Practical Facebook stalking with Open Source tools
This proposal has been accepted as a session.
Excerpt
Facebook are full of juicy information about your friends and strangers alike! Learn how to use some simple open source tools and techniques to learn more about them.
Description
Want to find out what your friends were doing on the weekend? Curious which parties you aren’t getting invited to? Wish you could contact that interesting person you met at a 3,000 person event, but you only got their first name? Want to know what your potential new employee really does in their spare time? Or do you just like data, and lots of it?
In this talk we’ll learn some simple tricks with open source tools that can help you access a wealth of information from the largest collection of social data ever created. We will also examine techniques and practices to help control what data you expose to the techniques presented.
Tags
Social Media, perl, stalking, privacy, facebook, use your powers for good
Speaker
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- Website: http://perltraining.com.au/
- Blog: http://pjf.id.au/blog/
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Biography
Paul Fenwick is the managing director of Perl Training Australia, and has been teaching computer science for over a decade. He is an internationally acclaimed presenter at conferences and user-groups worldwide, where he is well-known for his humour and off-beat topics. Paul is the author of Perl’s autodie pragma.
In his spare time, Paul’s interests include security, mycology, cycling, coffee, scuba diving, dressing like a pirate, and lexically scoped user pragmata.
Sessions
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- Title: Practical Facebook stalking with Open Source tools
- Track: Hacks
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 4:45 – 5:30pm
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Excerpt:
Facebook are full of juicy information about your friends and strangers alike! Learn how to use some simple open source tools and techniques to learn more about them.
- Speakers: Paul Fenwick