Have you ever wanted to take a Facebook Fast? And just delete your account? Well, I just finished a 30 day Facebook Fast from my Facebook Wall. I went into my privacy settings and shut down the wall. I always have to quantify the value of something to my life. And it seems to me [...]
As social media evolves, it appears that tribes are being created online. Small groups of influential people are congregating in various social media sites and helping each other create more influence. This appears to be a relatively new phenomenon. There are several sites out there that gauge our social influence. They take our actions on [...]
Facebook is about to evolve it’s look with some of the coolest software designs on the planet, as they’ve acquired Sofa, a Dutch design firm. When we started Sofa in 2006, we set out to make friendly, useful and enjoyable products that matter to people. Over the years, we built an awesome team of designers [...]
Today, Facebook launched a feature that will certainly help all social media managers managing large brands, the ability to tag the pages of great and companies in your photos. Now the Facebook, the brand/page photos, partly based off of their users privacy settings and will only appear on a brands tab, if that visibility is [...]
Late Friday night, Facebook announced a new round of privacy settings for third-party applications via the company’s developers blog. They no doubt hoped to minimize the repercussions from its latest privacy change by announcing it late on Friday evening, but there could be a larger repercussions from its new privacy move than Facebook initially anticipated. Essentially, Facebook [...]
Just hanging out on Twitter today when I saw this tweet from @adamostrow, Editor-in-Chief at Mashable, about the negative comments on facebook about their Justin Bieber contest. . . yep. You read right. Mashable is hosting a Justin Bieber contest on it’s Facebook Page, and from the comments – Mashable loyalists are none to pleased. [...]
Map 2.0. Paul Butler, an intern at Facebook, began pairing users locations and their friend connections and before he knew it, he had created a social cartograph of the world. When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that [...]
David Armano has written an interesting piece on social media trends of 2011 for the Haarrrrvard Business Journal which is worth taking a look at. He talks about how the mobile and tablet wars will be heating up. He discusses how Facebook is going to take the location-based world by storm. Armano also talks about [...]
“ Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you’re hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you’re doing.” – Amber Naslund, Social Media Today I came across this quote today and it really struck home . . . it’s about the QUALITY [...]
Lately my company has been asked to write a lot of proposals for social media management. I’m not talking about doing some occasional tweeting for people. I’m talking about setting them up from ground zero. I am also talking Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and sometimes setting up blogs. After everything is setup we start the management [...]
Social networking sites and the media have found synthesis these past few months, as movies and their twitter and Facebook fan pages have been areas where fans can get sneak previews of scenes, exclusive interviews and interact with their favorite actors. Now, the upcoming motion picture “Scott Pilgrim VS The World” has a cool offer [...]
@tkpleslie just announced via a RT of @PaulDunay that Facebook reversed it’s decision because of the HUGE outcry from Page owners and Page management companies. Wow. . . Read the latest on this story on insidefacebook.com Thanks to @tkpleslie of The Kaleidosope Partnership for this tweet. It led me to the article on allfacebook.com where [...]
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Google may have collected emails and other private information while using their “Street View” cars. If they traveled over WiFi networks while one of the cars was in range, they may have started to collect your data. Previously, the company denied that any data was ever intercepted. In a blog post published on Friday afternoon, Google [...]
Back in the day, AOL was notorious for being anti-user and making escape from their walled garden near impossible. Now, there is a new horrible walled garden. And escape is not much easier.
While catching up on some reading on one of my favorite eco friendly blogs, I came across this post by Lloyd Alter as well as this one by Stuart Elliot of the New York Times and could not believe that a company would actually claim to own the daisy. You heard me. the daisy. My [...]
I used to think that social networking sites (SNS) were only for the “socially active.” But nowadays, they’re everywhere. You used to only be able to get SNS on your laptop or PC, but now SNS has spread to Androids, iPhones, iPads and the like. With this degree of spread, it seems as if anyone [...]
This month was very large for Facebook. Extra awesome saucemly, large. It gets more traffic than Google. BigCommerce released their bad-ass social shopping application, Social Shop, via Facebook. And Facebook wants to release a like button and be an aggregate of as much content as it can. So much to talk about! Facebook Overtakes Google [...]
Oh no! This poor hair metal band’s mom got on facebook and ruined their lives. Mom’s stay off the ‘Book! Music and lyrics by Blood of TigerCat. Visit http://backoftheclass.net for more. Follow them: http://twitter.com/backoftheclass (for the comedy) and http://twitter.com/bloodoftigercat (for the rock). LYRICS: You used to be a special place for all my college [...]
For those of you who don’t follow the teen queen’s every footstep, Miley Cyrus gave an interview to Movieline.com the other day saying she’s really glad she deleted her Twitter account and that the Internet is “kinda lame.” She also tells “kids” to stay away from the Internet because it’s dangerous. Really Ms. Miley? Really? [...]
Facebook, the ever wanna-be, “me-too” company, has decided that they too would like to be like Foursquare… decides to add location updating.
So being the semi-avid academic that I am, I don’t b.s. about bookmarking websites that provide a generous wealth of pop culture pulp for my pontificating pleasure. That being said, I can’t quite convey how much Pew Research Center tickles my pickle. It’s a site where the statistics are relevant and the digest is edible. [...]
February marks six years of poking, picture posting, stalking and miscellaneous relationship awkwardness on TheFacebook.com (as it was known then). Happy Birthday! Now I don’t know if you know this, but Facebook only used to be for kids in college. And the earliest adopters were either ivy leaguers or students at large big 12-ish universities.
Internet stalking is so easy to do these days. I have to admit, I truly enjoy researching people and finding out pieces of information before I meet them face to face. I feel that I get to understand them a little better ahead of time and then I can use that information while we meet. [...]
Last week, Compete.com announced that their data showed Facebook had beaten Yahoo! in number of unique visitors in January 2010. Why is this such a big deal? What I want to know is: Why hasn’t Facebook had more visitors than Yahoo! already? And the numbers are really close too! This is Compete’s graph: Now how [...]
Actress Andrea Fay Friedman who has portrayed numerous characters with Down Syndrome (and herself has Down Syndrome) weighs in on Sarah Palin’s alleged outrage over the word “retard”.
Facebook users reached a new low today, sympathizing and glorifying the actions of a disturbed man. If you are a fan of Joe Stack or what he did, you are a fan of terrorism. There is no way around it.
BusinessWeek examines how Facebook is transforming the mobile phone, and poses the question, “what if Facebook made their own smartphone?”
Gawker Compromise Sparks Action- Protect Your Passwords and Protect Your Privacy
…. is a very good reason to create a “garbage” email account and only use it with your non-monetary transaction sites. For monetary transaction sites it’s up to you if you want connect them with a main real email account. BUT do NOT use the same password no matter what. So…when Gawker said that they had been hacked I just ….
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