Recently I did a little review of what I learned from social media in 2009. As part of that review, I spent a bit of time looking over notable tweets from others that I had saved from various points in the year. I found lots of useful information (even some I’d forgotten already), but one tweet really stuck out
According to the latest posts on the Facebook blog, the privacy changes founder Mark Zuckerberg announced last week will start taking effect today. Upon login, every Facebook user will be required to check out the new privacy settings and adjust their own accordingly, although no one I’ve spoken with has yet received this prompt. As [...]
Earlier today on the Google blog, the search engine giant announced some new content will begin appearing in search results, including public content from social networking sites like Twitter and FriendFeed. The announcement promises “a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web,” and was followed by a post from Facebook announcing that they [...]
In an “open letter” to Facebook users posted last night, Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg took a moment to toot his own horn, noting that Facebook now has 350 million users. He then outlined some upcoming changes designed to improve privacy settings within the social networking tool, namely the demise of regional networks. According to Zuckerberg, [...]
myKite, the popular Brightkite client for BlackBerry, was just updated to version 1.5 today, according to Chris Hallgren via Twitter (@myKiteapp). myKite users will notice that not much has changed aesthetically – the same simple, yet useful interface greets you on login – but the new version does address unspecified bugs with viewing posts. In [...]
Rarely using Brightkite from the web in favor of myKite on my BlackBerry Storm, I thought that the recent problems connecting and locating myself were on my end. Today, though, after extended periods of denied access and even a fresh install of myKite, I decided to go to Brightkite’s site and was greeted with this: [...]
If you ask a hundred people why they use social media networks, or even what got them into social media, you’d probably get a hundred different answers.