This is the A2SM Link Post for December 8th through December 9th:
- The Day Has Come: Facebook Pushes People to Go Public – Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines.
- The Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins – Today Facebook finally started to roll out a new set of privacy controls. These tools, many months in the making, are designed to help simplify the site’s notoriously confusing privacy options. But alongside them Facebook is also rolling out a “Transition Tool” that promotes Everyone updates as the new default. In other words, Facebook is giving up its reputation as a ‘private’ social network — where the default is to restrict access to everything that is shared — in favor of something that can challenge Twitter head on.
- Twitter "Tweets From Strangers" Problem Persists | WebProNews – The good news, in terms of Twitter's performance and reliability, is that the fail whale hasn't made an appearance today. The bad is that random people's tweets are showing up in the timelines of non-followers, and employees may not have much of an idea why.
- Twitter Blog: A Tool for Business – Today, Citysearch has integrated Twitter into their service so local businesses can display Tweets right within their Citysearch profile, and customers viewing the profile can even Tweet back right from there. Potential customers can make smarter decisions with the fresh information being shared with them in real time, and businesses can manage closer connections with audiences across the Web.
- Facebook’s New Privacy Features: A Complete Guide – Facebook’s been evolving right before our very eyes. It started back in March, when Facebook rolled out a new homepage design and redesigned Facebook Pages. At the same time, they started announcing changes to open up the platform: public profiles, profile fans, public status updates, real-time search, and earlier this morning, Facebook Lite. Facebook’s been busy.
- Top 10 Google Plugins For Wordpress Users. Increase Your Blogs Productivity – If you’re running a website using the popular Wordpress blogging platform and you’re a big fan of that little silicon valley company “Google,” there are several plugins you can install on your blog that will allow you do do everything from track your blogs visitors with Google Analytics, to embedding Google Adsense into your blog and RSS feeds and even Map Out Directions among other uses. This is our list of the Top 10 Google Plugins For Wordpress
. - It’s Privacy Day at Facebook – Today, the company plans to start asking all 350 million of its users to review and update their settings as they roll out the new simplified privacy interface.
- User Data Easier Than Ever to Phish on Facebook, New Study Shows – If results of a new study on Facebook user behavior is any indication, around half of us would answer "yes" to those questions, depending on how old we are. The study also shows that Facebook users are becoming more lax with protecting their personal data than they were three years ago. What do these results signify in light of recent concerns about user privacy on the world's largest social network? And now that some user data will be indexed by Google, will users have to adjust what information they share?
