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On Facebook, ‘Friends of Friends’ Could Mean ‘Hundreds of Thousands’
You may not think you’re sharing with many people when using Facebook’s “Friends of Friends” privacy setting, but two degrees of separation actually goes a long way.
According to a new Pew study, Facebook users who share with …
TechnologizerGoogle
Search, Plus Your World: Google’s Risky Gambit
The web giant just mashed up its search engine and social network — and the results so far are unsatisfying.
TechnologizerFacebook
Facebook and Privacy: Imperfect Together
So help me, I like Mark Zuckerberg. I’m glad he invented Facebook in his Harvard dorm back in early 2004 and has devoted himself to it ever since. The world, and my life, are richer for it.
Yep, Microsoft’s Building a Secret Social Network, Called ‘Socl’
Microsoft’s secret social network may be tested publicly and looks a lot like Facebook and Google+
Google+ Will Soon Offer Pseudonyms, Anonymity
Time for the fake Lady Gagas to come out of the wood work. At a Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and SVP of Social Business Vic Gundotra dropped the news that it’s okay to have “other forms of identity” on Google+.
Beyond that, they’re also getting branding pages ready, a long awaited-feature …
The High-Tech Behind Occupy Wall Street’s Low-Tech Message
If you were part of a network of demonstrators grabbing magazine covers and galvanizing activists across the country, how would you spread the word and keep the momentum building? Twitter? Facebook? Google+?
Try Tumblr, the less-everyday-talked-about but no less powerful microblogging service that’s really a mashup of multiple social …
TechnologizerSocial Networking
Facebook’s ‘Open Graph’ Needs New Approaches to Privacy
I touched on the privacy implications of Facebook’s new Open Graph share-everything-forever platform in my latest Technologizer column over at TIME.com—but I didn’t dwell on them. For one thing, neither feature is fully available yet, making it hard to judge them. For another, use of Facebook in general and the Open Graph in particular …
Whatever Happened to the Facebook iPad App?
There’s a Facebook app for the iPhone and Android, so why, after all this time, hasn’t the company released one for the iPad? Here’s the kicker: It exists, and it’s been more or less ready to go for some time.
TechCrunch reports that for nearly five months, the app was feature complete (and not completely finished) but still …
Reveal More, Consume More: Facebook’s Big Changes
Facebook’s f8 conference started off on a light note, with Saturday Night Live star Andy Samberg doing his best Mark Zuckerberg impression, but the conference quickly got down to serious business with some big changes for the world’s biggest social network.
With a huge smile on his face, Zuckerberg showed off a new kind of Facebook …
Google+ Finally Opens to the Public, Adds Tons of New Features
Google+ is finally open to the public, no invitation required. Not that it was difficult to snag an invite anyway, but now we’ll get a chance to see what the service is fully capable of as more users tiptoe in and begin poking around.
In addition to 91 other improvements that G+ has added over the past 90 days, Google took to its blog …
Report: Facebook Adding Read, Listened, Watched and Want Buttons
Do you “like” Facebook? Pretty soon, you may have the chance to also mark things “read,” “listened,” “watched” and “want” on Facebook as well. According to a TechCrunch source, Facebook may be unrolling these new features at its “f8” developer conference later this week.
As the conference gets closer, everyone is …