Privacy and YOU

The article Privacy is Not Dead, Just Evolving by Tony Bradley is a quick nice bite – a “databyte” to read which

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synchronises nicely with the views held here @Technometry.

In the penultimate sentence of the article Mr Bradley writes

“the challenge is to strike a balance between providing access to all of the information in the world, without exposing all of the information in the world.”

Furthermore that “privacy is subjective” and as stressed in a recent  SXSWi keynote address, “people just want control over when and how their information is shared”.

Some quick and related technometry observations:

If you dont want people to see anything on Facebook/Friendster/MySpace, dont put it up there. Social Media is about sharing. Professional information can be posted to Linkedin. Personal Viewpoints on a Blog. Segment and pair each internet tool to its purpose.

If you do load a picture, understand to control its privacy status – facebook policy can be found here and helpful directions can be found here.

Make it clear to your friends how you feel about postings of pictures about yourself. There is no shame, in this day and age to make put censor controls on your physical friend network as well.

People need to better recognise that privacy is no longer a broad sphere, its a universe.  Conduct a vanity search on your name in Google. If you dont appear…youre one of the few.

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Facebook developments 2010

Heres an excerpt/oasis of information taken directly from a ITV Consumer Media newsletter that talks of social TV and the news that Facebook is making some nicely timed, significant changes… thanks to my good friend for passing this info on;

“…Open Graph, a developer focused follow-up to Facebook Connect, will let users log onto third-party sites using their Facebook account information.

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The Open Graph API will allow any page on the web to have all the features of a Facebook Page (a fan pages) – users will be able to become a Fan of the page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans.

More here on the changes:

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/10/29/mark-your-calendars-planning-for-facebooks-platform-changes-over-the-next-3-6-months/

Also, new rules will allow marketers to collect email addresses, bridging the gap between social media and email marketing.

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=180558067130

Here’s a post about TV on Facebook

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=173065077130

Here’s Randy Zuckerberg talking about Facebook and TV

Facebook developer roadmap – a detailed ouline of what Facebook have planned

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Developer_Roadmap

Social TV measurement – a blog post on this new phenomenon and how to measure it

http://www.mediazbiz.com

Interesting article on social TV

http://www.personalizemedia.com/social-tv-reloaded…”

The Webby Awards list

The 10 most most influential Internet moments of the decade:

- Craigslist online classified site expands outside San Francisco (2000)
- the launch of Google AdWords (2000)
- the launch of online encyclopedia Wikipedia (2001)
- the shutdown of file-sharing site Napster (2001)
- Google’s initial public offering (2004)
- the online video revolution led by YouTube (2006)
- Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter launches (2006)
- Apple’s iPhone debuts (2007)
- the use of the Internet in the US presidential campaign (2008)
- the use of Twitter during the Iranian election protests (2009)

Do with this what you will!

One interesting point – hoping technometry gets on this list sometime…!

Social Media Changing Lives

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I found a good article on how social media is here to stay at mashable.com, a website dedicated to the latest trends in social media.

For those of you with less time on your hands, due to making alot of toast for guests, a very quick precis:

1) Social media such as Twitter et al  is becoming an increasing source of trusted information.

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2) Is a new avenue to market for business and start ups with little budget – eg Facebook groups

3) Social media has created a new platform for creating and refining new and old friendships.

4) Tweets and status posts create greater opportunity to view personal feeling and “greater transparency to human nature”

5) The ability of the individual to influence the public has increased.

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Check out the article, indepth, below:

http://mashable.com/2009/10/16/social-media-changing-lives/

Beware of Facebook Worm

Just a quick update-

Beware of clicking links from wall posts and status updates in Facebook.

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It seems malware is making its way through various social media like Twitter and now Facebook.

You may already know, but just to drive the message home – never, never click on anything unless you are very sure. Be aware of generic messages and monitor the tone of the message. If it doesnt seem quite right, dont click.

See http://mashable.com/2009/09/25/warning-facebook-worm-spreading-via-news-feed/