Posted by admin on May 16, 2009 in
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You might have seen this in the news lately and it’s really nothing new but FaceBook is under another attack where some group is phishing for passwords. You can read more about it here. When I say this is nothing new I mean that there is always something like this going on. Everyone always asks why anyone would do this but of course its money. I guess most people don’t realize that getting their hands on your FaceBook account might lead them to your bank account especially if you use the same password. There are a variety of other things that these types of attacks are generally after or in the case of computer viruses it’s typically to gain control of your computer.
What can you do about it?
Just play it safe. Don’t click on fishy looking links and never ever give your password to anyone.
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It was only a matter of time before Facebook really started with SMS. I don’t know why there was a perception that somehow only Twitter could have this sort of functionality but really that’s short sighted. Of course Facebook can add this and of course they were going to. You might say they were late to the starting block but they certainly showed up for the race. In a way it could be the tortoise and the hair since Facebook has an enourmous lead on Twitter regardless of the Oprah effect.
Anyways Facebook is adding some SMS functions and it looks good. You can now send text messages as updates and also receive updates to your phone. I am sure that will be popular. If you combine that with “real time” searching Twitter may or may not end up in a world of hurt.
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A lot of people have made many comparisons to Twitter and Facebook but really the comparisons being made should be Friendfeed with everyone trying to copy what they do and trying to do it ASAP. Live searching is quickly becoming all the rave and everyone is trying to implement some variation of this. It’s simple really. Real time promises just that, real time. In this day and age seconds are like years and waiting for a slow clumsy search engine like Google to get around and index all the data, well simply put that *^#$ ain’t happenin’! People want to know what’s going on right this very moment whether it is info such as links sent from their friends or whatever it is they want it NOW. That’s why Twitter has become such a prevalent news source. Twitter is just quicker to the punch. It can deliver speed and some great quality in combination with pictures such as what Tweetpic delivers. Video? Twitter can do that!
That’s why it’s interesting to watch the big dogs, that is larger social networks try to incorporate some of these ideas. What might happen is that the more established networks, with even larger internet populations, sort of do an Amish shun on the likes of Twitter. Whether Facebook can actually knock out Twitter remains to be seen but when they do become closer in capabilities it very well might mean the death of someone or something.
You can check out this story on what Facebook is doing to go Live!
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(In case you do not agree with something I said or feel that my blog or my beliefs could be construed as libelous I hereby declare that my entire blog is meant as a joke. I consider myself to be a comedian and everything I say or have said should be considered comedy. I want nothing I say to be taken seriously and if you do take it seriously take a break. If you do not think what I said is funny then that is your opinion. But for anyone who wants to sue me everything I said or say is meant purely as satire.The only thing that is not a joke is this disclaimer.)
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Posted by admin on Apr 8, 2009 in
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Facebook finally publicly admitted how many people are actually on Facebook. Many had been speculating how many users were on the site but I guess for whatever reason they have been keeping this a big secret. I suppose when you have so much at stake with advertising that you might want to wait until a certain moment to reveal just how big you are and I guess that moment is when you are a monster.
What this means of course is that Facebook is not merely a fad or going away anytime soon. I actually like some aspects of the site and it can work great to keep connected. With more features added regularly it seems like the site has a lot to offer now and in the future as well as keeping up with the Jones’ as other sites expand. Some have proposed that Facebook could kill off Twitter simply by emulating the site. For now both sites are seeing amazing growth and I must admit that must be nice to have in a website!
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(In case you do not agree with something I said or feel that my blog or my beliefs could be construed as libelous I hereby declare that my entire blog is meant as a joke. I consider myself to be a comedian and everything I say or have said should be considered comedy. I want nothing I say to be taken seriously and if you do take it seriously take a break. If you do not think what I said is funny then that is your opinion. But for anyone who wants to sue me everything I said or say is meant purely as satire.The only thing that is not a joke is this disclaimer.)
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Posted by admin on Mar 26, 2009 in
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For most people privacy is not only a concern it’s an absolute must. This is especially true when it comes to minors on the internet. Privacy matters as well when it comes to spam because in this day and age no one likes to give out emails because of the inevitable onslaught of spam that ensues afterwards.
While all the above is most certainly true you must be wondering why on earth anyone would want to give up all that privacy. Well for some of us we don’t want anything private. Every bit of information about us is shared on the internet. I don’t mean personal stuff, I mean business related stuff. My email, cell phone number, business address, pictures of myself, and website are all freely shared to anyone on the planet who wants to contact me. Unfortunately that’s the price of doing businesses nationally or globally. The price is no privacy and the payoff is plenty.
So Facebook did some tweaking because it realizes that not every Facebook user wants complete privacy. So now you can actually make your profile even more public and let people contact you even easier. You can read this story here for more information. I highly suggest anyone that is using social networking as a means to compliment their business to check into this.
Oh and while you are at it….
Want to be my friend?! 
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If you wonder why I keep writing so many posts about Facebook Connect it’s because everyone is talking about it and it’s probably the biggest thing to hit social networking all year. It’s certainly even bigger than all the changes on Facebook itself.
Well now Connect is coming to the I-Phone and I think this will be a big hit as well. I don’t own an I-Phone but a lot of people do and one thing for sure is that the 3G means connectivity and combine that with Facebook and you have a winner.
So far it looks like a lot of games are using Connect but I would think that’s just the tip of the iceberg. An interesting idea might be to figure out how to make this work better for you or your website.
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Everyone has been talking about how important Facebook Connect is and with good reason. The API lets you do so much with Facebook that it’s a no brainer that this would spread like wildfire to other websites and apps. Who wouldn’t want to connect to perhaps the biggest social network there is? I did within 30 minutes of the news dropping and you can actually see it in action on my Eau Claire Real Estate website. In fact I already had one person comment as to how I did it.
Then you take Twitter’s great API which is perhaps one of the most important reasons for Twitter’s success and certainly why there are so many great tools available for it and combine that with Facebook and you have basically have a triple punch knock-out combo. I don’t know what that really looks like but it hurts in a good way. So now you can use TweetDeck to send to both Twitter and Facebook, big news of course if you like to social network. You might have to wait just a teensy bit to actually get to see it in action.
You can get TweetDeck here.
You can follow TweetDeck here.
And you can follow me here!
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Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2009 in
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If you have been on Facebook in the past week you probably have seen the notice about changes coming. I wrote a post about some of the changes here. The hype has been huge and rightly so because now Facebook is a bit more like Twitter and hopefully it just adds a lot to functionality. If you want to see for yourself log into Facebook. I noticed that it still hasn’t rolled out to my area yet for whatever reason. I don’t know if I am in a different area or how it works other than its not here for me yet. I do know that they tweaked the pages and have that rolled out but I don’t have a page with much on it so I didn’t see all that much of a difference. I am waiting to see what it looks like with all the new features at once. You can go here for a tour of the new look.
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Posted by admin on Mar 4, 2009 in
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technology Facebook today announced a major overhaul of the site. Some of the new features a different way to integrate “pages” and removing the cap on being a fan. They are also adding many new Twitter-like features such as the ability to have one way friendships that is you can befriend someone without them being a friend back. The big news is also that they are streaming the chat in a different way to also be more like Twitter. So yes the talk is that Twitter might need a lifeline in order to stay useful so to speak. Critics would argue that Facebook doesn’t have SMS capabilities but is that in the works as well?
You can find out more here.
You can see what the changes look like here.
So what do you think is Twitter done for?
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Posted by admin on Feb 27, 2009 in
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technology Yahoo recently did something pretty cool. That might sound strange to say because for the most part you can poke Yahoo with a stick when you compare it to Google. But Google and Facebook don’t get a long for the most part so this makes sense. What is it? Yahoo added Facebook to their search results and now your face shows up if you use Facebook that is and of course they are looking for you or for some reason your profile just shows up in the search. That seems like a lot of ifs but you can see the results below.
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