Nursing. Sneak peek at Strings: A social tracker with a twist | Web Crawl. This week we got a sneak peek at a new social tracking site that's launching a little later this year. Called Strings, it's made up of tools that let you passively share your various on- and offline activities with others online, all in the hopes of both getting and giving recommendations from its online community. In many ways Strings feels a lot like FriendFeed. For example, just like FriendFeed you're able to tie Strings into to various services you're using like Amazon, Netflix, and social-bookmarking tools so that it can implicitly share information about what you're doing on each of those services with others.
And like FriendFeed, this information can be tracked and filtered depending on what type of content it is, and what group of friends it's coming from. Where it differs though, is that this data feed begins with complete anonymity; nobody ever has to know it's you who is feeding the site. In the meantime though, there's work to be done. Facebook Launching New Real-Time Homepage. Update: You can now follow Mashable on Facebook at the new Mashable Facebook page. Facebook is making a host of product announcements today, the most significant of which is a renovation of the News Feed that users see when they login. Starting next week, the News Feed will be moving to a real-time format, versus the current updates that happen “every 10-15 minutes” according to the company. The changes will also include refinements to Facebook’s filtering options to make it easier to see content from only specific users in this new, real-time view.
Facebook has already been experimenting with real-time via the “Live Feed” tab that users currently can access from their homepage. Here's what the new version will look like: In other changes, Facebook is overhauling its Pages system to make them more like profiles, with the addition of status updates from the page owner. A load of Twitter - Times Online. Google Warns of Privacy Issues on the Social Web - ReadWriteWeb. In a recent paper about social privacy Google researchers caution that the expansion of the social Web and our growing involvement with it is compromising our privacy while offering the false sense of security that we act in the privacy of our own social circle.
Specifically, the paper suggests three areas where the social Web compromises user privacy. 1. Lack of control over activity streams According to the paper, there are two primary ways in which lack of control over activity streams may compromise our privacy; the lack of control we have over events going into our activity streams (examples given are Facebook Beacon and coComment), and the lack of control we have when it comes to who can see our activity stream as is possible with Google Reader. 2.
The authors define unwelcome linkage as occurring when links on the Internet reveal information about you that you had not intended to reveal, for instance trackbacks and accidental linkage. 3. The Google paper suggests various solutions: 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community | chrisbrogan.com. Do you like learning about magic tricks? To me, the best magicians are the ones who share what they know. Penn and Teller are like that. They love deconstructing tricks in front of you? So, do you want to learn some blogging secrets from me? If I say they’re secrets, you’ll treasure them more, but the thing is, I share this with you daily. 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community Starter Moves Failing that, posts with numbers seem to work.
A picture per blog post has been my trick for a while. Technical Stuff A nice clean blogging theme goes a long way. The Bonus Round Share your posts politely via social platforms. Need more? Your Ideas What would you add to the list? (Oh, and that’s a secret, too). Photo credit, Trials and Errors ChrisBrogan.com runs on the Genesis Framework The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress. Become a StudioPress Affiliate. Twitter Means Business: Pro reportage meets social-media insight. Social Media in 2009: Our Predictions and Desires - ReadWriteWeb. Social Cataloging of Books, Movies, TV Shows, Albums, Video Game. Zentact Might Be the Best Social Networking Idea This Year. With the rise of social networking, many of us have hundreds if not thousands of online contacts. But how many of them do we actually keep up with? Probably not many. That’s the problem Zentact attempts to solve through a new service that keeps track of all your contacts across email and social networks and alerts you to relevant opportunities to reconnect as you browse the Web.
For example, let’s say Pete Cashmore is in my address book. You can imagine this being applied to much more real-world situations – if you tag someone with a more obscure interest – say, fly fishing - you’ll get an alert to contact them whenever you happen to stumble upon a relevant page, anywhere on the Web. On its website, Zentact lets you manage all your contacts, either by importing your email address book or adding them manually. Zentact is founded by the same team that built and sold MyBlogLog to Yahoo.