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		<title>On Facebook, &#8216;Friends of Friends&#8217; Could Mean &#8216;Hundreds of Thousands&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/03/on-facebook-friends-of-friends-could-mean-hundreds-of-thousands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=117495&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Search, Plus Your World: Google&#8217;s Risky Gambit</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/search-plus-your-world-googles-risky-gambit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the attention of the technology press turned &#8212; as it always does in January &#8212; to Las Vegas. As usual, the Consumer Electronics Show filled the town to the bursting point with new gizmos of all kinds. But the news with the greatest long-term potential to shake up tech as we know it emanated from Mountain View, California, and it didn&#8217;t have anything to do with gadgets. It was Google&#8217;s announcement that it&#8217;s begun to add a new social dimension to its eponymous, market-dominating search engine &#8212; a twist that it calls &#8220;Search, Plus Your World.&#8221; For now, at least, what Google is doing with SPYW is stirring information from its Google+ social network into the gumbo of links that makes up its search results. For some searches, results will now be preceded by a link to updates and photos from your Google+ friends (assuming you have any) relating to your query; these items may also be woven into the results themselves. For some, a list on the right-hand side of the screen will recommend Google+ users who relate to the query you entered. And when you start to type into the search box, Google may suggest that you visit the profile of Google+ friends or high-profile users whose names match the characters you&#8217;ve entered. (MORE: Why Google’s Biggest Problem with ‘Search Plus Your World’ Isn’t Antitrust) The fact that these features have arrived isn&#8217;t the least bit startling. Melding Google+ with the world&#8217;s most popular search engine is Google&#8217;s most potent weapon in its ongoing battle for web supremacy with the world&#8217;s most popular social network, Facebook. And the very name &#8220;Google+&#8221; indicates that Google sees the service not as something distinct from Google search, but rather as its future. I was, however, surprised by the intensity of the instant backlash against Google&#8217;s decision to turn its search engine into a billboard for Google+. One Google+ competitor, Twitter, is openly agitated about Google&#8217;s favoritism for its own social network. Google gurus Steven Levy and Danny Sullivan both<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=115097&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook and Privacy: Imperfect Together</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/12/01/facebook-and-privacy-imperfect-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So help me, I like Mark Zuckerberg. I&#8217;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. I do confess, however, to feeling just a tiny twinge of pleasure as I read the blog post Zuckerberg published this week concerning his company&#8217;s deal with the FTC to settle a bevy of privacy-related complaints that piled up over the years. Facebook agreed to operate under a variety of restrictions intended to ensure that it doesn&#8217;t improperly share information which members believe to be private, including biannual privacy audits for the next two decades. While the company didn&#8217;t formally admit having done anything wrong, Zuck wolfed down copious amounts amounts of crow in the post. He didn&#8217;t sound too pleased about it. (LIST: 25 Facebook Profiles You Should Subscribe to Right Now) Zuckerberg also pointed out numerous instances of Facebook taking ambitious steps to help its members control what information they share, and with whom. They&#8217;re real, and it deserves credit for them. But he shouldn&#8217;t expect such good deeds to earn it any Get Out of Jail Free cards with its members or the FTC. It has a reputation for being insufficiently respectful of its members&#8217; privacy because&#8230;well, because it&#8217;s sometimes been insufficiently respectful of its members&#8217; privacy. For a club with hundreds of millions of active members, Facebook remains remarkably symbiotic with its creator. Its philosophy about privacy reflects his own feelings, which have always been, um, multi-faceted and subject to change. The Mark Zuckerberg who just appointed not one but two Chief Privacy Officers is the same dude who, in Facebook&#8217;s earliest days, bragged to a friend that he had scads of information on 4,000 of his Harvard classmates and directed a foul-mouthed insult at them for having been so gullible as to trust him. The two attitudes express the polar extremes of Facebook privacy; at one point or another, Zuck has covered most of the ground in between. Over<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=108209&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yep, Microsoft&#8217;s Building a Secret Social Network, Called &#8216;Socl&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/16/yep-microsofts-building-a-secret-social-network-called-socl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's leaked social search plans over the summer were no fluke; the company is working on its own social network called "Socl" that will be tested publicly, according to The Verge.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=105197&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ Will Soon Offer Pseudonyms, Anonymity</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/20/google-will-soon-offer-pseudonyms-anonymity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 for many businesses. (Google+ kicked out Nike and Cola-Cola when the two companies tried initially.) Google was fairly strict in the beginning regarding its policy toward user names and brands, but it’s clear that the company is taking a chill pill when it comes to the matter. (MORE: Google+&#8217;s Real-Name Policy: Identity vs. Anonymity) Bradley Horowitz, VP of Product Management for Google+, says there was a reason for not allowing anonymity before: making sure they got other things, like the minor policy, in place before tackling the problem. “We have always intended to support [pseudonyms],” he noted at the All Thing D conference in Hong Kong. Google also says Google+ will soon begin to integrate Google Apps, which is great for the companies who rely on it. It should be a reasonable assumption that this integration will occur as branding pages kick into effect. (MORE: Google+: Google Reverses Its Social-Network Curse) It was clear at the conference in Hong Kong how important curation was for Google’s social platform. Horowitz noted that the company was concerned about Google+ users and developers running amok, despite slowly relaxing its policies. “It’s not the Wild Wild West,” he said.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100374&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Social Networking</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/social-networking-apps-web/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>The High-Tech Behind Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s Low-Tech Message</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/14/the-high-tech-behind-occupy-wall-streets-low-tech-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s really a mashup of multiple social networking concepts. Think Twitter without the 140-character straitjacket, Facebook and Google+ without the sketchy privacy issues or &#8220;to-friend-or-not-friend&#8221; mentality, or WordPress, only more easily adapted to social activities like crowdsourcing. Think text, links, images, audio, video and a simple framework for short-form blogging. Tumblr boasts a total 11.4 billion posts and 31.4 million total blogs to date. The service claims just shy of 39 million posts have gone up (so far) today alone. (MORE: Tumblr Gets Much, Much Prettier for iPad and iPhone) And according to Discovery, it&#8217;s the platform of choice for the Occupy Wall Street movement, a loosely organized, intentionally leaderless series of demonstrations that began in New York City&#8217;s Zuccotti Park, but have since spread across the country. The movement&#8217;s goals include protesting economic and social disparity as well as the corrupting influence of corporate money on government. Some compare it to the so-called &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; that swept through Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and over a dozen other countries this year. &#8220;It is remarkable what a little more than 100,000 Americans, showing up and staying awhile have done in three weeks,&#8221; writes consumer activist and five-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader in a piece about the movement. The group&#8217;s official site claims it&#8217;s preparing for a &#8220;day of action&#8221; this Saturday, October 15, in over 950 cities and 82 countries. And while OWS is using Facebook, Twitter, Livestream and Reddit to get the word out, the movement&#8217;s supporters are apparently flocking to Tumblr. &#8220;I am a public school teacher. I have 3 Master’s degrees and no student loan debt. My parents paid for all of my education,&#8221; reads a handwritten sign posted yesterday by one OWS supporter on We Are the 99 Percent, a Tumblr blog associated with the OWS movement. &#8220;My wife is also a public school<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99851&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s &#8216;Open Graph&#8217; Needs New Approaches to Privacy</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/03/facebooks-open-graph-needs-new-approaches-to-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I touched on the privacy implications of Facebook&#8217;s new Open Graph share-everything-forever platform in my latest Technologizer column over at TIME.com—but I didn&#8217;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 are both optional. Using them and then squawking that they&#8217;re violating your privacy is a little like going to Disneyland and griping about excessive Mickey Mouse-related imagery. Still, if the Open Graph catches on—and I suspect that it will—it&#8217;ll change Facebook, and should change how people use Facebook. The social network is already connected to millions of sites and services, but information only flows into it when you tell it to do so, such as by clicking a Like button. With the Open Graph, you&#8217;ll give a site one-time permission to share everything with Facebook indefinitely. (MORE: Did Facebook Just Change Social Networking Forever?) For better or worse, your Facebook Timeline aims to be a far more detailed log of your life online than its predecessor, the Profile, ever was. And the longer you use it, the higher the chances that you might absently-mindedly disclose something on Facebook that you don&#8217;t want people to know about. A few thoughts on what needs to happen for Open Graph apps to be cool and welcome, not creepy and/or annoying: You should keep tabs on your own Timeline. In the pre-Open Graph era, there wasn&#8217;t all that much reason to read your own Profile: You already knew what you&#8217;d put there, and Facebook alerted you when your pals commented on your updates. With Open Graph, apps will push stuff on your behalf in far greater quantities, and it&#8217;ll make sense to monitor them. You should be fussier about giving permission. How many apps currently have permission to post to my Facebook profile? I would have guessed 20 or 25. But I just checked, and there are 166 of &#8216;em. That&#8217;s not a huge issue, because they wont touch my<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98604&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Happened to the Facebook iPad App?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/27/whatever-happened-to-the-facebook-ipad-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a Facebook app for the iPhone and Android, so why, after all this time, hasn&#8217;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 hasn’t been released to the masses. The lead developer who worked on the project and now works at Google, Jeff Verkoeyen, says that the app’s been feature complete since May. (MORE: First Impressions of Facebook&#8217;s Not-So-Secret iPad App) Verokeyen went into further detail on his personal blog: It is now nearly 5 months since the app was feature complete and I haven&#8217;t seen it released except for when the project was leaked on Techcrunch. Needless to say this was a frustrating experience for me. The experience of working on this app was a large contribution to the reasons why I left Facebook, though that doesn&#8217;t mean it wasn&#8217;t a difficult decision. Two months ago, TechCrunch discovered a leak within the Facebook iPhone app. By tweaking a few lines of code, the tech blog was able to enable it. They surmised that while it may not have been complete, it was nearly ready to go. Verkoeyen, who had worked on the app for eight months and nearly 80 hours a week at times, said he became frustrated with Facebook’s decision to delay the app with ambiguous deadlines. The original timeline had the app pegged for a May release. But the reason for its non-release may have more to do with the relationship between Facebook and Apple than with completion of the iPad app. Both the New York Times and TechCrunch report that things really took a turn for the worse last year when Apple launched Ping, its music-based social network. Facebook was conspicuously missing from the collaboration, though it has partnered with Apple in many projects before. No one&#8217;s quite sure when the app will finally get released. After being delayed in May (and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98342&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reveal More, Consume More: Facebook&#8217;s Big Changes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/22/reveal-more-consume-more-facebooks-big-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook&#8217;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&#8217;s biggest social network. With a huge smile on his face, Zuckerberg showed off a new kind of Facebook profile, called the &#8220;Timeline.&#8221; Think of your Timeline as a digital scrapbook that builds itself automatically through your activity on Facebook. Photos, app updates and other Facebook activity assemble in reverse chronological order, forming what Zuckerberg described as the &#8220;story of your life.&#8221; Whatever details are missing, you can add manually. (MORE: Top 10 People Caught on Facebook) The other half of Facebook&#8217;s conference was all about apps, and the new ways people can use them. That News Ticker everyone was complaining about after Wednesday&#8217;s redesign? It exists, in part, to let users automatically share little bits of app information that won&#8217;t appear in Facebook&#8217;s main Timeline, like the songs you&#8217;re listening to on Spotify or the movies you&#8217;re watching on Netflix. Now, Facebook users will be able to listen to songs together while chatting about them, or watch a movie simply because a friend is doing the same. These kinds of updates will appear in the new Timeline as well, if the user allows it. The overarching theme here, as it often is with Facebook, is that Facebook wants you to share more about yourself with your friends. And as is often the case with Facebook, this is at once a scary and exciting proposition. Facebook&#8217;s current profiles are a wasted opportunity. You can&#8217;t learn much about a person by looking up where they work, viewing a handful of photos and reading a few recent status updates. Timelines promise to paint a more genuine and complete picture of each user. But they also risk revealing  too much. Zuckerberg kept likening Timelines to a deep conversation, ignoring the fact that viewing someone&#8217;s profile is a one-way interaction. In the real world, we don&#8217;t give away<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98014&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ Finally Opens to the Public, Adds Tons of New Features</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/20/google-finally-opens-to-the-public-adds-tons-of-new-features/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google+ is finally open to the public, no invitation required. Not that it was difficult to snag an invite anyway, but now we&#8217;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 to announce nine new tweaks to coincide with today&#8217;s public release. They note that Google+ is officially out of &#8220;field testing&#8221; and can now be considered beta (meaning: expect bugs). The announcement comes a few days before Facebook&#8217;s big F8 conference and during a stretch that saw Zuck&#8217;s social network rattle off a few commendable changes of its own. The social network wars are heating up, and even that may be an understatement. Now at least everyone will get a chance to see what all the fuss (or hype) is all about. (LIST: A Brief History of Google&#8217;s Social Networking Flops) Here&#8217;s a quick list of Google+&#8217;s upgrades: New mobile Hangouts Android owners with front-facing cameras will now be able to take advantage of G+&#8217;s Hangouts feature right from their smartphone thanks to an updated app that they can download from the Marketplace. Google promises that iOS support is coming soon. Hangouts &#8220;On Air&#8221; Google+ plays home to lots of Internet celebrities with large audiences. Now you&#8217;ll be able to publicly broadcast your Hangout sessions—with up to nine people participating—to large audiences over the web (kind of like U-Stream). They&#8217;re promoting a public Hangout with will.i.am on Wednesday, September 21st&#8230;because, you know, celebrities don&#8217;t have enough megaphones. Hangouts with extras Now you&#8217;ll be able to use Hangouts for more than just video chatting. Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll be able to do in Google&#8217;s own words: - Screensharing: for when you want to show off your vacation photos, your high score, your lesson plan or whatever else is on your screen &#8211; Sketchpad: for when you want to draw, doodle, or just scribble together &#8211; Google Docs: for when you want to write,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97687&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Facebook Adding Read, Listened, Watched and Want Buttons</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/20/report-facebook-to-launch-read-listened-watched-and-want-buttons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;f8&#8243; developer conference later this week. As the conference gets closer, everyone is speculating about Facebook’s next move. In addition to the new buttons, there is talk of a “major” profile redesign. And the social networking service could finally launch a long-rumored music partnership with Spotify and Rhapsody. The conference happens on Thursday, so we&#8217;ll see what happens. (MORE: Facebook Makes Another Big Announcement with &#8216;Subscriptions&#8217;) We’ve fretted over what kind of music partnership could benefit both Facebook and other media streaming services before, but this is the first time we’ve heard something about extra buttons. Mashable says it’s all part of a larger move toward social commerce – and would allow companies to segment specific data rather than through the generic “Like” button. It’s starting to sound all a bit much to keep up with, especially for Facebook users. It’s a virtual goldmine for online advertisers, though. Still, who wants to take bets that with a possible redesign, some users will be clamoring for a “dislike” button? I know where my money is at. MORE: Could Facebook and Spotify Succeed Where Other Music Services Fail? [via TechCrunch] Erica Ho is a reporter at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @ericamho and Google+. She promises to post more. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97604&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo, Facebook Want to Find Out if It&#8217;s a &#8216;Small World&#8217; After All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/19/yahoo-facebook-want-to-find-out-if-its-a-small-world-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how small a world is it, after all? A British journalist may have found that you can go from a random tweet to personal information in just nine steps, but now Yahoo! and Facebook are teaming up to find out more with the Small World Experiment. According to Yahoo! Research, the experiment is &#8220;designed to test the hypothesis that anyone in the world can get a message to anyone else in just &#8220;six degrees of separation&#8221; by passing it from friend to friend.&#8221; (MORE: Nine Degrees of Separation: How Easily Your Personal Info Can Be Found Online) For those who sign up, the experiment provides a choice of contact—or, as Yahoo! calls them, &#8220;Target Persons&#8221;; you can also volunteer to become one of those—for them to reach, and leaves it up to them to choose the friend they think might be most useful in reaching the target person in the shortest number of &#8220;moves.&#8221; It sounds like a fun way to find out how connected we all are to each other, and the internet; it&#8217;s also a great piece of PR for Yahoo! and Facebook. Everything seems too good to be true&#8230; so it&#8217;s probably all just a front for the creation of some kind of online Facebook spy ring or something, right? Here&#8217;s hoping that Yahoo! Research launches the &#8220;Completely Paranoid World Experiment&#8221; soon, just to rein me in. MORE: Your Facebook Friends Aren&#8217;t Your Own Choice, Says Science Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94306&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could What Happened to MySpace Happen to Facebook?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/15/could-what-happened-to-myspace-happen-to-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley. Social networks have been in the news lately. Last month MySpace was sold and we learned that Justin Timberlake and his partners have decided to try and help it be successful again. (MORE: Myspace Sold for $35 Million with &#8216;Significant Reduction&#8217; of Staff Imminent) Google has just launched a new service called Google+ that has the blogosphere asking if it is a Facebook killer. So the question I want to explore is whether or not what happened to MySpace could happen to Facebook? Facebook Learned from MySpace&#8217;s Errors MySpace fell from grace for several reasons. First, they sacrificed the service&#8217;s integrity in pursuit of monetization. For those who remember, the user experience declined drastically once the service hit a critical mass. We were bombarded by ads—highly irrelevant ones and many of a sexual nature (at least mine were). There came a point in time where I literally said to myself that the service had become unusable. I heard the same from a plethora as others as well. The turning point was when they lost control to the advertisers. Their monetization strategy was poor and because of that the site went downhill. The second reason was because they failed to innovate in order to meet the needs of their users. In short, MySpace ran out of ideas. The site started with the humble idea of giving people their own spaces on the web but never evolved it into much more. Facebook, on the other hand, has taken a different approach. They have not only been innovating and evolving the service to meet the needs of their users, but they have also been employing a business model that actually works for the service and is valuable to people. This model includes the subtle yet relevant placing of ads. Facebook has innovated and monetized without sacrificing their network&#8217;s integrity for the almighty dollar. Facebook also has another<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90297&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief History of Google&#8217;s Social Networking Flops</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/11/a-brief-history-of-googles-social-networking-flops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For last week&#8217;s Technologizer column over at TIME.com, I took a look at Google+, the promising new &#8220;project&#8221; that consists of several loosely-knit services that add up to a plausible Facebook alternative. At the moment, it&#8217;s a sort of Fantasyland where almost everybody is a tech geek, and nearly all the talk is about Google+. And there&#8217;s no guarantee it&#8217;s going to go anywhere once real people are allowed to flood in. But the fact that people are taking it seriously rather than squawking and mocking is a bit of a breakthrough. After all, Google&#8217;s social networking track record to date is rife with stuff that failed to live up to its potential, caused needless angst for its users, or never quite took off at all. Consider the evidence&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89378&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oops, Google+ Already Ran Out of Disk Space</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/11/oops-google-already-ran-out-of-disk-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s social networking Facebook rival test-launched not quite two weeks ago, and it&#8217;s already suffering growing pains. In fact Google+&#8217;s storage well apparently ran dry this weekend, prompting the service to spam users with a sudden fusillade of error messages. On Saturday, Google+ senior vice president of &#8220;social&#8221; Vic Gundotra admitted the service had briefly been on the fritz. &#8220;Please accept our apologies for the spam we caused this afternoon,&#8221; he wrote on his Google+ page. &#8220;For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. Yikes.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Life Inside Facebook Headquarters) Yikes indeed. Gundotra says Google didn&#8217;t anticipate the service (which is still in invite-only test mode) hitting &#8220;these high thresholds&#8221; so soon, but that the company &#8220;should have.&#8221; Well yeah they should have. How do you run out of disk space not two weeks into your first outing? Or is this actually a super-secret marketing ploy to make Google+ seem more in demand, somehow? Who knows, but Gundotra was unreservedly apologetic: &#8220;Thank you for helping us during this field trial, and once again,&#8221; he wrote, adding that the company was &#8220;very sorry for the spam.&#8221; But surely not sorry for the growth craze, which may have already netted the service north of 4.5 million users, according to Google+ user and Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen. Allen says he&#8217;s been using U.S. Census Bureau data and surnames to come up with his U.S.-centric usage estimate. Contrast with Facebook&#8217;s 750 million members worldwide and Google+ has its work cut out, not to mention its storage needs assuming things take off once the service unbars the doors. Of all the companies you&#8217;d expect to have an online storage problem, Google&#8217;s not one that comes to mind. This is, after all, the company that lobbed gigabytes of free online email storage space at customers well before the competition did. MORE: Eric Schmidt: There&#8217;s Room for Multiple Social Networks, More Cooperation Matt Peckham is a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89615&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Social Networking</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/social-networking-apps-web/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Google Plus&#8230; Me? Securing a Google+ Invite Isn&#8217;t Easy Yet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/30/google-plus-me-securing-a-google-invite-isnt-easy-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zara Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 3:54 PM on Tuesday afternoon, I received an e-mail telling me that my friend Hope was “hanging out.” Having no idea what this meant—and being at work and therefore in no position to go “hang out” with her—I ignored both the e-mail and the novel “(Google+)” label next to her name. Surely this was another of those Google features that would come and go silently. Remember Google Buzz—that weird quasi-Twitter? Or the “Important” emails tag, which to us laypeople seems exactly the same as the “Starred” tag? Later that evening though, I found social media sites bustling with people seeking Google+ invitations. Apparently they were in short supply and hard to snag, much like those original Gmail invites. Now I wanted in. I thought about that time years ago when I made fun of my older brother for joining this strange website at college. All he seemed to do on it was share personal information about which I couldn’t imagine anyone else cared. It was called Facebook. Facebook is of course the measuring stick by which Google+, Google’s stab at social networking, will chart its success (or lack thereof). Early reviews seem to have high hopes for the network, whose most exciting feature seems to be the ability to group friends into Circles and then decide which Circles you want to share pieces of information with—a streamlined answer to concerns about privacy and transparency on Facebook. (MORE: Impressions: Google+ Is Everything Facebook Should Be) If Facebook allows us to be responsible about our privacy, Google+ forces us to; requiring us, from the get-go, to separate the friends from the acquaintances, the parents from the co-workers. Huddles are a revamped version of the group text. The AOL chat room has been put on camera and brought into the 21st century with Hangouts, one of which Hope was seemingly part of on Tuesday afternoon. I figured that I had already received one of those coveted invites to Google+. That was why I got Hope’s “hanging out” email in the first place,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88691&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impressions: Google+ Is Everything Facebook Should Be</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/30/impressions-google-is-everything-facebook-should-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oooh, things might start getting interesting around here. That’s because for the first time, Google’s thrown down a real social networking contender with Google+. Facebook finally might have gotten its first real rival. Forget Buzz. Forget Wave. I almost even forgot what Google Wave was called. While my first impressions of Google+ initially reminded me of Facebook, it quickly distinguished itself from its competitor. In reality, Google+ feels like everything that Facebook should be. (MORE: Google Faces Up to Facebook with &#8216;Plus&#8217; Social Sharing Site) The user interface is slick, clean, and most of all blazingly fast. Compared to Facebook, which is often sluggish, convoluted and cumbersome these days, using Google+ is like zipping on by with a jet plane. To Google+’s credit, the interface is intuitive, thereby making the learning curve low. Let me make myself clear: You don’t “add friends” with Google+. Rather, you can add anyone, and anyone can add you. Multiple people can be part of different circles, just as in real life. There’s my geeky early-adopting friends, Grandma Joe, Ms. Jackson, Angelina Jolie, my boss and the guy who checks me out at the supermarket. But if you and a friend have added each other to your Circles, a new option pops up to send them a message. Instead of “messaging” them, you will be able to send them an email – straight through Gmail. If you’re like Doug, who refuses to add me, I can’t email him. It’s a simple system and, even better, it eliminates all social awkwardness that comes when you decide to defriend your ex or your filthy roommate. [Editor's note: You added me in the middle of the night! We're all square now, though -- Doug] (story continues on next page&#8230;)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88607&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Tweeting: When Is It Time to Stop Oversharing on Twitter?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/09/public-tweeting-when-is-it-time-to-stop-oversharing-on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is sacrosanct. We all go through the same motions in life, right? So what&#8217;s wrong with tweeting while you’re in child labor? Or sending pictures of some distinctly manly parts? At what point do I stop telling the world what I just ate for lunch? Most recently, New York Representative Anthony Weiner tweeted a rather incriminating picture of something imitating his last name in what’s turned into a scandalous controversy. It wasn’t supposed to be a public tweet: He claims it was supposed to be sent as a direct message. So he did what anyone in his rather public position would do: He claimed it was a hoax and that his Twitter account was hacked. Jokes aside (and there have been many), he ‘fessed up in a press conference that has made the rounds of every single media outlet imaginable. But if we’re talking bodily fluids along with bodily parts, Mary Wycherly of the United Kingdom also decided to share the beautiful process of childbirth with the rest of the world recently. Besides warning women everywhere and reminding those with a Y chromosome that it might be a blessing to have that gene, the incident has received attention in the press. Her tweets didn’t hide anything, from her dismay about her water breaking to the reactions of the midwives. When the pain got to be too much, she turned the tweeting responsibilities over to her husband. Now that’s some Twitter dedication. Oh man I&#8217;ve knackered the couch with amniotic fluid. These midwives are ace. &#8220;We love it when you want to poo. It makes us happy&#8221;. #homebirth Wycherly, post-labor, later realized that perhaps live-tweeting her child’s birth probably wasn’t the most “private” thing to do. Starting to regret tweeting during birth now. I don&#8217;t want to go on telly, radio etc It wasn&#8217;t meant to be an &#8216;event&#8217;. In other news, happy. Still, it boils down to what she chose to disclose publicly, even if she isn’t a government figure like Weiner is. Last year, the Library of Congress<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=85919&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: It&#8217;s Microsoft &amp; Facebook vs. Twitter &amp; Apple</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/06/its-official-its-microsoft-facebook-vs-twitter-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allie Townsend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pick your sides. The lines have been drawn. During Monday&#8217;s World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced a complete integration with Twitter for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. (See here for more from the WWDC announcement.) Users will be able to use a single login for Twitter that will work across Camera, Photo and other apps for the ability to tweet directly from these functions. It&#8217;ll also allow for easy tweeting directly from Maps, Safari pages and YouTube. Even your contacts will get the Twitter treatment, as photos from Twitter can be imported there, too. These features will get a big round of applause from iPhone users, yes, but they&#8217;ll also reinforce Twitter&#8217;s continued attack on third-party photo clients now that users will be able to tweet directly from their iPhone&#8217;s camera. Now, Microsoft owns a piece of Facebook so those eager for a similar feature between Apple and Zuck will likely be left waiting for quite a while. Besides, with these sparring social networks teaming up with dueling tech giants, alliances have been formed. Microbook vs. Twapple? Facrosoft vs. Appter? Eh, we&#8217;ll work on it. More: Apple Debuts &#8216;iTunes in the Cloud&#8217; (but No New iPhone)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=85437&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Rolls Out &#8216;+1&#8242; Button for Websites, Hopes You&#8217;ll &#8216;Like&#8217; It</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/01/google-rolls-out-1-button-for-websites-hopes-youll-like-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s &#8220;+1&#8243; initiative, announced in late March, is finally ready for its big debut on sites across the web. Similar to Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Like&#8221; button, +1 will live on some of the websites you frequent and you&#8217;ll be able to click it to recommend whatever you find interesting to others. Per Google: &#8220;+1 is as simple on the rest of the web as it is on Google search. With a single click you can recommend that raincoat, news article or favorite sci-fi movie to friends, contacts and the rest of the world. The next time your connections search, they could see your +1’s directly in their search results, helping them find your recommendations when they’re most useful.&#8221; If you want to use +1, simply click a +1 button when you first come across one and anything you +1 from that day forward will appear in a +1 tab that lives inside your Google profile. As Google specifies, &#8220;While your +1’s are public, the +1’s tab on your Google profile is viewable only to you unless you specify otherwise.&#8221; You can delete +1&#8242;s, too. More on TIME.com: Google Targets Facebook &#8216;Like&#8217; Button with Its Own &#8216;+1&#8242; Button<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=84991&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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