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Twine.com
This looks to be a competing service with Pearltree. I've been a member for a year or so. Never really kept my attention or caught on. No real interaction with the other folks who may have "subscribed" to the same twines. by May 8
People are up in arms about Facebook's new privacy policies , partly because some information was forced into public view and partly because there are so many settings that figuring out what's public and what's private is confusing. Guilbert Gates of the New York Times clears things up with the above graphic . To put it simply: there's a lot of stuff. Additionally, is a look at the growth of Facebook's privacy policy by number of words:
Facebook privacy options untangled
Yesterday, AdAge ran a story that Facebook was preparing to roll out its first true location-based service (beyond its for-fun Presence thing ). The story said that the social network was partnering with McDonald’s for a special Facebook app that would allow people to check-in to restaurants and get deals. But apps that use location to emulate Foursquare on Facebook have limited appeal.
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Five Best Personal Landing Pages
Not everyone has the time or inclination to build and maintain a full-fledged web site. If you're just looking for a simple way to unify all your online profiles, these personal landing pages are a perfect fit. Photo by datarec .
Public Sector
Posted on 23 June 2010. A little over a month ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation offered their suggestions about what a social networking "bill of rights" should contain. Last week - after much commenting and writing and rewriting - an almost unanimous consensus on the main points that such a bill should contain has been reached between the attendees of the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference held in San Jose. Here is the final version:
Social networking "Bill of Rights" released
Marketwire Acquires Social Media Monitoring And Analytics Startu
Rumors of social media monitoring and analytics startup Sysomos’ acquisition by Marketwire swirled in the blogosphere yesterday, but today it’s been made official. In a blog post on Sysomos’ site today, the company announced that has been bought by the press release wire service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.