the household through advertisements from the TV or from papers, most often some cell phone manufacturing companies move about, trying to know households opinions with regards to there technologies, it is at the end of the conversation with the household that the manufacturers will know the areas to improve there technology.
There is another means of conversation which the cell phone communication manufacturers have created which is called the customer service department, and all contacts, conversation,
Enquiries and information are free, so this will also make it easy for the public and private about the new technologies. It is also during this period that the household makes enquiries about the cell phone accessories and the maintenance

CONCLUSION:

In my own point of view, I feel that the household’s expectation is on new technology and how the will benefit from it, also there have been a good relationship among the public and private household and also the manufacturers of cell phone have also in mind to work more effectively to see that the problems of the households are solved
A remarkable result was recorded that the households have never had in mind of discarding cell phones even when there seems to me economical problems.