Does your social network define you?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Social networks are pretty well main stream now. Everyone has heard of MySpace and knows what it is, and even my teachers from high school or earlier are adding me on Facebook (I'm still not sure if them remembering me is a good thing or not). Every now and then ...

Facebook Goes Pro: How To Use Facebook’s New Privacy Controls

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

The biggest complaint I often heard from professionals about using Facebook as a networking tool was the lack of granular (read: very specific) control over just what "friends" of theirs see their information. Facebook has just remedied this by allowing just such granular control. While Facebook has always worked out ...

Facebook Beacon Summary

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Before I get into it, Facebook's PR is brilliant (read last bold paragraph for explanation). There's been a lot of talk on Facebook Beacon and its privacy settings. Really, a lot. More than was probably necessary. That's why I didn't cover it. But now that the whole thing is over, and ...

Share your story

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Okay, so when I haven't been developing the niche user generated content site, I've been thinking almost obsessively about life streaming and micro-blogging. Really, ReadWriteWeb's interview with David Karp on version 3 of Tumblr is what brought me back around to think about it more. While I agree Twitter and Tumblr ...

Questionable

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

I hope everyone had a happy Halloween yesterday! I just woke up after spending a long night being dressed as a pirate (pictures to come). It was quite enjoyable. Many didn't recognize me, which lead to a lot of staring and attention. Sure, it was like buying attention, but who ...