Today I found a game/app in my Facebook feed called Vrais ou faux seins ? The application has blatantly exposed breasts. I can’t speak French so I can’t tell what it is about, but the pictures sure seem to tell a pretty compelling story. I’m sure that the good people at Facebook will end up finding the application and removing it soon enough. But it brings up, again, the changes that the increasing globalization that the Internet has brought about. And in my standard Facebook feed… It’s not that I care. I don’t. It’s more just watching culture classes as they continue to emerge. Much like Google’s Schmidt leveraging…
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Get Your Facebook Names
http://www.facebook.com/krypted – Facebook, like other social networks before them now allow you to sign up to have a name, or handle, that will follow you and allow you to quickly find friends provided you know their unique name, etc. It seems to be a bit of a scramble and names are filling up fast, so I wouldn’t wait for long. It’s easy to do, log into your Facebook account and there’s a box staring right at you asking if you want to go ahead and set it up! PS – Thanks to Kevin for reminding me when I got off my flight!
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Find Your Handle
Nothing kills me more than going to a new site and finding the username I like to use isn’t available any more. There are a number of sites out there that require you to create a username. Some day many may centralize around a unified approach such as OpenID, but until then how can you sear around all the various popular sites to find which ones still have the handle you like to use? Check out usernamecheck.com!
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Disable Facebook Chat
I pretty much leave my computer on and open all the time. And more than likely there’s about 20 websites open in a browser (no, I’m not going to get into any arguments about what browser I should be using so suffice it to say “a browser”), spread across a number of windows, tabs, etc. Occasionally I get a pop-up from someone wanting to chat with me through Facebook, whether I’m sitting at my computer or not. Since there have been a few times when that happened and I wasn’t around, I felt like I was being somewhat rude. So, I went ahead and went looking for a way to…
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Twit netiquette
For a little while now my site has been automatically updating other sites when new articles are published. The update was pretty much just a generic URL. Then someone asked me to put a little more “meat in my tweet.†Great point. It’s a bit rude to pollute the various social networks of the world with useless information. Ergo, I’ve gone ahead and included the title of my posts in my actual feeds. Additionally, I’ve thrown a nice new background on the site to make it a bit less stark. Hope you enjoy. Oh, and just for the record, I love the term “meat in my tweet!” I think it’s hilarious… 😉
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The Top Social Networks
It seems like I get an invitation to join a different social network every day. Makes me wonder how much traffic these sites get and what the point really is. Well, let’s break it down real quick. Statistics first, the ranking by market share for social networks is as follows: MySpace -39.37% Facebook – 17.54% YouTube – 10.39% Tagged – 1.55% Yahoo Answers – 1.36% MyYearBook – 1.09% Yahoo Groups – .96% Meebo – .64% Yahoo Member Directory – .53% Bebo – .49% You might notice a few that you would expect to see in the above list, such as LinkedIn, Classmates.com or others. That would be because forums are…
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Facebook: Groups
So I’ve created a bunch of groups on FaceBook. Groups for 318, Mac OS X Server, Mac OS X, etc. Now what…
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Hacking Facebook Apps
The API that Facebook has is awesome. Not all the application developers are though. Be careful what data from your profile you let an app get ahold of.
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Plaxo Pulse
Now on Plaxo Pulse (how many more of these will there be)
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The Death of MySpace
It’s old, slow and really poorly designed (customizing profiles is actually a bug). Facebook on the other hand is fairly lightweight, newer, sleeker and has a scripting interface. MySpace is out, Facebook is in.