2009

Link Post for December 21st

December 22, 2009 By Seth Goldstein 2 Comments

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 21st:

2009 As Told In Google Wave – Love it or hate it, Google Wave is proving to be a great way for people to express themselves creatively in the form of videos. We’ve seen it with Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting. We’ve seen it with the Declaration of Independance. And now we have a 2009 year-in-review Google Wave video.
MySpace Reaches Out To Upset Imeem Users: Your Playlists Will Soon Be Resurrected – In the two weeks since it acquired imeem in a firesale, MySpace has been met with waves of frustration from outraged users who blame the company for shutting down the troubled music service. MySpace didn’t really have anything to do with imeem’s sudden shutdown (it would have closed shop anyway), but most users don’t care — they just want their imeem playlists and free streaming music back. Today, MySpace is reaching out to these disgruntled imeem users to let them know that their playlists will soon be restored, brought back to life with free streams from MySpace Music
Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Industry. Finally. -
5 Ways Social Media Changed Fashion in 2009 – It’s safe to say that the fashion industry has adopted social media as a marketing platform to reach their customers online and reignite brand passion and customer loyalty.
The Year in Review Captured On a Google Wave [VIDEO] – From the same folks at Whirled Interactive who brought us the excellently funny “Pulp Wave Fiction” comes another intelligent use of Google Wave as a video production medium — this time it’s used to encapsulate the year in news and social media.
Keep Up With Your Fave Random House Author on Your iPhone – This morning, Random House Publishing Group announced that it has collaborated with Mobile Roadie to launch a trio of free iPhone apps that will serve to hook up fans with three of their fave RH authors: Steve Barry [iTunes Link], Sophie Kinsella [iTunes Link] and Karen Marie Moning [iTunes Link].
Seesmic for Android Adds Twitter Search, Lists and Trending Topics – Last month when popular Twitter client Seesmic launched an Android version, one of the few omissions we noted was support for Twitter search and trending topics. In a new 1.1 version update for Android users, Seesmic now includes Twitter search and trending capabilities as well as support for Twitter Lists.
Youtu.be: Because YouTube Needs Its Own URL Shortener Too – Google subsidiary YouTube has joined the URL shortening bandwagon. It has just announced youtu.be, the official short link of the world’s largest video site.

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Link Post for December 15th through December 16th

December 17, 2009 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 15th through December 16th:

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Google, Bing Continue to Bleed Yahoo of Search Share – Search Engines from eWeek – Google and Microsoft Bing saw their U.S. search engine market shares rise while Yahoo's plot continued to fall through November 2009, according to statistics comScore released Dec. 15.
Sency real-time search engine gains some momentum, founder still abroad — Technically Philly – Sency collects real-time data from Twitter, but differentiates itself from Twitter’s search by filtering spam and pulling the most popular links being shared on the microblogging service. Sency also lets publishers have a very basic, yet customizable widget with real-time search results on their Web sites.
3 New Forms of Search That Google is Working on Now – Google amazed us last week with 5 fantastic demos of innovations like Google Goggles and near instant speech-to-text mobile translation. That was before the company showed off its new real-time search, a key problem it solved with grace while its competitors floundered.
The Associated Press: Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search – Beginning Thursday, Yahoo will mine the short messages posted on Twitter to find fresher information about hot topics.
Now, Facebook Lets Users Hide Friends From People Who Are Not Logged In –
Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation – Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner issued in July and most recently by a Norwegian consumer protection agency. We're glad to see Facebook is attempting to respond to those privacy criticisms with these changes, which are going live this evening. Unfortunately, several of the claimed privacy "improvements" have created new and serious privacy problems for users of the popular social network service.
SmartBlog On Social Media » Reality setting in: What Google’s real-time search means to businesses – Twitter made us see what could be possible with real-time search. Bing made it mainstream when they integrated Twitter into their results. But now, the standard, the behemoth of search and all things information — Google — has made real-time a critical piece of its trusted results. Reality is setting in — and things have changed in a big way.
Facebook’s Great Betrayal – Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil.
What Google’s Real-Time Search Means to SEO, PPC & Reputation Management | WebProNews – It seems that over the course of the entire year, we've been waiting for Google to get real-time search. Now it's here. If you have ever had a hard time finding a direct relationship between social media and search engine marketing, it doesn't get any more direct than this. Real-time search results (from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other sources) right in regular SERPs.

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Link Post for December 8th through December 9th

December 9, 2009 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

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
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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?

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Link Post for December 6th

December 7, 2009 By Seth Goldstein Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for December 6th:

Web Community Photoshops a Happy Memory [PICS] – A Reddit Member’s mother died. The community comes together to help him out with a lasting memory.
Appvent Calendar: Free iPhone Game Every Day Till Christmas – Last week, we wrote about 24ways, an advent calendar for web geeks. Today we’ve found another cool advent calendar, this time aimed at iPhone app fans. iPhone developer Blacksmith Games is presenting the Appvent Calendar!
10 iPhone Apps to Help You Survive the Holidays -
We know it’s not Photoshopped: Wrecking ball smashed van in New York City – but is it real? – Shiny Objects – Time to play “Guess the authenticity!” the latest soon-to-be viral video shows a van getting housed on a New York City corner. It wanders seemingly accidentally through a construction zone to meet the business end of a wrecking ball (can a ball have an end?).
Car Flipped By Wrecking Ball, Real or Fake? [Viral Videos] – A recent video on YouTube, which shows a car hit by a large wrecking ball, is fast approaching viral status on the site.
Ron Livingston Sues Wikipedia Detractor for Saying He’s Gay – Search Google for Ron Livingston, the man of Office Space (and Sex and the City) fame, and you’ll find IMDB links for information on his acting career. You’ll also come across a Wikipedia page on the movie and TV star, with inaccurate details on his personal life. And that’s the problem.Since May, Livingston has continually fallen victim to an anonymous Wikipedia (Wikipedia) detractor who continually edits the entry to read that the actor is in a gay relationship.
How To Find Those Red Balloons – This morning DARPA launched ten red balloons across the U.S. in a Network Challenge to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the precursor to the Internet, Arpanet. The first team to correctly locate all ten balloons will win a $40,000 prize.
TC50 DemoPit Startup LIFEmee Lets You Record And Share Your Entire Life Online – LIFEmee allows you to store, manage and share all significant aspects and events of your life: Your daily health condition, relationships, jobs, schools, possessions, hobbies, family members, pictures, notes etc. etc. The main idea is to give users a platform for organizing their lives online by collecting and structuring this kind of information for lifetime use. Users can not only review all data they fed into their “lifestream” (all data aligned along a time line) in retrospect but also lay out their plans for the future. The information can be shared or kept strictly private.
Favrd Shuts Down – Not Twitter’s Last Laugh (Thank you, Textism) – Favrd, a site which aggregated the most popular starred tweets, has closed down. The site was a favorite of Twitter humorists, people who use Twitter mainly to express their wit. Favrd was the first of its kind to repurpose Twitter favorites (stars) into an aggregation site, where users could see who had “faved” their tweets, view tweets with 3 or more faves as a real-time feed, and check the most faved tweets in a 24-hour period on the Leaderboard. It was kind of like the Techmeme of funny tweets.
Getting it right and getting it wrong with the new media – The internet (the blogosphere to be precise) is still a bit of a mystery to many in tech and entertainment. It’s weird to think that companies whose job it is to reach tech-savvy consumers aren’t using this tool correctly, but it’s also no secret that the biggest and most influential companies are often the slowest to adapt. At any rate, they’re learning, but some are learning faster than others. Here I chronicle just a few standout cases.