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Facebook Adds New Status Privacy Features

August 25, 2011

Facebook released some new status privacy features. It allows you to tag other users in your status, add location (I think this is what happened to Places), and determine who gets to see each status message. This is all handled in a series of controls at the bottom of the status pane:

It allows you to [...]

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Neil Gaiman’s Kicking My Ass (On Twitter) [infographic]

July 15, 2011

I decided to check out Visual.ly to see what kind of job it did creating infographics automatically.  I decided to compare myself to @neilhimself, Neil Gaiman…  I probably should have picked on someone my own size.

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Web 3.0 Density with Clima.me

June 21, 2011
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Over at Total Social Media, and as part of their Web 3.0 Lab, they’ve developed a pretty cool mashup of location and social/semantic data called Clima.me. Clima.me is a tool that measures the density of location-tagged data from a number of web apps (Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Yelp, and Foursquare) and kicks back a Web 3.0 [...]

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Social Strategy: Time for Some Little Thinking

April 8, 2011
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Imagine you’ve been invited to the most anticipated cocktail party of the season. Well in advance of the event, you anticipate the people you will meet and the exciting conversations you will have. Finally the evening comes and, as you arrive, the hostess greets you at the door and offers to take your coat. Before [...]

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Social Media: Your Peripheral Nervous System

March 8, 2011
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Remember when you were in school and sat there confused while the teacher continued teaching something you didn’t quite grasp? Then, after the first student raised their hand and said, “I don’t get it,” a number of other students raised their hand and said, “We don’t get it, either.” Remember how much better you felt [...]

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Our Bad Choices: Similar But Not Equal

March 4, 2011
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I’m re-reading Dan Ariely‘s Predictably Irrational right now. It’s still amazing to me how completely manipulable we are. I just finished the first chapter, which deals with the phenomenon of how our decision-making processes are so predictably skewed by changes to the choice pool.
The example Dan brings up in the book is an experiment where [...]

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Recalling Total Recall

February 13, 2011

It’s been 2 years since I was poring over footage from a trip made to San Francisco to interview Gordon Bell about his book, Total Recall, and to discuss how computers were quickly taking their place as our surrogate memory. I recently went back and looked at the finished product and find the content more [...]

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What Chefs Can Teach Us About Social Media

January 21, 2011
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It’s easy to begin using Social Media and the cost of entry is very, very low.  As a result, many organizations feel compelled to begin using social channels without thinking through exactly how they will use them.  Even though it’s easy to begin using social media, using it effectively can be difficult at best.
At the [...]

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Melting Rock with RockMelt

December 3, 2010
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I’ve been using RockMelt for a week or so now.  For those of you unfamiliar with RockMelt, it is a new browser that functions as a social desktop.  If you’re wondering what that looks like, consider a browser with social functions built right into the chrome of the application.  The far left border displays the [...]

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The Shape of a Social Enterprise

November 11, 2010
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Much has been made of the idea of a Social Enterprise. The idea of increased transparency both within and without the organization. Internally, tacit knowledge is given a new degree of latitude. Externally, the line between inside and outside the organization begins to blur. I think we’ve done a lot of thinking about how social media [...]

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