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ATOMFacebook taking privacy seriously for a change
Posted 1 day ago by Peter Twiggs
16/05/2008
After all the hype surrounding Google Friend Connect and the implications of a much more integrated social media space, Facebook have pretty much thrown it straight back at Google by blocking Friend Connect from the API. “Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology. We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service.” There is more detail on the Facebook developer blog; I for one am...
Get Ready Its Time to Stumble
Posted 2 days ago by Mark Cunnah
14/05/2008
I'm at home, I'm bored. That means just one thing in my eyes - it's time to stumble. Stumbleupon.com is pretty much what it says on the tin. You download a tool bar into your browser. You pick your interests - anything from online games to animal rights. Then once this is done you will spy 3 buttons in your browser. The first is the Stumble Button. When pressed this will take you to a random page in your chosen catorgories. Next is the thumbs up button. If you stumble on a page you like you press the button and it gets a...
Can a small business benefit from social software?
Posted 8 days ago by Jon Mell
09/05/2008
One of my favourite quotes about the need for social software was from someone at Lotusphere who was talking about the integration of Bank of New York and Mellon Financial in the States. He stated that the problem was he had 17,000 people over here and 23,000 people over there who didn't know each other and were supposed to drive synergies from the merger. How was this going to happen?Whilst a great example, I've found that when I talk about this to small and medium companies in the UK, the response tends to be that social software is only useful...
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