The app integrated with social networks like Facebook to aggregate data on locations recommended by friends, and it included results personalized for an individual's "taste and trust."
Using the app, you could look up any place, category or keyword, then be presented with personalized results, as well as see what your friends had said about the places around you. The app would also highlight which of your friends were experts in a given area, like coffee or shopping or sushi, for example -- and you could tag your friends as experts in order to influence the recommendations. In addition, you could use Spotsetter to discover new places, by browsing the map to see where your friends have been and what they've shared.Spotsetter announced plans to shut down its app six days ago, but did not give a reason for the removal. Its co-founders, Stephen Tse and Johnny Lee are now listed as Apple employees on LinkedIn, however.
The end result was a social search engine built on top of a mapping interface.
With fondest emotions, I'm announcing that we are closing down Spotsetter app. We still have big dreams for personalized search for places and look forward to seeing great progress in this area. Thank you everyone for your support over the past years!According to TechCrunch, Apple may be planning to use Spotsetter's technology, which layered social data on a maps interface, to bolster its Maps app with location recommendations. The deal, for an unspecified amount, was said to focus mainly on the technology and the talent of Spotsetter's founders.
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The most critical of the new OpenSSL vulnerabilities is known as an “Injection Vulnerability”. If exploited, this flaw could result in a “man-in-the-middle attack”. Essentially, this means someone positioned on the network between your computer and a server could eavesdrop or alter encrypted data traffic. In theory, sensitive information such as email addresses, passwords, and credit card information could be at risk.
So does this impact LastPass?
In regards to LastPass, please note:
- Your data stored in LastPass is not affected by this bug
- Your master password is never shared with LastPass
- Your vault is encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption before being sent to LastPass over SSL
- Our servers' SSL libraries have been updated with the latest fixes
- You can use LastPass' tool to also identify affected sites: https://lastpass.com/opensslccs/
What should I do?
Although the threat is small, if you have used open or untrusted WiFi, we recommend updating the passwords for any online accounts you may have accessed at that time. LastPass will help you update the password to a new, generated one.
We recommend that users continue to exercise caution on untrusted networks, most notably on public WiFi, and remove WiFi networks from their devices that they no longer need or trust. Most other websites do not encrypt data before transmission like LastPass, and so there may be a risk of exposure to the OpenSSL flaws on other websites over public WiFi.
We will continue to update our community of any developments in the situation.
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When development started in 1960, many people thought Project Xanadu would change the world. Then one delay led to another and another and another. But after 54 years in development the world's most delayed software went live.
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