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FBI seeks to track Social Media en masse

, Jan 26th 2012 Discuss [3]

There’s a brand new job alert out there this week, engineers and developers, and you should hop right on it if you want to help the FBI work on a tool which will provide them with an “Open Source and social media alert, mapping, and analysis application solution.” What I want to do right now is, in a very basic way, debunk how this situation will almost certainly be blown out of proportion by the same crew of people that ultimately (and thankfully) took down the SOPA and PIPA bills. This tool, if I’m to trust the job offer I’m reading here from the Federal Business Opportunities website, is not going to be hacking into your personal or secured information in any way. Instead it will be a mass organization and search tool for the FBI to keep track of all social and open source sites on the internet at all times.

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Google+ speaks on teens, privacy additions, digs on Facebook

, Jan 26th 2012 Discuss [4]

There can be no denying that Google+ has one main competitor in Facebook, so it should come as no small surprise when they mention one another in day to day updates. What we're seeing today is an update to both the age range of Google+ users and the privacy which they all can enjoy on the Google-based social network. The mention of Facebook comes in the sad state of affairs Google sees on Facebook where 'teens end up over-sharing with all of their so-called “friends.”' Read The Full Story

Anonymous invites public to hit Facebook in massive DDoS attack [UPDATE: Denied]

, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [21]

In a brand new video which comes along with a message bringing tidings of an oncoming storm in the face of Facebook, Anonymous has dropped their newest threat. Later in this post I'll speak for a moment on whether or not this is actually the same Anonymous we've been talking about for the past few months, but know this: it doesn't matter, as the attack that they speak of will be run not by the hackers themselves, but by the public. In this way it is the democratic takedown that Anonymous speaks of each time they represent the greater whole - a perfect crushing of Facebook by the masses that would otherwise make Facebook thrive. Read The Full Story

Twitter acquires Summify for social aggregation

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [2]

The folks at Twitter have picked up a startup by the name of Summify, a group whose main goal it is to aggregate the social media users around the world deal with on a daily bases. As Twitter scoops up this company, so too does the Summify team move over to San Francisco and their products be transitioned into Twitter-centric orbs. Their main service, the aggregation product which moves Twitter, Facebook, RSS, and other streams into one product, will be shut down inside a month. Read The Full Story

Facebook now lets you listen to music with friends and groups

, Jan 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook has just announced a new feature that will let you listen to music with a friend or with a group of friends via Facebook's chat service. There's already plenty of music services integrated into Facebook now, with your ticker notifying you of who's listening to what and when, but now you can easily hit up a friend or friends and play virtual DJ directly in Facebook. Read The Full Story

Briefly envisioning an Apple-made social network

, Dec 22nd 2011 Discuss [9]

The following is an exploration of what I believe Apple will make sometime in the future if it ever decides to dip into what we currently call the social networking environment here with Facebook, Google+, and Twitter: you’ll find that it’s not wholly unbelievable, but that you’ll perhaps have some issues with agreeing to the full terms if you’re a hardcore Apple fan. An Apple social network would be and will be first and foremost something unique, or at least an amalgamation of uncommon elements combined into a new and groundbreaking service, and it’ll be integrated into its iProducts in a way that’ll once again re-invigorate the masses to buy in to the lifestyle. If Apple has something to the tune of a social network in the works today, this is what it looks like.

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Here’s why Google+ shouldn’t work, but does, for now

, Dec 21st 2011 Discuss [18]

Just a few months ago, inside the summer of 2011, we saw the birth of Google’s own utterly mystifying social networking site Google+, complete with an interface that resembled not one, but all of the rest of the social media sites combined – what we’ve seen since are hundreds of combatant posts yelling at one another about how Google+ is either growing rapidly or suddenly petering out. There are numbers that can prove both if you don’t pay attention to the other, that much is true. What I want to tell you today is why I think what’s GOING to happen almost certainly WILL.

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Yahoo thinks everything you read should be shared, that you should be comfortable with it

, Dec 21st 2011 Discuss [5]

If you've been a part of Facebook through the most recent round of updates that've included what they've dubbed "Frictionless Sharing", you know that many connected apps are now demanding that everything you experience through them should also be shared with all of your contacts - when asked by TechCrunch whether or not this was ruining users ability to curate what's shown in their day to day, Yahoo's Mike Kerns had some disturbing things to say. The conversation came about amid Yahoo's announcement that Facebook's Frictionless Sharing experience had brought them the auto-sharing of 1 million articles over a 2 month period, this leading to 500,000 daily referrals to their site. In response to this success, Yahoo has released a notifications system across their sites, this showing off content activity in a similar way to Facebook. Kerns basically tells TechCrunch that kids these days like to share, and should just suck it up. Read The Full Story

Facebook shakes hands with Greenpeace to axe Dirty Data

, Dec 15th 2011 Discuss [1]

When you think about Facebook, your thoughts are almost certainly stuck in the notions of updates, privacy, and tagging of unfortunate party photos - thats why it may well come as a surprise to you that today's news isn't about any of those things, it's about the social network teaming up with Greenpeace for a truce that says the former will adhere to the latter's renewable energy agreement. The announcement comes down today in a way that allows us much in the way of high-fives and handshakes and not so much in the way of actual hard facts on what'll be done in the future, but the outlook is positive. Facebook's previous use of "dirty data" as they call it is set to be no more if all goes well in this particular situation. Read The Full Story

Facebook “Other” Message Inbox makes us realize how addicted we are

, Dec 13th 2011 Discuss [7]

Very recently Facebook introduced a feature you may not have noticed, but will very likely have you flipping your lid when you see it for yourself for the first time - a "Social Inbox" as they call it, sorting your messages into two categories, making you miss a massive amount of connections if you do not make that extra click. An interesting source of people responding to the news of this extra inbox comes from Slate where everything from returned wallets to finding a lost father of twins have popped up in that extra "Other" box, enraging users who feel they weren't sufficiently informed about it. Now the question is this: should Facebook have made a greater effort to tell you that you had a new place to click if you wanted to get messages from strangers? Read The Full Story

YouTube unveils major redesign, gets social, adds algorithmic feeds

, Dec 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

YouTube unveiled today the biggest redesign of its homepage in history. The revamped interface appears to be part of Google's move to introduce a social layer to all its products, adding a new emphasis on integrations with social networks like Google+ and Facebook, as well as bringing in new algorithmic channel feeds. The emphasis on channel subscriptions also makes it easy to navigate and watch YouTube as if you were watching TV. Read The Full Story

Facebook settles FTC lawsuit, commits to 20 years of privacy audits

, Nov 29th 2011 Discuss [5]

Facebook reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission today in regards to the privacy-related lawsuit that accused the social network of "unfair and deceptive" business practices. The FTC lawsuit claimed that the company repeatedly shared user information with the public despite telling users that their information would be kept private. Read The Full Story
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