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Ajaxian Who do I trust with my Identity? Erm, how about me? Ope. Friday, May 8th, 2009 <p>Reposted from my personal blog 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.” Back to the point at hand. Here it is in action: In one fell swoop we get: A usable login procedure that is trivial! Of course, this is early days, as Dan says in his post Keep in mind that this is just a prototype that we hacked together in a few of days, so there are some very rough edges.

People and Places Now we are getting the notion of “people” and Identity in the browser, and we also have “location” too, we are really getting somewhere. Who do you trust? How To Be Polite In A Social World. 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. Well, that’s not quite right, they don’t really do the same thing since GFC is more of a widgety thing that adds functionality, whereas FC is an actual login method, but nevertheless they are competing in the same space.

Google obviously know that they are falling behind with GFC, but that doesn’t stop them from rolling out new features. I’m sure Google will find its focus with GFC, because they could have the same massive impact as Facebook and potentially Twitter has with their external services. No description available. 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.”

A neat feature is that you can remix the video in one click if you’re not happy with the current version, and Animoto will re-customize the video for you. The app allows you to tag friends and circulate the video by publishing it to your Wall. 2. 3. 4. Three Reasons Why Twitter Will NOT Index the Links You Share - R. Yow. This Is What Happens When You Are Big. And... - John Battel. …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.

At the end of my book, and the beginning of a new phase of this site, I suggested that Google’s largest issue will be its “failure to fail.” I also compared, and continue to compare, the company to Microsoft in the late 90s, when it struggled with anti-trust investigations that ultimately proved hobbling, if not in profits, at least in its quest to be the most innovative and fastest growing company in the technology sector. If any lesson is to be drawn, perhaps prematurely, from all this, it’s that no company – or two companies – can lead a culture for longer than half a generation. Enhance and Grow Your Online Community Through Appreciation. We just updated the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet... We just updated the bit.ly sidebar bookmarklet with some great new features. ( Get it at ) 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. Or, just copy the short link directly to share it via IM. Below all of these sharing tools, you’ll see a summary of clicks the page has received. At the bottom of the sidebar, you will see a summary of Twitter and Friendfeed conversations about the page. Enjoy the new sidebar. Install at: The Astounding Evolution Towards Less In A &quot;More Society&qu. No one pays much attention to anything these days. In August 1981, the world changed dramatically. The saying "I Want My MTV," was introduced, and even though musicians traditionally stood behind the music, now they were forced not only to put a face to it, as they would in concerts, but also on music videos, a visual representation of their songs.

As music began to transcend its own media channel and enter into something completely new, there was a small but vocal outcry. These short blasts of music video would kill everything we knew and loved about culture. The ushering in of the MTV era is often linked to discussions around how much shorter the attention span of teenagers was becoming. Kids could no longer listen to an entire album and just wanted a quick fix (with visuals to go along with it). It was no longer about having an abundance of anything, but rather getting satisfaction in something much smaller with less time and attention needed to focus and concentrate. By Mitch Joel. @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? It’s not just because they are the hot ticket in town right now, despite what some would have you believe. It’s all about the data. Speaking on a panel today, Santosh Jayaram, Twitter’s new VP of Operations, had some very interesting things to say, Webware’s Rafe Needleman who moderated it, reports. Apparently, Twitter Search will index the content of these pages as well. Of course there is no way Twitter Search will index as many pages as Google, but that’s not the point. Twitter’s biggest trump card here is the real-time factor. One thing that is more clear is that Twitter is also looking at ways to better tailor search results.

Cool changes coming to Twitter Search | Webware. Correction: Santosh Jayaram's title at Google has been corrected. Twitter Search will become a lot more useful soon, the microblogging site's new vice president of operations said Wednesday night. 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.

Twitter Search will also get a "reputation" ranking system soon, Jayaram told me. Jayaram did not say precisely how reputation will be calculated; he indicated that engineers are still figuring that out. Earning Trust In Streams = Attention + Influence. Several months ago I did some thinking around the notion of "paid and earned media". I wanted to continue that vein of thinking a bit, perhaps broaden it and provide some new context.

Let's put marketing aside for a moment. Let's even put the social web aside. Before our obsession with "social media" existed, we had e-mail, which as imperfect as it is has become very relevant when we think about things such as attention, action and even influence. Let's say you are a brand that someone trusts. Managing Multiple StreamsNow let's fast forward beyond e-mail (without excluding it). Getting Access To Our StreamsThere are all kinds of ways people are trying to gain access to your "streams". Trust = Attention While "getting in the stream" may be doable from both technical if not clever means (PR firms know how to do this), trust is another story. Anyway, just a few thoughts I've got rolling around in the noggin at the moment. Twitter Launches Enhanced New Follower E-mails - louisgray.com. By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Facebook/FriendFeed) 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. It would appear as though Twitter is now competing head-to-head to the recently sold business, Twimailer and another popular e-mail service, Topify. The New Look for Twitter E-mail Notifications The Old Look for Twitter E-mail Notifications. Between the Lines mobile edition. 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 search deal with Yahoo. One source tells All Things D's Kara Swisher that a deal is "closer than it has ever been. " But some are now wondering if Microsoft might be better off picking up Twitter for some pocket change (well, pocket change to a company like Microsoft) and be on the forefront of a technology that has the potential to disrupt search as we've come to know it. Just last night, at the TEDx event in San Francisco, some folks and I got into a pretty good discussion about the value of Twitter, specifically Twitter Search and the potential to disrupt Google's hold on search. Googleplex in 200 Seconds. The video below shows some interesting facts about Googleplex, Google's headquarters from Mountain View.

Googleplex is a vivid mix of technology, fun activities, healthy food, eco-friendly materials and college campus atmosphere. Wikipedia's article has a detailed description of the Plex. "The four core buildings, totaling (47,038 m²), were built for and originally occupied by Silicon Graphics (SGI). (...) Since the buildings are of relatively low height, the complex covers a large area. . { via Blogoscoped Forum } Women Prefer Blogs/Facebook To Twitter. Women keep their personal lives and business lives very separate when it comes to social media, according to the 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass Partners. While women consider blogs great sources of information, especially regarding purchases, the vast majority of women use social networks solely for keeping in touch with family and friends.

Over half (55%) of the women surveyed in said they participate in some kind of blog activity (publishing, posting comments, reading), and 53% use social networks. But here’s the kicker: Women use social networks in the purest sense only; 75% use them to keep in touch with friends and family, and not so much as information sources or for making purchase decisions. That’s a major insight considering this is the half of population making 85% of purchase decisions in the US.

A third of those participating in social networks are loyal to just one and do no other social media activities on a weekly basis. It&amp;#8217;s Not About the Tools, It&amp;#8217;s About the Str. Given the vast and growing number of online tools available to web workers, choosing which to use can seem overwhelming. This makes it easy to obsess more about the tools themselves rather than the strategy for using them, as if by choosing the perfect tools you can guarantee the success of your ventures. Of course, that is hardly ever the case. Even great tools, used with very little planning, will seem mediocre at best. I often give advice to people who are interested in starting online businesses. This problem of constantly flipping tools doesn’t just happen with social media. So what should you be doing instead of obsessing about the choice of tools? Define your goals. As much as possible, choose quantifiable goals so it will be easy to determine whether they’ve been achieved or not.

Find your audience. Stay authentic. Know when to stop. Image by woodsy from sxc.hu. The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media. There are a million ways for businesses to use social media well, and only a handful of ways to do it horribly wrong. So why do companies keep falling into the same traps? The answer is easy: human nature. And as we all know, humans are constantly beset by malicious temptations.

So as a public service, I've decided to break down the Seven Deadly Sins that make social media go sour. (Click on any one of the tips to learn more.) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. If you're a glutton for insight, read on after the jump. 1. 2. 3. 4. To give it to them. 6. 7. Today's art credits: Logo design by Luckie Art Director Allison Graves. CloneCloud: The Power of Cloud Computing Comes to Mobile Phones. The Big Kindle Revealed (Liveblog)

Victoria&amp;#8217;s Secret PINK Leads the Fashion Category on F. Communities and Collaboration Knowledge 2.0 for local governmen. Google Testing New Service Features On Chrome First? 6 Useful FeedBurner Features that are Normally Ignored. More tools and tricks for teachers. Firefox Could Be the Real Facebook Challenger - ReadWriteWeb. Facebook Upgrading &amp;#8220;Insights&amp;#8221; Metrics Dashbo. Social Business mobile edition. White House Launches New Facebook Profile to Increase Transparen. The Value of Social Media for B2B Purchase Decisions Brain Vibe. BeamME Integrates with Twitter, Launches App for Beaming Docs - Apple to buy Twitter? Is there reason behind the madness? - The. Dear Facebook, I Think You Forgot Your “A” Game… Hospital Creative Draws Inspiration from YouTube, Facebook - Mar. For the iPhone App Store, Future Means Chaos &amp; Opportunity. Hi5 Adds Chat, With A Social Twist. Friends Are Most Trusted Source on Internet : Buzz Networker - S.

Why Facebook Can&#039;t Become Twitter: Its Closed Nature | Tech. Why People Are Better At Lying Online Than Telling A Lie Face-to. Incompatible Browser. 85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow. Everything You Need to Know About Creating Killer Content in 3 S. Social Business mobile edition.