social | Kris Smith has read these articles about "social" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "social" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpTwitter is Old and Busted. FriendFeed is the New Hotness.- June 28, 2008 Shared by Mike "until it croaks completely" :) (This post started as an email to verso on Twitter, in response to her question I'm wondering how much longer pdx will take it from Twitter. Come on baby, you know I love you won't work forever will it Alternatives) I had been trying to reply via Twitter itself, but it's been either down or eating my updates - oh, the irony!) FriendFeed finally sucked me in this week. I finally got it. It's the next logical step up from Twitter, because it is a..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Tinyscreenfuls/~3/321476404/ Tripwolf Prepares For Public Launch - RWW Readers Can Get In Today- June 20, 2008 Last month a new travel social network called Tripwolf launched into private beta. The site offers a variety of content, including both professional editorial and user-generated reviews of destinations as well as a Google Maps mashup that layers users' photos onto a world map. Although Tripwolf is yet another travel site in an already extremely crowded niche, they've found some ways to differentiate themselves from the other sites out there. The end result is a good-looking, informative web...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/316321923/tripwolf_prepares_for_public_laun... Facebook Blows Past MySpace In Global Visitors For May- June 20, 2008 In April, Facebook caught up to MySpace in worldwide unique visitors (actually nudging past it with 116.4 million unique visitors versus 115.7 million for MySpace). Now the worldwide comScore numbers are out for May and Facebook continues to blow past MySpace with 123.9 million uniques (up 6 percent), versus 114.6 million for MySpace (down 1 percent). Facebook also boasted more pageviews worldwide (50.7 billion versus 45.4 billion). Maybe MySpace's redesign which just went live this week...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/316292259/ Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor- June 20, 2008 theodp writes "Move over, Thomas Edison. Here comes Mark Zuckerberg, inventor extraordinaire. Zuck's still waiting for that elusive first patent to be issued, but take a gander at the Facebook founder's patent application for Dynamically Generating a Privacy Summary to get an idea of what's in the works. After you check boxes on a form to indicate that 'Everyone from San Francisco, CA, Social Network Provider, and Harvard' can see your profile, Zuckerberg's 'invention' will miraculously...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/316264107/article.pl Facebook: Mark Cohler Explains His Departure- June 20, 2008 Kevin Maney adds: News yesterday of the departure of top Facebook exec Mark Cohler raised questions about why he&39;d go. If you weed through a lengthy and puffy transcript of the Q&A, you get to these comments from Cohler: Yeah, if you look at the things that I've done in my career so far, such as his, it's really basically been about one core thing. Try and find really interesting companies, and try to help great entrepreneurs to help build companies that are going to last and can have a.http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-tech-observer/2008/06/20/facebook-mark-cohler-exp... Silicon Prairie Social 3 Coming Up- June 12, 2008 Tim Courtney just filled me in on Silicon Prairie Social 3. Details below. While we do question the policy on not allowing active job seekers to attend we still like what SPS has done overall and we hope to see you all there! Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:30-10:00pm Mullen's Bar & Grill 3080 Warrenville Rd., Lisle, IL 60532 An opportunity to connect in an informal setting with like-minded people in technology; Silicon Prairie Social is specifically for upwardly mobile tech professionals, tech.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TechCocktail/~3/309835496/ Phony Online Profiles Triggering Lawsuits- June 4, 2008 Shared by internetcases Phony profiles on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are triggering lawsuits by school officials and public figures who claim that their reputations are being damaged online. Specifically, plaintiffs are suing individuals who are creating fake profiles of them, replete with derogatory comments, obscenities, unflattering photographs and, in some cases, sexually offensive information. Phony profiles on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook are.http://www.gigalaw.com/news/2008/06/phony-online-profiles-triggering.html |