The more I listen to the conversations about the Facebook privacy and Open Graph changes, the more I wonder if there is an opportunity for another service to come along and possibly steal a share of Facebook’s pie. Strike that. I’m not wondering at all…there is an opportunity. We’ve all logged into Facebook and been [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Linking Customer Loyalty With Social Networking by Stephanie Clifford, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/business/media/29adco.html A Troubling Precedent: NJ Court Says Bloggers Are Not Journalists The American Culture http://stkarnick.com/culture/2010/04/28/a-troubling-precedent-nj-court-says-bloggers-are-not-journalists/ N.J. student protests showcase Facebook’s role in mobilizing social movements By Kelly Heyboer, The Star-Ledger http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/facebook_student_protest_mobilize.html Senator calls on [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week (slightly late edition). Facebook’s Open Graph Personalizes the Web by Samuel Axon, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/facebook-open-graph/ SCARY: Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers by Nicholas Carlson, Business Insider/SAI http://www.businessinsider.com/scary-blippy-publishes-user-credit-card-numbers-2010-4 Nielsen: Facebook’s Ads Work Pretty Well by Jack Neff, Advertising Age http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=143381 Boxee, Roku Announcing Deals for Streaming [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Finding a Kidney Donor on Facebook by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/08/finding-a-kidney-donor-on-facebook/ Yahoo Considers Buying Foursquare For ~$100 Million by Nicholas Carlson, Silicon Alley Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-considers-buying-foursquare-for-100-million-2010-4 FarmVille user runs up £900 debt by Jill Insley, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/apr/07/farmville-user-debt-facebook On foursquare, cheating, and claiming mayorships from your [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Business Schools Respond to Demand for Use of Social Media By Fiona Mackay, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedmba.html Rita’s Italian Ice Uses Free Treats, Peeps, to Grow Facebook Page By Sara Inés Calderón, Inside Facebook http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/03/30/ritas-italian-ice-uses-free-treats-peeps-to-grow-facebook-page/ Travelocity Gnome Moonlights On Chatroulette by Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/03/31/travelocity-gnome-chatroulette/ [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Twitter mobilizes days-long search for missing Brooklyn woman by Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100323/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1307 Facebook To Release A “Like” Button For the Whole Darn Internet by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/25/facebook-to-release-a-like-button-for-the-whole-darn-internet/ Apple Adds Gifting Feature for iPhone Apps by Brian X. Chen, Wired http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/iphone-app-gifting/ Facebook Insights To Take [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. A little NY Times heavy this week. Telling Friends Where You Are (or Not) by Jenna Wortham, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/technology/15locate.html Nestle mess shows sticky side of Facebook pages by Caroline McCarthy, cnet http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20000805-36.html How Privacy Vanishes Online by Steve Lohr, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/technology/17privacy.html Google and [...]
Each time I sign up for a new online service I see the same trend popping up…auto posting to your twitter and Facebook streams/feeds. I choose not to enable these options just about 100% of the time. Why? I don’t need to pollute my “main” feeds with updates from every single service I use. I [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Restaurant Owner Increases Sales by 110% with Foursquare Swarm Badge Party by Pamela Seiple, HubSpot Blog http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5697/Restaurant-Owner-Increases-Sales-by-110-with-Foursquare-Swarm-Badge-Party.aspx Austin Or Bust: 25 Entrepreneurs, Five Ideas And One Bus by Tomio Geron, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/03/09/austin-or-tech-bust-25-entrepreneurs-five-ideas-and-one-bus/ Why do we ignore ‘real-time’ results from Google search? by Charles Arthur, The [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Google wins patent for location-based advertising by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/01/google-location-ads/ Investors Bet on Price of Facebook IPO by Jessica E. Vascellaro, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/04/investors-bet-on-price-of-facebook-ipo/ Nokia Ovi Store now up to 1.5m downloads a day Music Ally http://musically.com/blog/2010/03/03/nokia-ovi-store-now-up-to-1-5m-downloads-a-day/ Cashmore: Why I’m banking on Facebook by Pete [...]
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