This is the A2SM Link Post for December 7th from December 7th to December 7th:
- Facebook Creating Safety Advisory Board – As more and more users sign-up to use Facebook and make it a part of their daily lives, the issue of safety — especially when it comes to children — has become more and more important. To that end, Facebook has just announced the formation of the Facebook Safety Advisory Board as part of its commitment to improve safety on Facebook and across the Web.
- Are Facebook Users Too Friendly For Their Own Good? – The latest research conducted by IT security firm Sophos shows that it’s very easy to convince Facebook users to reveal their personal info to complete strangers.
This is nothing new, mind you — after all, many users see Facebook (facebook) as a possibility to make new friends — but it is worth noting that simply friending someone you know nothing about can result in identity theft.
- Local Small Businesses and Social Media Marketing – Search Engine Watch (SEW) – In the past, some small businesses felt left out of the loop when it came to online marketing. They could put up a Web site to have a presence, but when it came to competing with the likes of the Targets, Walmarts, and Amazons of the world who have the marketing budgets bigger than the GDP of some small third world countries, there wasn't much they could do.
- Top 10 Moments Caught on Google Maps Street View – Urlesque –
- Facebook Connect, One Year Later –
- Tibco: A Twitter Like Service That’s About Subjects More Than People – ReadWriteEnterprise – In Tibco's view, the enterprise is not about the people anymore but the subject and contextual information that relates to a person's job. The value is in decoupling the subject matter from the person so the right information can be found quickly and easily.
- Twitter Rolls Out New Sign-Up API, Citysearch First to Implement [SCREENSHOTS] – According to our sources at Citysearch, Twitter is opening a new Sign-Up API.
Citysearch wrote us to say that the API will "allow local businesses to integrate their existing Twitter presence or create a new account directly from the Citysearch business profile and tweet from their Citysearch profile page." How does this new API relate to Twitter's OAuth feature? What can a Sign-Up API do that OAuth doesn't? Also, how did Citysearch get wind of this development before a general announcement was made?
