Has there ever been a startup that’s had so much success despite itself — despite its complete lack of understanding about how people use its service? Let’s hope for Ev’s sake that Twitter ads work better than most Twitter products. Otherwise, he might be this generation’s John Sculley, the guy who took over Apple, fired its founder, launched a bunch of dumb products, and almost killed the company. via Is Twitter’s Ev Williams The New John Sculley?. Fellow introvert Joanne McNeil on Jonathan Rauch’s classic article on introverts and what introversion might mean on the internet. Social media drains me like a large party might. I just deactivated Facebook. And I don’t @ much on Twitter. Too often it feels like the “fog of [an extrovert's] 98-percent-content-free talk,” as Rauch put it. Tags: introversion Joanne McNeil Jonathan Rauch (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» kottke.org Caring for your online introvert: .) [ continue reading Caring for your online introvert ] TweetDeck, the popular Adobe Air desktop app for social networks (though an HTML5 version is on the way), has now integrated Foursquare into its latest release. The move represents the latest from the startup to grab the “social dashboard” crown against the likes of Seesmic and others, although Tweetdeck seems to be heading towards a kind of “Pro User” space more than anything else. Now, adding your Foursquare account into Tweetdeck adds a location column. This has the handy benefit that Foursquare tweets can now be filtered out of your “All Friends” twitter column. A lot of people [ continue reading Tweetdeck Adds Location Column, Integrates Foursquare ] Your digital life can be split into two parts: content and data. You know plenty about the content: that oh-so-hilarious tweet you punched out after closing time, or those delicious pictures of the new baby posted on Flickr especially for your aunt in Australia. You create this stuff, and much of the privacy argument has been over whether strangers or ex-girlfriends or even your parents should be allowed to see it without your express permission. Yet all that is a handful of dust compared to the cascades of data about yourself that you shed daily. What sort of information? [ continue reading Facebook, Google and Twitter: custodians of our most intimate secrets ] 25 May 2010  |  | category: facebook, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious, the state we're in, twitter  | comments are closed  We already knew it was hours if not minutes away – see our earlier report – and it’s perhaps no surprise that New Zealand gets the goods ahead of Europe and the US (a bit like New Year’s day). Yes folks, the official Twitter app for iPhone is here, you know the one expected based on Tweetie ever since Twitter bought the company. We expect other iPhone app stores around the world to propagate shortly. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch Yes Folks, The Official iPhone Twitter App Is Here: .) [ continue reading Yes Folks, The Official iPhone Twitter App Is Here ] Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, caught offering the personal data of Facebook users to a friend and calling people that trusted him with their info “dumb f**ks.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy. Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won’t Help Facebook’s Privacy Problems. An early instant messenger exchange Mark had with a college friend won’t help put [ continue reading Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won’t Help Facebook’s Privacy Problems ] Facebook has downplayed the significance of a company-wide meeting to discuss privacy issues. The blogosphere described the meeting as a panic measure following weeks of criticism over the way it handles members’ data. Several US senators have made public calls for Facebook to rethink [ continue reading Facebook downplays privacy crisis meeting ] Now this makes interesting viewing! here are the graphics in case the NYT takes the page behind a paywall Pop quiz: Which is longer, the United States Constitution or Facebook’s Privacy Policy? If you guessed the latter, you’re right. Facebook’s Privacy Policy is 5,830 words long; the United States Constitution, without any of its amendments, is a concise 4,543 words. The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking – NYTimes.com. As my Facebook friends and Twitter followers know, like many others I’m angry at Facebook. I haven’t written a blog post about it because so many others have been making most of my points so eloquently (forgive me for not linking to them). But I relent, and here it is anyway, in the form of responses to the criticisms of criticism that I keep hearing: Online Fandom » Why, despite myself, I am not leaving Facebook. Yet.. [ continue reading Why, despite myself, I am not leaving Facebook. Yet. ] Wondering exactly why people are so pissed about Facebook’s latest display of contempt for user privacy? The Electronic Frontier Frontier Foundation’s Kurt Opsahl has a good, short article explaining just what’s going on with the new “Connections” anti-feature: 1. Facebook will not let you share any of this information without using Connections. You cannot opt-out of Connections. If you refuse to play ball, Facebook will remove all unlinked information from your profile. 2. Facebook will not respect your old privacy settings in this transition. For example, if you had previously sought to share your Interests with “Only [ continue reading Six reasons to hate Facebook’s new anti-privacy system, “Connections” ] “Social networking is a dance. You throw a party, help people get out on the floor, and get out of the damn way. People have a good time, they talk about that time you threw an awesome party, and you take credit for that couple that met there and got hitched later. Instead, Facebook has turned into that loud, obnoxious girl that spills her drinks on people and trips you when you’re trying make your move on the cute girl with the Jimi Hendrix obsession. We just want you to throw an awesome party and stay out of the way, [ continue reading Colleges ‘Freaking Out’ Over New Facebook Community Pages ] John Moe and the new public radio show Future Tense did a segment this week about people quitting Facebook over privacy concerns. They report that quitting doesn’t really resolve those concerns. First, deleting is different from deactivating, and the deletion process isn’t easy for everyone to figure out. Still, even if you do manage to truly delete your account once and for all, John reports: “You’ll never see that data again. But Facebook will. They still have that information and will continue to use it for data mining.” Will the data at least be anonymized, the reporter [ continue reading Go ahead, quit Facebook, but they’ll retain and data mine your info ] A new application aims to put users back in control of their private data stored on the increasingly public social networking site, Facebook. With “The Green Safe” app, Facebook users can now export their profile data for off-site storage on Green Safe’s servers. Data can then be purged from Facebook itself, allowing only friends to view profile information by way of a profile page tab labeled “My Info.” New App Helps Keep Facebook’s Hands Off Your Data. [ continue reading New App Helps Keep Facebook’s Hands Off Your Data ] The internet is Ochlocratia and all attempts to institute Theocratia or Oligcratia are doomed to fail In both of these “closed” examples, Facebook and the App Store, they key to longevity is a movement towards open. If either Facebook or Apple resist that, they’ll become AOL. Something will come along and shove them out of way. It has happened before. It will happen again. And it will keep happening. It’s inevitable. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability: .) [ continue reading Facebook, The App Store, And The Sound Of Inevitability ] I wrote yesterday’s piece about Twitter very quickly, too quickly — because I came up with a shitty title that didn’t reflect how I was thinking about it. We’re in the phase of the tech loop where what matters is how impressive your latest press event was. To illustrate the effect of a great press event, look at this post by Scoble where he basically says Game Over, point-set-match to Facebook, checkmate, everyone go home, the fat lady has sung, etc etc. The problem is that Scoble (who I love as a dear friend) will write the same freaking [ continue reading How Twitter can save itself from Doom ] It’s exam time folks and we have some advice for all you teen social-media addicts out there. GIVE IT UP AND MATRICULATE LIKE IT MATTERS 29 April 2010 | | category: daren't parent, facebook, Gallery of the bleedin' obvious | comments are closed For the last few months we’ve been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we’re releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for WordPress. Now anyone who publishes through WordPress can use the plugin to organize coverage of an ongoing event on a single dynamic page. Google News Blog: Bringing Living Stories to WordPress. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» GOOD Main Death in the Age of Facebook: .) I am missing something so the revolution doesn’t work for me. The very fact that it doesn’t actually work is far outweighed by its ubiquity – that worked for Microsoft so it will work for Facebook, for a while. Last week Facebook unveiled a variety of new developer tools, and new consumer applications are set to be launched in the near future. What’s most interesting about these changes aren’t the debates about whether what Facebook is doing is good for the Internet or not, or how open or not open their solutions are. Those debates are important but they don’t [ continue reading The Age Of Facebook ] By default, the “Allow” checkbox for Instant Personalization is checked on your privacy settings. If you don’t want the websites that you or your Facebook friends visit to know your information, you must opt out. Since this process is a bit complicated, we have made a quick video showing step by step how to do so. Simply unchecking the “Allow” box is not sufficient. As Facebook explains, “if you opt out, your friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalize their experience on these partner sites unless you block the application.” Nor can you go to [ continue reading How to Opt Out of Facebook’s Instant Personalization ] There is a lot of action surrounding Foursquare right now. And CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley has a tough decision to make. It’s already been widely reported that Yahoo is seriously pursuing a Foursquare acquisition, but now we’re hearing that at least two other companies are in talks or have been in talks recently with the location-based startup as well. And they’re big ones: Facebook and Microsoft. Facebook, from what we’re hearing, has been talking to Foursquare about a range of possibilities in recent weeks, but seems to have cooled on the idea of an outright acquisition. Microsoft, meanwhile, [ continue reading Facebook And Microsoft Check-In With Foursquare. Will Crowley Sell? ] 23 April 2010 | | category: facebook, Google, location+, maps & mapping, social media tools | comments are closed With last week’s declaration by Twitter that it intends to start identifying places based on the coordinates of geo-coded Tweets, the location land rush is in full swing. A long list of companies including Twitter, Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, SimpleGeo, Loopt, and Citysearch are far along in creating separate databases of places mapped to their geo-coordinates. Mapping businesses, in particular, to the GPS locations near where people are checking in, Tweeting from or pegging a photo is the first step to be able to show them geo-targeted ads, which could help fuel local mobile online advertising in a [ continue reading it’s time for an open database of places ] I won't argue. Adds the site, "Funny Facebook statuses, Fails, LOLs and More." Fair warning: Major potential time sink. There goes the day…. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» bookofjoe lamebook — 'The funniest and lamest of Facebook': .) 22 March 2010 | | category: can't make it up!, the new 'priest class', the state we're in, twitter | comments are closed “If Twitter wants to be a force for good they should stick to small things they have high leverage over, not fancy “big picture” things that any other rich person could do. Bill Gates made this mistake. Instead of cutting off the air supply of his competitors and landing his company in antitrust hell, he could have been a Force For Good by welcoming competition as a way to keep his company tough and on their toes and responsive to customers. [ continue reading Twitter as a force for good? ] Logging into Twitter over the last few days, users are being prompted to update their profiles. According to the AP, Twitter is encouraging people to allow their e-mail addresses and mobile phone numbers to be included in the service’s search index. Let’s be honest, this is more of a Twitter acquisition strategy than a Twitter service improvement. The more information Twitter has about its users, the more it can charge advertisers. Twitter may push out 50 million tweets every day, but after four years in business the blue birdie needs to make some bank. (CLICK HERE FOR [ continue reading Social Media Spring Cleaning Tips – important ] So the mad dad with check-in fever may suddenly have a point? Facebook has been doing background checks, known as due diligence, on the location-based social network Loopt, a source with knowledge of the talks tells us. Generally speaking, due diligence of this kind is only performed when a company is in acquisition or fundraising talks. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch Facebook Checks-In On Loopt: .) I quit my job at Oracle in 1999 because I couldn’t stop thinking about a simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Amazon.com?” Why couldn’t applications be run from a simple website, without software or hardware to install, and pricy consultants to hire? Why couldn’t we just compute in the Internet, or the cloud, and get away from the data center and all its complexity. Simply put, I wanted to simplify the enterprise. It was a pretty straight-forward idea, but from the confines in which I sat, there wasn’t anything close to a straight-forward solution. (CLICK HERE [ continue reading The Facebook Imperative ] I have often said I don’t ‘get’ Facebook. I think if I have something to say or share I post it to a blog. If one links your blog to your Facebook or Twitter people get snitty about overposting or ask why one finds some things interesting and request read-throughs; but they still send endless Facebook.app quizzes or pics of their forearm and gurning face beside an inebriated friend’s face. I do not know why people give their work and possessions to Facebook with no understanding of the ownership, copyright or privacy issues that this may bring to them and [ continue reading The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait. What? ] |  
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