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Ajaxian Who do I trust with my Identity? Erm, how about me? Ope
I was incredibly excited to see Dan Mills of the Weave team show off OpenID in the browser thanks to Weave. I have wanted this from long before joining Mozilla and Dan has done a great job and doing something smart to make it happen. The key to this all is the notion of “logging into the browser.”Google Friend Connect Expands, Silent War Brewing | The Blog Her
You might not have noticed, but there is a silent war going on, and it is all about how you will engage with other people on websites. Facebook Connect has gotten a lot of press, and with Twitter’s new OAuth functionality, we’re looking at Twitter Connect too. On the sidelines we find OpenID, which is still too bulky but might just get there, and Google Friend Connect . The latter pops up here and there as a widget mostly, but so far without the thunder of its Facebook equivalent.
Site owners often tell us that to build strong communities on the web, they have to be a jack-of-all-trades. With Google Friend Connect , we want to empower any website to awaken their community, even if the site owner doesn't have the technical background or the time to build social features from scratch. Today we're launching an enhanced comments gadget. With this gadget, visitors from all over the world can leave messages in their native tongue, and other viewers will be able to instantly translate these comments into the language of their choice.
Official Google Blog: Strengthening a worldwide community with G
4 Facebook Applications That Let You Do More with Facebook Photo
As spring settles in and summer approaches, cameras (or camera phones) will be pulled out for family vacations and weekend getaways, and people may be looking for new ways to share their photos on Facebook. This week, Inside Facebook gives a quick tour of four photo applications that can help you edit, present, and visualize pictures with greater creativity. 1. Animoto Videos (by Animoto.com , View AppData ) Animoto Videos is an application that creates a 30-second slideshow using pictures from your Facebook albums. After selecting 15 pictures, you pick a song (either from Animoto’s collection or your own), and the app puts a video together for you that’s customized to the music: “No two videos are ever the same.”
Three Reasons Why Twitter Will NOT Index the Links You Share - R
Product Review Site · Audio Technica Headphones for iPods · Cristina Quattrone California · Dating profiles sale @import url('http://s3.amazonaws.com/getsatisfaction.com/feedback/feedback.css'); FEEDBACK…seen as arrogant. Regardless of whether that charge is true, or sticks, or is fair, this is what will end up in our national “paper of record.” The Federal Trade Commission has begun an inquiry into whether the close ties between the boards of two of technology’s most prominent companies, Apple and Google, amount to a violation of antitrust laws, according to several people briefed on the inquiry.
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Enhance and Grow Your Online Community Through Appreciation
Today Patrick O’Keefe from iFroggy Network and the author of the book Managing Online Forums shares how appreciation can help grow the community on your blog. As online community managers and administrators, bloggers and general social media participants, we sometimes get so caught up in growing our community, that we forget to appreciate what it is that we do have. Appreciation is a powerful thing. If you manage an online community and are concerned with encouraging a healthy, positive atmosphere and with retaining members, there is one simple, relatively easy thing that you can do to improve your chances of doing both.
We just updated the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet with some great new features. ( Get it at http://bit.ly/pages/tools ) Our favorite new feature is the ability to Tweet directly from the bit.ly sidebar without leaving the page you are reading. Just sign in to bit.ly, link up your Twitter account, click the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet on any blog post, news article, or other page, and the bit.ly sidebar will open with a text field where you can enter some text and a link to the page you’re viewing and send it off to your friends on Twitter. In addition to easier Twitter publishing, you’ll also find links that make it easy to send a page to a friend via email, Gmail, or Facebook.
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The Astounding Evolution Towards Less In A "More Society&qu
No one pays much attention to anything these days.
@Google - @Twitter To Start Indexing Links For Search
Twitter Search is easily the most promising aspect of Twitter. People talk about mundane updates, or connecting with companies, or following celebrities — but that’s all small scale. The real power of Twitter lies in its aggregate data. Why do you think Google and every other company out there is interested in them?Santosh Jayaram, who until recently was manager of search quality operations for Google, was on a panel I was moderating in the evening. During the panel and later in a one-on-one discussion, Jayaram confirmed that Twitter Search, which currently searches only the text of Twitter posts, will soon begin to crawl the links included in tweets and begin to index the content of those pages. This will make Twitter Search a much more complete index of what's happening in real time on the Web and make it an even more credible competitor to Google Search for people looking for very timely content.
Cool changes coming to Twitter Search | Webware - CNET
Logic+Emotion: Earning Trust In Streams = Attention + Influence
Let's say you are a brand that someone trusts. You may be rewarded by getting permission to be "in the stream". Violate that trust and you are just as easily removed.It would appear that Twitter has launched a brand new format for their new follower notification E-mails they send out to users opting to be alerted to new followers. The e-mails are now in a prettier HTML format and include the new follower's name, Twitter username, and picture. They also include the number of updates, number of people they follow, and number of followers they have. While users aren't given the option to follow straight from the e-mail, you can block the user by clicking on a link in the e-mail.
Twitter Launches Enhanced New Follower E-mails - louisgray.com
Summary: Finally, some buzz about Twitter that’s worth a second look. Yesterday’s rumor about Apple being interested in Twitter was ridiculous. But the headlines now - not rumors but more like unsolicited suggestions - suggest that Twitter should instead be on on Microsoft’s radar (and Google’s, too, for that matter.) Microsoft is reportedly close to a cutting a [...] Finally, some buzz about Twitter that’s worth a second look. Yesterday’s rumor about Apple being interested in Twitter was ridiculous.