lightbluetouchpaper.org - 5/21/2009
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One of the defining features of Web 2.0 is user-uploaded content, specifically photos. I believe that photo-sharing has quietly been the killer application which has driven the mass adoption of social networks. Facebook alone hosts over 40 billion photos, over 200 per user, and receives over 25 ...
facebook.com - 5/18/2009
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facebook.com —
Beautiful women. Crazy art. Awesome cars. Check out
these and lots more. Share your own great photos,...
on your profile and with your friends! Facebook is providing links to these applications as a courtesy, and makes no representations regarding the ...
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Photos I Like!
allfacebook.com - 5/15/2009
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allfacebook.com —
There’s well over 10 billion photos on Facebook,
making it the largest photo-sharing site on the web....
Now that’s a lot of people tagging each other. Face.com’s Facebook app, called Photo Finder, has taken on the task of tagging ...
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Face.com Scans 13 Million Facebook Photos Every Day
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Are You Sure Those Photos Have Really Been Deleted?
Mashable! —
... When you delete a photo from a site such as Facebook, Bebo or MySpace, is it really deleted immediately, or even at all? According to some interesting research conducted by Light Blue Touchpaper, many sites do not remove photos even 30 days after the user has deleted them. ...
Facebook (and Others) May Keep Your Deleted Photos
Today @ PC World —
[image] Remember that time you slathered yourself with body glitter and went running through the streets of your hometown? Well, despite deleting those pictures already, they may still exist on Facebook or MySpace's servers and be readily accessible for all who want to scope them out that. A study conducted by the University of Cambridge discovered that social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace do not immediately remove from its servers photos that have been deleted by users . The study audited 16 different social networking sites by uploading photos, noting their ...
Facebook and others may keep your deleted photos
Macworld —
... . Remember that time you slathered yourself with body glitter and went running through the streets of your hometown? Well, despite deleting those pictures already, they may still exist on Facebook or MySpace’s servers and be readily accessible for all who want to scope them out that. A study conducted by the University of Cambridge discovered that social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace do not immediately remove from its servers photos that have been deleted by users . The study audited 16 different social networking sites by uploading photos, noting their URLs, ...
Social networks keep your deleted photos
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... The study, which is detailed here, found that many networks failed to fully delete images: they just hide them away from the user, which makes it appear that the photo had been removed from the system. ...
Social networking butterfly
GMSV —
... before that. *Real-world party animals beware. Cambridge University researchers have found that deleted photos are not immediately removed from 16 social networking sites they studied. In some cases, the researchers were able to access the photos as many as 30 days later, including on Facebook, which ...
Are Your Social Network Photos Really Being Deleted?
WebProNews Feed —
... This is not always the case however. The University of Cambridge has discovered that at least seven popular sites might still have those photos live for as many as thirty days. These seven sites are: ...
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