Booting Up: RIP Facebook Democracy Edition

Apple has redrawn a portion of Maps to keep Australians from being led astray into the middle of nowhere. [The

lol. (Photo: Social Times)
lol. (Photo: Social Times)

Apple (AAPL) has redrawn a portion of Maps to keep Australians from being led astray into the middle of nowhere. [The Guardian]

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Despite the fact that 88 percent of respondents voted to keep the voting structure, Facebook (META) has decided to nix it anyway. Democracy on Facebook is dead, not that it ever really existed to begin with. [TechCrunch]

Here is a rock musical about the life and times of John Mcafee. [PandoDaily]

Children’s apps are still fooling parents about what kind of data they collect, including phone number and precise location. [New York Times]

Here’s Twitter’s 2012 week in review. Sadly it doesn’t mention how annoying all those parody accounts got. [Twitter Blog]

Booting Up: RIP Facebook Democracy Edition