Social Media Experiments
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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
foursquare
Millions of people check in on foursquare every day to meet up with friends nearby, keep up with friends around the world, and share their experiences through photos and comments. Discover what's nearby Looking for a lunch spot nearby or a great burrito in a new city? foursquare helps you find the best in any area.
Where: Scientific literature and museums on the east coast of the USA. Found even today in public consciousness and outdated dinosaur books. What: Brontosaurus is perhaps the most well known of the sauropod dinosaurs.
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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.
Facebook privacy options untangled
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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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Public Sector
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. The only point of dissent was the data portability provision, but the draft of the "bill" was made public on Facebook and Twitter , and the public is called to make their feelings known by voting for or against it.
Social networking "Bill of Rights" released
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Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City.