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In Design , Technology on 15 July 2011. When Google+ launched last week, one of the most discussed features was Circles. In case you haven’t read a single blog, Tweet, or Google+ post in the last week (and yet, somehow stumbled into this dark corner of the internet), Circles is Google’s way of allowing you to group people. You can put anyone into a one or more Circles such as “Friends”, “Acquaintances”, “Co-workers”, “People I Eat Brunch With”, “Cyclists”, etc. And you have to put a person in at least one group.
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Digital Web Magazine - How To Build A Facebook Application
Facebook , as you’ve probably noticed, is everywhere. And with that ubiquity comes a massive audience just waiting for your web app. Whether you’re looking to make things easier for your current users, or you have the perfect idea for a Facebook-only application, there are a few things you’ll need to know to get started. Getting Started FBML is basically the HTML you know and love, so we’ll include a heading and a stylesheet.Updated : The benefits of being on Facebook are fairly obvious by now: you can connect to friends and family and share things with them no matter where they are — and it’s all free! This quasi-public space is also owned and controlled by a corporate entity, however, and it has its own views about what kinds of behavior should be allowed . That inevitably raises questions about whether the site is engaging in what amounts to censorship — questions that resurfaced this week after a page belonging to film critic Roger Ebert disappeared, and a group of protesters in Britain found their content blocked. Who is watching the watchmen? Ebert triggered a storm of criticism on Monday with his response to the death of Jackass co-star Ryan Dunn, who was killed in a single-vehicle accident early Monday morning. Police said that speed was likely a factor in the crash, and there have also been suggestions that the TV actor may have been drinking before the incident.
The downside of Facebook as a public space: Censorship — Tech News and Analysis
Path co-founder Dave Morin talks about the importance of maintaining quality networks, and believe that while different, Twitter offers a powerful “interaction network”. Or, in Path parlance, a “With Graph”. Using With, the friends who you tag most often quickly populate your With Graph by rising to the top of your profile. The idea is eventually to give these friends “special benefits” as well — think: friendship levels and badges with more to come, Morin says. To be clear, Path remains the main focus of the team. With will remain a side project (unless, of course, it explodes in popularity like, say, Twitter).
With Full-On Twitter Integration, Path Launches A Second App
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. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More Alliance Health Networks , a company that operates health condition-specific social networks, has raised $11 million in new funding led by New World Ventures with participation from Physic Ventures, Highway 12 Ventures and Epic Ventures. This brings Alliance’s total funding to $18 million.
Alliance Health Raises $11 Million For Condition-Specific Social Networks
Facebook is accepting applications from engineers to join a new desktop software team at its Seattle office. The responsibilities of the “Software Engineer, Desktop Software” position we noticed last week include creating Mac and/or Windows desktops apps and building server-side APIs. Based on several trends and the company’s principles we believe the new team could be working to develop software that reports media usage, such as music listening or video watching habits, so that users could easily share this info with friends.
Facebook’s New Desktop Software Team Could Build Apps to Report Media Consumption
TwitPic is a website that allows users to easily post pictures to the Twitter microblogging and social media service. TwitPic is often used by citizen journalists to upload and distribute pictures in near real-time as an event is taking place. TwitPic was launched in 2008 by Noah Everett. In an interview with Mixergy, Noah Everett revealed that he had been offered a price within the region of 10 million US dollars for his company but he declined the offer.
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There have been signs over the past few months that Google is feeling the pressure to step up its social efforts — the +1 features it announced a week ago being just one of them. But the clearest indication yet is a memo from newly-minted CEO Larry Page that told employees their bonuses are effectively on the line if the company’s social efforts don’t work. The Google co-founder may see it as a carrot, but many of his employees are likely to see it as a stick — and you can’t threaten people into being social. In a nutshell, Page’s memo (the existence of which we have confirmed independently), tells staff that 25 percent of their annual bonuses are at risk if Google’s social efforts aren’t successful. It’s positioned as an incentive, but given the company’s track record with social features, odds are that staffers will lose rather than win.
Dear Google: You Can’t Threaten People Into Being Social: Tech News and Analysis «
Facebook Comments: What’s Easy Isn’t Always Right
Editor’s note: Jordan Kretchmer is the founder of Livefyre , a realtime commenting and conversation platform for publishers and online communities. He doesn’t think much of Facebook comments. In this guest post, he explains why.Implicit Web Based Social Networks on Web Forums
Two things will add noise to the data, though. First, there is inherent randomness in a forum like the PF, since folks get on at different times and may or may not see threads that they would respond to (and respond at different points in the discussion). Second, it seems like there is a bit more anonymity in a scientific discussion forum, versus the social networking sites like Facebook. That anonymity almost makes the contacts less "personal", but not fundamentally so. Ideally I think that such tools are best if they extend across multiple sites. Some kind of open API would be good like RSS feeds.Stories from the natural world are not limited to undisturbed, wide open spaces. Even in the densest cities in the world it's presence can still be felt. From it's inspirational, breathtaking beauty, to it's relentless, altering, destructiveness; take a moment to explore our complex and evolving relationship with nature. It truly is a sight to behold.