January 2012
2 posts
November 2011
4 posts
Firefox 8 adds Twitter Search →
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Facebook Removes Suggest to Friends option →
What started as a response to spam appears to be a power move to sell adspace. I predict massive failure. People are already having a hard time directing traffic to their pages and will go to other platforms to gain audience.
Facebook’s Use of Cookies Raises German... →
infoneer-pulse:
Facebook may be tracking the Internet activity of users even after they cancel their accounts, the German data privacy watchdog said Wednesday.
After an investigation of the way cookies are installed after a user opens and then closes a Facebook account, the Hamburg Data Protection agency said on its Web site that it suspected the company was unlawfully tracking subscribers.
...
June 2011
2 posts
“@rhappe “Those organizations too focused on the short term, transactional ROI of...”
– via @rhappe The Social Organization: Communities - The New Strategic Imperative (via markbean)
May 2011
1 post
“Being an expert in social media is like being an expert at taking the bread out...”
– Why I Will Never, Ever Hire A “Social Media Expert”
via @patchchord (via hilker)
While I sympathize with the sentiment, I cannot entirely agree. Social relationships, marketing, and networking are highly complex, which is why people hire publiscists, combine that with the “new”...
April 2011
3 posts
“we’re seeing is a burst of activity at the start of each program. The way we...”
– As GetGlue Hits 1 Million Users, Is Checking In Becoming Part of TV Ritual? | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0. (via interestingsnippets)
“if Web 1.0 involved go search, get data and some limited interactivity, and if...”
– LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman (via un)
February 2011
3 posts
“Our recent research on how college students use the Web found that students...”
– Non-Profit Organization Websites: Increasing Donations and Volunteering (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
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January 2011
3 posts
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“The company still gets eighty percent of its profits from subscribers, many of...”
– AOL’s “Dirty Little Secret”: 60% of AOL’s Profits Come From Misinformed Customers (via slantback)
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
buzzandersen: I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase.
(via synmirror)
December 2010
1 post
How ReadWriteWeb Used Delicious →
sds:
“For the past several years, ReadWriteWeb has been using Delicious in a way that I think points to the potential the service truly had. Here’s what we did”:
We had a researcher grab URLs for companies and products that ReadWriteWeb had written about already and look them up in Delicious to see who had bookmarked those same links first.
Then we scrolled back through the bookmarking...
November 2010
1 post
“I’ve taken to Twitter like a duck to water. Its simplicity allows the user to...”
– William Gibson
The Vulture Transcript: Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More — Vulture
(via fred-wilson)
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
8 posts
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“Why does Twitter work better for news than Google Reader? Simple, Twitter gives...”
– Dave Winer: How to reboot RSS (via marco)
Do You Want To Broadcast Your Location?
un:
Facebook launched Facebook ”Places” ; Anyone can find out where you are when you are logged in. It gives the actual address & map location of where you are as you use Facebook.
TO REMOVE: Go to “Account”, “Account..Settings.. Notifications”, then scroll down to “Places” and “un-check” the two boxes. Make sure to SAVE changes.
Kind of shocking that a software company would would...
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Twitter auto shortens links →
(does not replace shortening services like bit.ly)
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Watchmattlehrer:
bijan:
Interview with @ev, @jack and @biz in Dec 2006 when Twitter was operating inside of Obvious Corp
i smiled during the part when Jack says that he now has 90 followers.
Almost four years later and it sounds like the number of features they’ve removed (separate friends list vs those you’re following, nudges, 20 less characters) is similar to the number they’ve added...
August 2010
3 posts
“You have two combinatorial filters in social communication. First, you’ve chosen...”
– Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, on his media consumption habits. (via theatlantic)
July 2010
1 post
“On Twitter, Cohen, who is 28, and Ross, who is 38, are among the most followed...”
– NY Times: “Digital Diplomacy” (via publicknowledge)
June 2010
2 posts
Starbucks Got One Million People Through Its Doors... →
“Right now there’s no big brand better embracing social media than Starbucks.”
May 2010
5 posts
“Twitters is a weapon that also needs to be used by the revolution.”
– Hugo Chavez
@chavezcandanga rockets to No. 1 on Twitter in Venezuela
Facebook’s settings that forced its more than 400 million users to choose to “opt out” of sharing private information with third-party Web sites instead of “opt in”
(via @grmeyer)
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook: mattmckeon.com
Facebook’s Former Chief Privacy Officer Does Not... →
(via tanya77:soupsoup)
In a public statement, Chris Kelly distanced himself from Facebook saying, “Facebook’s recent changes to its privacy policy and practices with regard to data sharing occurred after I left the company.”
While Facebook has yet to take any significant public stance suggesting that the company will back away from the new program, the company is under increasing pressure. As...
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
1 post
“The enlightenment idea of privacy is breaking apart under the strain of new...”
– Privacy is over. Here comes sociality. | Matter/Anti-Matter - CNET News (via wildcat2030)
(via pareidoliac)
(via notational)
January 2010
1 post
“The CEO of MySpace said this week it plans to make itself more relevant in...”
– Seth Meyers (via soupsoup)
October 2009
5 posts
The Attention Economy of Social Media →
infoneernet:
zehnuhr:
“We enjoy accumulating followers, seeing ourselves referred to, commented to, and otherwise being made visible. Doesn’t matter whether this involves acknowledgment, recognition, or validation; the point is that the medium does create a kind of social visibility. Call it, for simplicity’s sake, “being paid attention to.”
Well, attention doesn’t correlate with actually...
I'll pay you to be my friend.
creativevictuals:
Interesting approach…but paying for followers seems a bit desperate to me.
From the Cluetrain Manifesto: 95 Theses →
Markets are conversations.
Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
Conversations among human beings sound human. They are conducted in a human voice.
Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.
People recognize each other as such from the sound of this voice.
The...