Posts Tagged: Facebook

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25
Feb 10

Facebook Premium Invites?

While they may do it someday, that day isn’t today.  The invites you are receiving to ‘Facebook Premium’ are a hoax.  The instructions are as follows:

You supposedly get yourself on the queue for a free upgrade by pasting the following into the “invite friends” address box:

javascript

:elms=document.getElementById(’friends’).getElementsByTagName(’li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

That code will automatically invite all of your friends, presumably why we received the invite in the first place, and why it already has over 7,000 members.  Read more...

Technology / Web 2.0 / Webculture — No Comments
13
Feb 10

Google and Facebook

During each of the user revolts which followed Facebook’s earlier redesigns, the official response from the top had been to dig in their heels and sell the changes they had made.

Google has had a very different response, having made many changes on a near-immediate basis to directly address user concerns and suggestions.

The impact of their differing philosophies may seem insignificant now, but stances like that are what define the differences between the Apple and Microsoft of an earlier time.

Business / Consumer Behavior / Metablogging / Organizational Dynamics / Webculture — No Comments
12
Feb 10

The Aardvark and the Algorithm

A couple of guys work for Google and then leave.  They then open a startup that is a social Q&A service.

The gist of Aardvark [vark.com] is that it looks at your social graph (a representation of your online connections with people), sees what you know (as self-reported and evident on your various profiles and content), and then submits questions for your consideration from other users.  From vark.com:

When you want trusted information — product recommendations, travel suggestions, local tips, or career advice — a real conversation with a friend (or friend-of-friend) can be much more helpful than searching the web.  Read more...

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7
Feb 10

NFL Super Bowl Terms-of-Service Nullification

There’s a concept in the law known as “jury nullification” [wiki], where a jurist or jury can ignore the judges orders, precedence, or sentencing guidelines in an attempt to write a grievious societal wrong.   During tonight’s Superbowl broadcast, you are likely to experience something similar.

The NFL has a history of being aggressive in asserting their rights over intellectual property, from going after churches to asserting that they own the rights to “Who Dat!”.

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6
Feb 10

Daily Links for February 3rd through February 5th

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  • FORTUNE MAGAZINE – informational images –
  • Born Poor? | Santa Fe Reporter – Bowles’ most recent paper, published in the October 2009 issue of Science, was a huge project with 25 collaborators. It examines how wealth is transferred from parents to children in hunter-gatherer societies versus agricultural societies.
    That might seem distant from the busy unemployment offices on Guadalupe Street. But everyone can relate to his chosen subject: inequality. He studies the economic differences between people with the same discipline that Jane Goodall studies chimpanzees or Stephen Hawking studies the cosmos.
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5
Feb 10

Daily Links for February 3rd through February 5th

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  • Free FLV Converter | YouTube Converter | BENDER CONVERTER – Bender Converter is an easy-to-use online application for downloading and converting videos from such services as YouTube, Daily Motion, Vimeo, Wat.tv, Veoh, Vids.MySpace.com, Google Video and many others. You can download video and audio in MP3, AVI, FLV Flash, iPod / iPhone and other popular formats. The service is fast and doesn't require you to register. All that you need is a link to a page with a video and our software.
Elections 2010 — No Comments
15
Jan 10

Creative Political Disruption

We try and try to work within the system.  A couple of years ago TBogg pointed out our naiveté of how the system really works?

Every year in Happy Gumdrop Fairy-Tale Land all of the sprites and elves and woodland creatures gather together to pick the Rainbow Sunshine Queen. Everyone is there: the Lollipop Guild, the Star-Twinkle Toddlers, the Sparkly Unicorns, the Cookie Baking Apple-cheeked Grandmothers, the Fluffy Bunny Bund, the Rumbly-Tumbly Pupperoos, the Snowflake Princesses, the Baby Duckies All-In-A-Row, the Laughing Babies, and the Dykes on Bikes. They have a big picnic with cupcakes and gumdrops and pudding pops, stopping only to cast their votes by throwing Magic Wishing Rocks into the Well of Laughter, Comity, and Good Intentions. Afterward they spend the rest of the night dancing and singing and waving glow sticks until dawn when they tumble sleepy-eyed into beds made of the purest and whitest goose down where they dream of angels and clouds of spun sugar.

You don’t live there.

Grow the fuck up.

Both parties fail us.  That’s obvious when the healthcare reform bill that passed with a supermajority is liked by no one and may still be scuttled over the incomprehensible possibility of losing Ted Kennedy seat in Massachusetts.

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8
Jan 10

Daily Links for January 3rd through January 8th

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  • Then vs. now: How prices have changed since 1999 – During the subsequent decade, the stock market made us rich as kings, then poor as church mice. We've taken a look back to see how the years have affected the price of 50 things we buy, or wish we could buy. Thanks to inflation, it takes around $1.30 to buy what $1 bought in 1999.
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21
Dec 09

Daily Links for December 21st

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  • The Value of Sharing: Social Engagement | ShareThis – Even more important than the gross traffic originating from shared links is the social engagement of sharing. When compared to search, sites in our network are seeing up to 50 percent more engagement from sharing. Meaning share-originated links are driving up to 50 percent more page views per unique than search. Search drives a very focused click and is still the standard for intent. We feel influence is a proxy for the new social intent.
  • mental_floss Blog » 6 Great Christmas Comic Book Adventures – You can’t forget the great Christmas songs, movies and television specials. But what of the wonderful, heart-warming Christmases you spent with Archie, Richie Rich, Mickey Mouse and Little Lulu? Even super-heroes sometimes take a break from clobbering super-villains at Christmas. Here are some of the classic holiday stories that have made their way into the comics over the years.
  • Public Looks Back at Worst Decade in 50 Years – Pew Research Center – As the current decade draws to a close, relatively few Americans have positive things to say about it. By roughly two-to-one, more say they have a generally negative (50%) rather than a generally positive (27%) impression of the past 10 years. This stands in stark contrast to the public's recollection of other decades in the past half-century. When asked to look back on the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, positive feelings outweigh negative in all cases.
  • The Only Social Media Metric that Matters – In social media, the most common indicators we use tend to be engagement metrics. The hope is that if a user is going through the site or returning more often than they must be part of the community.

    On Facebook and social media sites, we look to fan counts and interaction. Examples include comments and retweets. These are supposed to indicate a growing and more dedicated community.

    On the surface that seems fine. But these indicators only look at the top level of interaction.

  • DazzleShips – An overview of the process of camouflaging WWI ships.

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