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Link Post for April 27th

April 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for April 27th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

  • Facebook vs. The Feds – Facebook – Gawker – Four senators sent Facebook a letter of "concern" over its privacy practices—and warned the social network that federal regulators would likely investigate the company. Congratulations, Facebook. It often takes decades to achieve this level of government scrutiny.
  • Comcast To Launch Tunerfish At TechCrunch Disrupt – What’s Tunerfish? We’re not saying, but we think you will be suitably impressed. The Plaxo team (Comcast acquired Plaxo in 2008) is behind the new product, led by former Plaxo VP of Marketing John McCrea (John’s blog is here). Tunerfish may or may not have something to do with Comcast’s ambitious Fancast plans.
  • Senators Call Out Facebook On ‘Instant Personalization’, Other Privacy Issues – Last week, Facebook launched some major new products, including social plugins, its Like button for the web, and its Open Graph API. It also launched a product that has some serious privacy issues: ”Instant Personalization”, which automatically hands over some of your data to certain third-party sites as soon as you visit them, without any action required on your part. I’ve previously discussed at length why I think this could lead to a major backlash. And now four Democratic US Senators — Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Mark Begich and Al Franken — are calling on Facebook to change its policies.
  • Google Earth Arrives Inside Google Maps on the Web – Google Maps – Lifehacker – Windows/Mac: Now you can navigate the world's terrain, great cities' buildings, and your neighborhood's restaurants in 3D, without having to install a hefty separate application. Google Earth has arrived in Maps in a new "Earth" view, and its pretty great.
  • View Thru Displays the URL Behind the Shrunken URL – URL hacking – Lifehacker – Chrome: If you prefer to see the site you're clicking through to before clicking on a shrunken URL, View Thru displays the source URL as a mouse-over pop-up display.
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Link Post for March 29th

March 30, 2010 By 1 Comment

This is the A2SM Link Post for March 29th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed

  • How Facebook May Save Elevation Partners – Things are not going great at Elevation Partners. Its initial $1.8 billion fund – that was met with great fanfare when it was raised by rockstar investor Roger McNamee, rockstar gaming executive John Riccitiello and actual rockstar Bono – is about 70% invested and the two biggest deals are duds. Elevation invested some $300 million in Forbes and a whopping $460 million in Palm—a company with a stock hovering around $4 per share, down some 75% since October.
  • Google Buzz Getting Smoked In The Sharing Race By A Dead Man – I’m reminded of this while looking over the traffic logs for TechCrunch, because it appears that someone else is losing to a dead rival: Google Buzz. According to our data, in the past month, Google Buzz has been sending less traffic to TechCrunch than FriendFeed — the service which is essentially the same as Buzz, only better, and ever since the acquisition by Facebook has been a ghost town.
  • Hulu Versus TV Everywhere: What Happens After The Comcast-NBC Merger Is Complete? – The pending $30 billion merger of Comcast and NBC-Universal is going to complicate things for Hulu, the second most popular online video site after YouTube. Hulu is a joint venture between NBC, News Corp/Fox, and (since last year) Disney/ABC. It was created by the TV networks as a counterweight to YouTube, a safe place where they could run their full-length TV shows online with their own ads.
  • Don’t share anything important or of value via Linkedin … they will own it! « scalability.org –
  • The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators – I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW. The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or how it could be applied to the real-time world.
  • 10 Must-See Google Street View Sightings – While we brought you 15 amusing Google Street View sightings when the service launched back in 2007, in the last few years Google has expanded its coverage around the globe, which also means expanding the chances of humorous photo captures.
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Link Post for December 7th from December 7th to December 7th

December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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?

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