We don’t normally track executive movements here at Lifehacker, but this is a significant one in the ongoing melding of iiNet and Internode following last year’s buyout: Internode founder Simon Hackett will leave his day-to-day role at the company in August, and will join the iiNet board at the same time.
Mass text invites end in chaos. Group emails are a pain in the arse and easy to forget. The Facebook Event is the cleanest, fastest way to corral everyone you want to be around in one central place, making directions, timing, and who’s bringing the potato salad a matter of clicks. Odds are, a lot (if not all) of the people you want at your backyard rager are on Facebook — so let’s do this thing without pissing anyone off.
Rural Australia loves the NBN (but might not want towers), the Coalition hates the NBN (but might secretly love it) and NBN Co is going to update some Tasmanian infrastructure — but only if they can find it on inaccurate maps. All this and more in this week’s roundup of NBN news.
We have our opinions on Kickstarter. But central to whatever Kickstarter claims to be is its ability to teach business neophytes the ropes. As Dan Misener shows, though, that’s undermined by suppressing the visibility of failed projects.
Facebook has lost yet another porn-related law suit. Really, you’d think they were actually at risk of folding, they way they’ve been going out after parody-named porn sites demanding that they shut it down.
It goes without saying that Facebook has the responsibility to protect a huge number of users — 900 million to be exact. But how, exactly, does it go about doing that? The Verge has an interesting look at the behind-the-scenes hidden security measures that are routine for the social network, but that we don’t often think about. It seems to be looking out for the average user, though what Facebook is doing with your data itself is a completely different story.
Poor little webOS, it just can’t catch a break. Now a large chunk of HP’s webOS team is leaving the company and moving on to Google.
Hacking is a tiring occupation: all that time at a keyboard, staring at a screen, makes for a tired cyber criminal. Now, analysis of the frequency of malicious emails suggests that, over the last year, hackers have been taking more and more time off at weekends. Slackers.
