No outrageous profits after seven years and half a billion users. VISIT LINK: Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 (tags: business economics facebook opinion socialnetworking social startup ipo value …)
If you know the name of the conversation, you can join it by typing it into the conversation name box; if you don't know the name, you can't join. VISIT LINK: BackNoise – create backchannel conversations on the fly, anywhere and anytime (tags: ajax blogs browser chat chatroom collaboration communication community conference socialnetworking socialmedia social [...]
Making it up so you don't have to VISIT LINK: What The Fuck Is My Social Media Strategy? (tags: advertising bullshit business communication fb fun funny generator humor humour internet language marketing media satire social socialmedia socialnetworking strategy twitter web web2.0 wtf buzzwords social-media social-media-strategy socialweb socialmediastrategy …)
The whisky social network, Connosr is a vibrant community for whisky lovers. VISIT LINK: Connosr – Malt Whisky Community – Whisky Reviews, Ratings, Tasting Notes. (tags: alcohol blog blogs community drink drinks food inspiration whiskey socialmedia social reviews review reference network map socialnetwork socialnetworking twitter web web2.0 symphony spirits singlemalt scotland scotch malt connosr …)
Get Protected. Provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings. VISIT LINK: Reclaim Privacy (on Facebook) (tags: application bookmark bookmarklet bookmarklets browser community facebook facebook fb internet javascript privacy private scanner script web2.0 web tools tool tips socialnetworking socialmedia social security check checker datenschutz facebook-privacy reclaimprivacy …)
"Facebook's bait-and-switch on privacy and their overly complex settings cause many users to post messages intended for their friends to 'everybody'. That's the entire planet, for all time. This privacy-malfunction could have serious consequences if you're looking for a job, applying for college, or trying to get medical insurance." VISIT LINK: Openbook lets you search [...]
The Social Network. Directed by David Fincher. With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones. A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook. VISIT LINK: You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. (tags: documentary facebook fun film fb future inspiration movie movies network networking social socialmedia socialnetwork socialnetworking software [...]
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It! VISIT LINK: Foursquare is an endless string of meaningless buzzwords we just couldn't bring ourselves to transcribe (tags: 2010 article critique culture facebook foursquare fun funny humor humour internet journalism media mobile network networking news nytimes satire social socialnetworking socialnetworks socialmedia technology twitter web [...]
Got a website? Now you can embed a forum just like a YouTube video. VISIT LINK: Talki – The easiest way to embed a forum (tags: apps community discussion embed facebook feedback forum forums google free internet marketing plugin plugins service social socialnetworking software tools web twitter web2.0 webdesign webdev website widget widgets easy talki [...]
The Plus+ SDK offers a complete toolkit for developers who want to incorporate social play into their games for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. With Plus+, you can easily integrate Push Notifications, Twitter and Facebook connectivity, leaderboards, awards, and a suite of exciting new features we've yet to unveil. Plus+ developers also gain access [...]
The real story of the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success. In short, for users who won’t pay cash, a wide variety of “offers” are available where they can get in-game currency in exchange for lead gen-type offers. Most of these offers are bad for consumers because it confusingly gets [...]
To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things (Facial Attitude, Photo Context, Skin). We discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. VISIT LINK: The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures (tags: web internet funny social photo online photography culture photos image interesting media pictures [...]
Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your community, based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. BuddyPress is no longer limited to WordPress MU installations. It will now work with both WordPress and WordPress MU 2.9.1 and higher. You’ll get all the features of BuddyPress regardless of which WordPress version you [...]
Conversations With An Anonymous Facebook Employee The Rumpus: Do you save everything ever entered into Facebook at any time, whether or not it’s been deleted, untagged, and so forth? Facebook Employee: That is essentially correct at this moment. Rumpus: When you say “click on somebody’s profile,” you mean you save our viewing history? Employee: That’s [...]
People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return Recent analysis by the media research firm Nielsen asserts that 60 percent of Twitter users do not return from one month to the next. Thus far, Twitter has been considerably better at signing up users than keeping them. (tags: blog internet blogs news web2.0 [...]