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Category Archives: Social Media
Facebook to Launch New Creepy Features Wednesday
Liz Gannes at All Things D: Facebook will on Wednesday launch the Open Graph applications it first debuted last September, sources told AllThingsD. These are the apps, made by outside developers, that “frictionlessly” and continuously share users’ actions back to Facebook after a user has given permission once. The new apps behave similarly to the [...]
Long Live Birdfeed
I’m totally behind this. As much as I like Tweetbot, Birdfeed was probably the best Twitter app I ever used on an iPhone.
Facebook to Help Prevent Suicides
Brooke Donald for the AP: A program launching Tuesday enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline through Facebook’s “chat” messaging system. If a friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s page, he can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next to the comment. Facebook then [...]
My Hasty Review of the new Twitter iPhone app
Here are some thoughts after playing with Twitter 4.0 for iPhone: The new look is very clean. The tweets are on little sheets that sit above a textured background. I like this, as the old app felt really cluttered to me. The swipe feature from Tweetie 2.0 is gone. In fact, this new app feels [...]
FTC Versus Facebook
The Federal Trade Commission: The social networking service Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public. [...] The proposed settlement bars Facebook from making any further deceptive privacy [...]
‘Can you sign up for Spotify without Facebook?’
No. via The Brooks Review
Hate Facebook?
I just came across this story on Macworld. First of all, I understand that Macworld has to post stories from its sister publications. I’m not a fan of cross-posting, especially when its off-topic, but I get it. What I don’t get is the story itself. If you don’t like the new Facebook, close your damn [...]
More on ‘Connected Disconnect’
Shadoe Huard, in his reply to my piece from the other day: Social standards and norms are constantly evolving and the inclusion of technology is a part of this evolution. Part of the shock may be how social interactions are shifting from physical space to the more abstract and formless space of the web.
Addiction
See, I told you we have a problem.
