This has been a big week at Google, what with big changes to Gmail and Google Reader. Some folks are not thrilled with the new more Plus-friendly Google Reader. I can sort of see their point. I didn’t use Google Reader’s “Shared Items” feature, mostly because they never integrated it with Feedburner’s Link Splicer in…
In the comments on that last post, Steven asks: Mike, can you post instructions on how to post a pic to fb and restrict it so only 10 of my 100 friends can see it? ’cause I certainly haven’t figured that out yet. Fair enough, I’ll show you how I did something similar, and then…
Patrick DiDomenico does a great job of testing out Facebook’s “Download your Information” feature and testing exactly how useful it would be as a form of electronic discovery. He concludes: According to my test, the Facebook DYI feature gathers a user’s information as it appears in their Facebook account at the time of the initiation…
I’m sure many of you who use Facebook have seen some mention of the new “feature” where instead of simply having all of your interests, schools, workplaces, etc. in your profile be a link to a search for that phrase, they now want you to link all of those to public pages. Thereby making your…
I’m sure many of you have seen the announcement that Ning will be closing down the free side of their social network platform. The news hit me personally, as I have been using Ning to host a social network for child abuse survivors. One of the biggest reasons I choose that platform, as opposed to…
The big “story” this week has been the website Please Rob Me, which used some basic twitter searches for FourSquare check-in’s to try and convince people that posting where they are meant that anyone would know when they weren’t home. As if there weren’t a hundred easier ways to target someone and know when they…