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A2SM Podcast #52 – 52 Flavors of Social Media

March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In This Episode:

Google

Google adding e-books to Android Market

Gmail Account deletion and How to back up your Gmail account (video)

Facebook

Seth uses new iFrame technique for customizing Facebook Business pages and finds a big problem — Pages won’t show up on https connections only http connections. Can we say #fail?!

Facebook To Share Users’ Home Addresses, Phone Numbers With External Sites
How to stop Facebook from sharing your phone number with strangers
How Well Does Facebook Protect Your Identity?

Facebook Like Button Takes Over Share Button Functionality

Facebook Comments Plugin Upgrades – What You Need To Know

Facebook Linked To One In Five Divorces In US

Twitter

Twitter Targets Business With New Ad Platform

JPMorgan fund eyes 10% stake in Twitter

Apple

Consumer Reports Confirms Death Grip In Verizon iPhone
Antennagate 2: Verizon iPhone 4 Drops Calls With “Death Grip” [REPORT]

iPad2 Review: New features and implications

Picks:

Neal:
1. Download the Entire Archive of Nasa’s Astronomy Picture of the Day with One Command
2. Anti-Pick of Week: Now you can SPAM EVERYONE on Twitter with DMs.

Seth:
Convore
The A2SM Discussion on Convore

Jody:
ucubd.com

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:02:54 — 57.6MB)

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Link Post for July 9th through July 11th

July 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for July 9th through July 11th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks – What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port? Quite a lot, with the right software. Learn how to encrypt your work, run whole systems, rescue Windows, and customize your thumb drive with these USB-geared tricks.
  • MediaPost Publications Mobile Devices Continue To Take Market Share 07/09/2010 – Advertisers wondering when mobile will catch on might want to take a big breath and hang on. Two separate reports released Thursday reveal that mobile device use, from smartphones to tablets, continues to increase.
  • Former Googler And White House Staffer Katie Jacobs Stanton Heads To Twitter – Twitter has made another key hire today: former Google vet and White House and State Department staffer Katie Jacobs Stanton. According to Stanton’s Tweet stream, she will be leaving her role at the State Department for greener pastures at Twitter. She will be based out of the company’s California office.
  • Why Facebook Killed A $100 Million Baby – This evening Facebook announced that they will officially kill the company’s gift shop on August 1st of this year. Currently generating tens of millions of dollars for the company a year, one has to wonder why the company would take such dramatic steps. Facebook regularly touts how few developers run each segment of their business, but even if the company was generating tens of millions on a couple of developers, apparently more can be generated with the small gifts team working on other projects. So what does this really mean?
  • Rich text signatures – Official Gmail Blog – Rich text signatures have long been one of our most widely requested features. Some of you have tried your own solutions, including Greasemonkey scripts, browser plugins, and even using canned responses from Gmail Labs. Others have simply lived with frustration of not being able to change the colors or font size of your signature, or insert images and links. Either way, you'll be happy to know that today we're launching the ability to write your own rich text signatures right in Gmail.
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Link Post for May 5th

May 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for May 5th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

  • Major University Dumps Gmail Over Security Concerns – The University of California – Davis has stopped using Gmail for its 30,000-member staff and faculty body. The university was trying Gmail for faculty and staff with plans to roll out service to the entire campus. But school officials say this email system isn’t secure or private enough to meet their standards.
  • Skype Will Launch Group Video Chat and Updated Calling Plans « Black Web 2.0 – Everyone’s favorite Internet calling service Skype will be conducting a public beta test for a new group video chat function. This will allow up to five people participate in a video call at the same time. While this isn’t something that’s never been done before, it will definitely be awesome to have and was actually one of the most requested features from current Skype users
  • Here It Is: Google’s Kick-Ass Chrome Speed Test Video –
  • Google Search Gets a Major Overhaul [PICS] – The new version of Google has some major differences, but the changes can be broken down into three groups: design changes, the addition of a left-hand navigation panel and a more “unified” search experience.
  • Facebook Chat Down for Maintenance Following Privacy Lapse – Facebook Chat is now down for maintenance. The feature was presumably disabled following a report that exposed a Facebook security bug that allowed users to access and view friends’ live chats, friend requests and friends in common.
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Link Post for March 31st through April 1st

April 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 31st through April 1st. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Six ways Gmail revolutionized e-mail – CNN.com – Thursday marks the sixth birthday of Google's pioneering e-mail service: Gmail.
  • Our Choice: The Funniest April Fools Jokes – It’s that date again, folks. If you’ve seen an amazing new service or something that sounds too good to be true, it probably is — very few companies take April 1 seriously. Reports of April Fools jokes are pouring in; as we do every year, we’ll mention the ones that are either very funny or amazingly clever.
  • April Fools 2010 From Google & Others – Today is a worst/best day for journalists or bloggers, depending on your worldview: April Fools Day. Many technology companies come out and try to fool people with fake or funny news. Below is a collection of, what appears to be, April Fools Day hoaxes from Google and other search related companies for the day. I do hope to continue to update it throughout the day.
  • Q&A: Personal vs. Professional Branding in Social MEdia – Dan Schwabel is not only a personal branding expert, he’s someone I’ve come to know and respect over the years…and definitely someone I consider a friend. We recently sat down to discuss Engage and the resulting interaction culminated in a wonderful discussion that explored the state of professional and personal branding in the era of new media.
  • TweetDeck Taps TwitVid For Video Sharing, Replacing 12seconds – TweetDeck is switching its default video Tweeting platform today, from 12seconds to TwitVid. TwitVid.com will serve as the video service across all existing TweetDeck products, as well as all new products released by TweetDeck in 2010
  • Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation – Today, Unvarnished makes its beta debut. It’s essentially Yelp for LinkedIn: any user can create an online profile for a professional and submit anonymous reviews. You can claim your profile, but unlike LinkedIn, you have to accept every post, warts and all. And once the profile is up there’s no taking it down.
  • YouTube Blog: Latest Changes to Video Page: New Playlist Experience, Integrated Comments & More – The video page overhaul that's underway now is one of the biggest redesigns in YouTube history. It's been a month since we offered a sneak peek of the new look and functionality, and in that time we've been gathering your feedback, looking at data, and tweaking elements to ensure that the page is as clean and useful as it can be.
  • YouTube Blog: The Video Page Gets a Makeover – From the Queen of England to the queen of your 'hood, from aspiring filmmakers to Hollywood studios, from high school graduation videos to citizen reports of revolutionary moments in Iran, it all has a home on YouTube. This creates a really big challenge: how do we design a site that reflects so many different users, experiences and videos? This is a question we've thought about a lot since we launched in 2005. The result of some of this thinking (some might say over-thinking) is a video page chock-full of features that reflect a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but can feel cluttered and a little overwhelming. We've spent a lot of time over the last 10 months asking ourselves some tough questions about this page and posing some of those questions to you in blog posts, roundtable discussions, one-on-one conversations with the community and even on forums like our Product Ideas for YouTube page
  • YouTube To Roll Out New Design For All Video Pages Today – A YouTube partner just forwarded us an e-mail he received from the Google company, stating that all videos will be transitioned to the newly designed page some time today.
  • Less Than One Third Of Tweets Come From The United States, Study Says – Paris-based Semiocast, which helps brands understand and interact with real-time Web services, has again done a study on Twitter usage. After finding that only 50% of tweets are in English, based on an analysis of 2.8 million tweets, the company has now looked at nearly five times as many Twitter messages in order to gain more insight on the increased international presence of the popular micro-sharing service.
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Link Post for March 30th through March 31st

March 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 30th through March 31st. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Mobile Firefox Comes to Android (Sort of) – Fennec, the mobile version of the Firefox web browser, is now available in an early build designed for Android handsets thanks to a fan-compiled download posted on an Android developers forum. And by early, we mean unofficial, pre-alpha, device-specific and downright buggy. But for anyone interested in mobile browser developments, this port is an interesting sneak peek into the future of Firefox's mobile plans.
  • Global Pulse 2010 Wants Your Solutions to Global Challenges – Global Pulse 2010 is a completely online virtual event running through tomorrow where you can participate in a global conversation whose stated goal is to “create innovative solutions to the most pressing social issues of our time.” Sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Global Pulse 2010 is also being supported by the U.S. Departments of State, Education, Commerce, and Health and Human Services.
  • Judge: Isohunt Must Remove Infringing Content – One of the largest BitTorrent search engines in the world, Isohunt, has been ordered by a US judge to remove all infringing content from the site. The ruling follows similar ruling against torrent tracker Mininova which has lost a great amount of traffic after complying with the order to remove copyright-infringing links from the site.
  • Board Games on the iPad: Oh Yes, This is Going to be Big – TUAW has a preview of an iPad application called Game Table. It costs 99 cents, and it lets you play classic board games, such as Chess, Poker or Checkers, on the iPad.<br />
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    The beauty of its approach is the fact that it’s not really a game – it just gives you the necessary components and the mechanics to play a variety of games. And, when you think of it, for many users this app (or similar apps like it) might be the killer app that makes the Apple iPad worth purchasing.
  • 10 Amazing YouTube Magic Trick Videos – Who doesn’t love magic? Whether you’re obsessed with finding out “how they did that,” or you just like to gaze with child-like wonder at a good trick, YouTube has become a wealthy repository of illusion.
  • Google Earth Helps Deputy Make Arrest – Google became true-blue crime-fighting tool for one Florida Panhandle deputy this week. The law man, Deputy Gregory Barnes, recently made use of Google Earth to arrest a man charged with illegally dumping his one-ton boat.
  • iPad, Meet "Star Trek" – In Star Trek, members of the crew are carrying a tablet-like device called the PADD, or Personal Access Display Device. It comes in many shapes and flavors — there’s even a horizontal one. And, circa 2151, the device that was in common use looked pretty much like the thing we’ll be frantically testing this weekend: the Apple iPad.
  • Gmail Adds OAuth Support for Safer 3rd Party Sign-ins – Google announced the addition of OAuth support in Gmail in a blog post today, which is a highly positive move that allows you to give third party applications access to the contents on your email without having to give them your password. You may be familiar with the term from Twitter, who added OAuth support back in April of last year.
  • Automattic Announces VaultPress Security Plugin – (Via @glenngabe)
  • Facebook Squeezes Digg Into A New Business Model – While I personally love using Digg to find my news content, the majority of the internet is perfectly satisfied finding content through their friends. While Digg is in the process of rolling out a new version of their site, Facebook’s decision to release a “like button for the internet” could significantly impact Digg. Combine that with their previously released share analytics and share button, and you can see how Digg is getting squeezed into a new business model.
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Link Post for March 23rd through March 24th

March 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 23rd through March 24th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Building a Facebook Game? Try the Facebook Game Idea Generator – If you’ve ever played a Facebook game, dreamed of making one, or just wanted to name one, you have got to try the “Facebook Game Idea Generator”. It’s a tongue-in-cheek application that presents you with a series of Facebook game ideas one after another, probably by randomizing the most popular elements of existing social games. It’s more of a name generator than anything else, but it’s worth a laugh.
  • 5 Facebook-Related Crime-Fighting Wins – In light of the fact several U.S. (and other) federal agencies are using Facebook/ social media sites to lure and track suspects or known criminals, we wanted to give a sampling of some of the ways that, in the past year or so, Facebook has somehow played a role in helping authorities catching criminals and troublemakers. Arrests are often due as a result of suspects’ use, or a private citizen’s use, of Facebook. (Note: Facebook, the company, is by no means responsible for any of these situations.)
  • Could Facebook and Twitter Become Paparazzi Platforms? – Whether you follow celebrity gossip or not, you might already know that Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock’s hubby Jesse James reputedly cheated on her, and that her public Facebook profile just got updated to “single”. Is this something she should have done? Should stars reveal less or more about themselves in social media? Could social media become a source of details for paparazzi?
  • Are You Afraid of Loosing Control in Social Media? | Social Conversations –
  • Facebook Feeling More Privacy Pain in Europe – GigaOM – In the latest privacy-related skirmish between European countries and social networks, Swiss and German privacy authorities have told the Associated Press that they are looking at how Facebook — and possibly Google and other sites as well — allows its users to upload email addresses, photos and other content that either belongs to or includes people who haven’t given their consent to appear on the service. According to the AP story, this would likely include uploading pictures without getting the permission of everyone who appears in the photo, and could also affect the automated importing of email addresses that Facebook, Google and other social networks provide as a way of finding your friends when you join a new service.
  • Mobile Milestone: Data Surpasses Voice Traffic – GigaOM – Mobile data bits traveling around the world outnumbered voice traffic for the first time during December of 2009, according to wireless equipment vendor Ericsson. Worryingly, that data traffic was generated by an estimated 400 million smartphones set against 4.6 billion mobile subscribers making voice calls. What happens when everyone has a smartphone?
  • Hacked? Google Corporate Pages Temporarily Switch to Chinese – Google’s corporate bios suddenly switched to Chinese this morning, the Guardian reports. It only affected users connecting from some areas, and the change was live only for a short amount of time, but the screenshots prove that Google may have indeed been hacked – again.
  • Etacts Transforms Your Gmail into a Contact Management Hub – Etacts, which just presented earlier today at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, is an attempt to bring advanced customer relationship management to your personal contacts list via a few simple features and a slick Gmail integration.
  • Exclusive: Digg’s iPhone App Launches [SCREENSHOTS] – Digg’s much anticipated native application for iPhone is set to make its debut tomorrow, Mashable has learned. We’ve obtained a few screenshots, which you can check out below.
  • Twestival Global 2010 Raises Funds for Social Good Tomorrow – One year ago the first Twestival event brought together social media savvy and social good-minded folks in over 100 cities together to raise money and awareness for charity:water. Tomorrow kicks off the second annual Twestival Global, this time reaching more than 175 cities and bringing together thousands in support of education. All proceeds will be donated to Concern Worldwide, an international, non-governmental humanitarian organization dedicated to reducing suffering and eliminating poverty since 196
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Calacanis on Buzz – 30 days in

March 6, 2010 By 2 Comments

Jason Calacanis, the venerable founder of Mahalo and such properties as Engadget and Gizmodo, in is latest newsletter shared some very interesting points about Google’s Buzz. I have to admit I agree with him on most if not all of them.

Many of you have asked me what I think of Google Buzz 30 days later. Here are my bullet points:

a) I’m spending slightly more time in Google Buzz than Facebook after 30 days.

b) I’m getting 20-150 comments on Google Buzz compared to 0-15 responses on Facebook.

c) Google Buzz has STILL not figured out a way to mute “super routers” like Scoble, Leo Laporte and myself. THEY MUST DO THIS.

d) Google Buzz has HIDDEN the hide this conversation key in a drop down menu. THIS IS ABSURD. It needs to be right there in the menubar so you can hide a thread in one click quickly.

e) Google Buzz MUST create a dedicated interface for Buzz outside of GMAIL. http://Buzz.google.com should be an experience that is 100% dedicated to the Buzz experience.

f) Google Buzz MUST cut a $25M check to Mark Pincus of Zynga for a six month exclusive to FarmVille2 to play inside of Buzz once they have (e) completed.

Bottom line: Google Buzz is winning the uber users like Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte–that means they CAN displace–or cut deeply into–someone like Facebook. Google needs to triple their investment in Buzz and do it now. They should spend on Buzz as if it going to have 500M global users because it has that potential.

Dagger to the heart of Zuckerberg move: In fact, taking out Zynga right now would be a killer move. Facebook has been trying to buy Zynga for the past year from what I understand… Google should just put up $2B and call it a day. Google buys Zynga and Facebook is fracked.

I like Buzz. Although, I haven’t gotten into it totally like I have with Twitter and Facebook. This is mainly due to the super/uber users like Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble and good old Jason Calacanis. Now don’t get me wrong. I want to hear from them and I’m a huge fan, but it would be nice to be able to put them in a folder and read their posts in small doses, otherwise it gets a bit overwhelming.

Another issue I have with Buzz is how it takes up storage space in my Gmail account. I’m a Gmail power user and use it for everything. I’m getting close to having to buy space from Google and I don’t need Buzz helping me get to that point.

In the end, will I stop using Facebook or Twitter and go only to Buzz,  probably not. But what do you think?

What are your thoughts on Google Buzz? Do you like it? Post your thoughts in the comments.

Seth Goldstein is the owner of Goldstein Media LLC a Web Design and Internet Marketing firm in suburban Philadelphia. Having been a journalist for more than 4 years prior to his adventures on the Web, Seth is always looking for new ways to put his journalism training to good use. Seth is the co-editor of A2SM and the co-host of the A2SM podcast. You can check out his personal blog at www.sethgoldstein.net and his company’s site at www.goldsteinmedia.com. Seth’s on Twitter as @sethgoldstein.

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Link Post for February 12th through February 15th

February 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for February 12th through February 15th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

  • Adobe Flash and AIR Coming Soon to Android [VIDEOS] – Flash games and AIR apps are making the jump to mobile, starting with Google’s Android platform. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe has unveiled AIR and Flash 10.1 for Android, both of which should arrive in the first half of 2010.
  • Top 10 Twitter Topics This Week [TWEET CHART] –
  • Free Beats Premium in Online Dating Faceoff – Valentine’s Day has passed, and now that we have sifted through the roses (and the heartbreak) of the year’s most love-obsessed holiday, it’s time to return to the real world and all of the dating that it involves.
  • LEAKED: Windows Mobile 7’s Interface [PICS] – In a few hours, Microsoft is expected to reveal Windows Mobile 7 to the world at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Some leaked pictures of the interface have spoiled its debut, though.
  • Samsung Wave Brings Another Mobile OS to the Table –
  • HOW TO: Integrate Google Buzz Into Your WordPress Blog –
  • Work Smart: Mastering Your Social Media Life | Fast Company – When you're active on the Web, keeping up with all your online accounts can feel like a full-time job. You want your high school friends to find you on Facebook, your co-workers to follow you on Twitter, and business associates to find you on LinkedIn. But there are only so many hours in the day, and too many Web sites to check in and update. The good news is that you don't have to hire a personal assistant to update all your profiles. With the right strategy, you can manage multiple accounts with minimal effort
  • Official Gmail Blog: Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback – We've had plenty of feature requests, and some direct feedback. In particular there's been concern from some people who thought their contacts were being made public without their knowledge (in particular the lists of people they follow, and the people following them). In addition, others felt they had too little control over who could follow them and were upset that they lacked the ability to block people who didn't yet have public profiles from following them.
  • Critics Say Google Invades Privacy With New Service – NYTimes.com – When Google introduced Buzz — its answer to Facebook and Twitter — it hoped to get the service off to a fast start. New users of Buzz, which was added to Gmail on Tuesday, found themselves with a ready-made network of friends automatically selected by the company based on the people that each user communicated with most frequently through Google’s e-mail and chat services.
  • Sergey Brin Might Do Google Buzz – Want to follow Google cofounder Sergey Brin on Google’s new microblogging service, Google Buzz? Brin says he might join in the future.
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Link Post for February 9th

February 9, 2010 By 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for February 9th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

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Link Post for February 8th

February 8, 2010 By 2 Comments

This is the A2SM Link Post for February 8th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

  • StopTweet: A Customizable Spam Blocker for Twitter – We've just found a new, completely free app that will zap those bots and bad users in just one click. It's fully customizable, so you can tell the blocker what you personally consider to be a spam account. And you can choose to simply unfollow those users, block them or report the accounts to Twitter, as well – again all with just one click. StopTweet is definitely one of the more useful apps we've seen lately, and it also helps us all do our part to clean up the Twitter universe.
  • 5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media – As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the experts at this year’s TED conference will have their sights set on peeling back the hype and getting at the core of what social technology has in store for this year and beyond.
  • Multitouch Update Coming to the Droid Soon – There’s some good news and some bad news. First, the good news: sources tell Engadget that multitouch browsing will be added to the Motorola Droid in its next software update.
    Multitouch was one of the most requested features on Android (Android), at least until the Nexus One gained multitouch browsing last week.
  • 5 Levels of Effective Communication in the Social Media Age – In the era of social media, our networks are much larger than they have ever been, and we have more ways to communicate with those in them. Even if you are not very active on Facebook or Twitter, my guess is that your sphere of communication has expanded significantly in recent years. Who you communicate with and how you communicate has changed radically. This new connected era brings both opportunities and challenges.
  • HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features – Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends.
  • Super Bowl Ads 2010 [VIDEOS] – YouTube delivered on its promise to upload all the Super Bowl Ads as soon as they aired today, with users voting to choose which one will adorn the YouTube front page on Thursday.
  • Don’t Have Money for a Real iPad? Cut One Out of Paper –
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