Tag: Social Networking
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Vain in the name
These last few days have seen quite the interest in who scored which vanity URL from Facebook. Outside some commercially styled or really geek usernames (default.aspx an example – et al) most are true to their owner’s identity. That is assuming that you had a name that was uncommon enough across the millions of Facebook…
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Stay safe online – Access is a right, so is free speech
Some interesting articles came across my screen this morning while I was working on some podcasts. The first was a story from RRW that Trent Reznor is kinda quitting Twitter along with other celebrities who are also jumping off the Social Networking bandwagon. The second was from the Times, on how Les sages have ripped…
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Google’s unsocial social network
Google has likely been building this up internally for a while, as reported by the tech media: The problem with Google Profiles as a social network is that it’s not social. Google Profiles lacks the equivalent of Facebook’s “Wall Posts” and “Status Updates.” (Profiles has a status message, but only people on your Gmail Chat…
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Trust in Social Networks
It didn’t surprise me very much that there is already work done on trust and social networks (Google Scholar), what did surprise me how StalkDaily and Mickeyy spread this weekend on Twitter. It seems that the social engineering method of vectoring viri is alive as well. This time, not working off porn or warez, but…
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Separating Networks
For the past year, since I’ve been on Twitter, I’ve been looking at ways to post to both should the need arise. I found several tools to do this – ping.fm et. al. I had also tried the app within Facebook, but until this week, it never seemed to work “properly” for me. I was…