Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
A few days ago TechCrunch wrote about how Dapper, a service that lets you widgetize all kinds of data sources on the web, is releasing a Facebook "AppMaker," that apparently lets you use the Dapper service to widgetize content in the from of Facebook applications.
From the post at TechCrunch, ...
Posted in Facebook | 5 Comments »
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Since you are all reading Brian Solis already, there's really no reason for me to point you to his gigantic(ly awesome) post from a few days ago about titled Social Media is About Sociology Not Technology.
He hits on some very key points. My Favorite one-liner is this:
Transparent and genuine ...
Posted in Best Practices | No Comments »
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Our friend and event co-founder Nick O'Neill has just announced his plans to run a weekly Facebook and community oriented video show:
We are going to begin making a once a week show that discusses everything related to Facebook, social networks and social news.
It sounds like juicy stuff. However, in the ...
Posted in Announcements | No Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
In our Facebook group the other day I commented about the clunkiness of Facebook's messaging system and, in addition, how the time-lag in e-mail notifications tends to screw me up more often than it helps me out.
So I decided to go in and turn off my e-mail notifications. On ...
Posted in Facebook | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
The top search result in Google for the term "facebook tutorial" is a video that came out when Facebook first launched its News Feed. In it, a guy jokes about how the News Feed makes his hobby of stalking girls on Facebook so much easier.
I remember the reaction among college ...
Posted in Best Practices | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
We've been talking over in the Facebook group about the personal/professional boundary. The need for more granular permissions has come up again and again.
Tinu Abayomi-Paul suggested that we organize an official petition to Facebook asking for more granular permissions, and I thought that this might be an excellent additional ...
Posted in Gatherings | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Many of us geeky Web-oriented types have blogs -- sometimes more than one of them. And it's only natural that we should want to share all the goings-on in our bloggy worlds with our network inside Facebook. We want to share our content and our opinions because sharing content starts ...
Posted in Blogs | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
According to Merriam-Webster online, the word "curmudgeon" means "a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man."
So I guess what we're really looking for her is a few good, crusty old men. Or perhaps what we're really after are Facebook skeptics.
Facebook is a great platform, but we all know that it's not ...
Posted in Gatherings | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Connie Bensen has posted a great walk-through of setting up your Facebook and engaging with Facebook groups. One of her observations about friending people struck me as an emerging best practice:
And if you invite someone to be your friend, just put a note in on how you connected.
I've been getting ...
Posted in Facebook | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The mullahs in Iran fear that students might use Facebook to organize a democratic revolution. That's why they've banned the use of this powerful tool at all the country's universities.
Apparently, the ban isn't working. There's now a Facebook group protesting Internet censorship in Iran. One woman who uses a ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
It's funny that Teresa decided to say that Scoble "uses his Facebook as a hub for all of his content," because I dropped this post title into the bottomless bin of post drafts yesterday morning having every intention of probably never writing it.
But I can't sit idly by while ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
There's been some speculation since we canceled the September Blog Business Summit that we've abandoned the blogging and blogging for business spaces outright. I understand why it would be easy to think that. We've made a pretty dramatic transition. In just a few days, we pulled the plug on our ...
Posted in Announcements | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
One major gripe about Facebook is that groups are easy to join, but they don't really stay at the forefront of your attention stream. I think this is because originally, students didn't use the groups as major community building tools. Instead, they were about private jokes and campaigns for class ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
I decided to put together a video demonstrating how business people can use Facebook for networking. Here's a couple of neat features that come in handy:
What did I miss? I'm sure I missed something. What are your favorite ways to use Facebook as a business tool?
Update: I posted a video ...
Posted in Facebook | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Facebook became all the rage during my senior year at Pomona College. All of a sudden, you were some kind of a rebel if you weren't on it.
At that point, I was kind of a Mac purist. If something rendered strangely in Safari, I didn't think it was worth using. ...
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