What information have companies collected about you? Your attention data, behaviors, demographics, clickstream patterns, etc… and more.
Which companies have personal data about you?
Where is it stored? Who has control of it?
Or rather.. who have they sold it to? And what will they do with it?
MANY companies now maintain a large array of personal info about anyone who uses their website or other services. Most companies use personal data to target products, advertisements and other offers to consumers.
Pierre-Guillaume Wielezynski of the World Bank, posted about a future model of user-centric ad-serving where corporations partner with individuals to access their personal information.
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About Drupal for Facebook:
(from the Drupal project page)
This set of modules and themes turns Drupal into a platform for developing Facebook Applications.
With Drupal for Facebook, you can harness all the power of Drupal in your Facebook App. If you already have content in Drupal, you can expose it on Facebook.
The Drupal for Facebook philosophy is that the functionality already built into Drupal should be used to create Facebook Applications. Where possible, we use Drupal’s user management, permission schemes, blocks, views, etc. to implement the Facebook App. Experienced Drupal users will find it very straightforward to build a Facebook App. While Facebook developers new to Drupal may want to spend some time on Drupal.org learning best practices.
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At this point, I strongly believe that social media spam prevention must occur at the social network software level. Social media sites can fight social spam by create algorithms that individualize user experience by interpreting relevancy through user relationships. Relationship data can come from what & how a user votes for, views, reads, recommends, bookmarks, or includes in his or her personal social network.
Utilizing OpenID Systems
Hopefullly, OpenID systems will allow social media sites to share user reputation, relevance, preference, and trust data with other social sites. More user data leads to the creation of more effective social media spam prevention tools, as well as increasingly relevant user experiences that give you exactly what you want.
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Embeddable videos include YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, Revver and Vimeo. Pownce has just added additional customization options, too. Read a good review of these new Pownce updates at Jeffro 2pt0.
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Look me up on Pownce @
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Pigeon has cracked the MySpace MSPlinks code.
In his words:
The obfuscated part of an msplinks URL is simply the original URL preceded by two digits and encoded using base64. Thank the Lord that it’s not actually encrypted. This makes it simple to recover the original URL.
The good news is that you don’t need to know programming of any sort to remove the MSPlinks.com redirects. Pigeon has created a bookmarklet that solves the problem.
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Hiitch is a desktop social networking platform. It’s open source. You can actually download the source and create you own private social network with others you invite.
I’m still new to Hiitch so I’m still exploring its functionality, but it looks very exciting. I will definitely post updates as I get more accustomed with Hiitch’s social networking functions and others features.
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What is ShiftSpace?
This is one of the most interesting applications of social network that I’ve seen in a while. Instead of operating on a completely separate domain, like MySpace, ShiftSpace allows the entire internet to be included in the landscape that forms the ShiftSpace network. This means that ShiftSpace users can interact in real ways with existing viewpoints, discussions, and events that are actually occurring throughout the world. This makes ShiftSpace more relevant than any closed system could be.
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Chrysi Philalithes published a social media strategy article on promoting vs participating.
Abbey Klaassen writes about marketers using social networks for CRM instead of ads. CRM & social networks seem like a perfect match.
The Second Life Insider reported today that the Second Life grid was experiencing large problems:
At 8:00AM SLT (US Pacific) this-morning, with 37,419 users logged into the Second Life grid, something began to go wrong. Reports began coming in of teleportation problems, difficulties accessing inventory, search failures, and difficulties logging in.
In a recent update, Linden Labs claims to have solves the issues.
My last post discussed how MSPlinks.com redirects make MySpace. com more dangerous for users. Since then, I’ve stumbled upon a brilliant MySpace GreaseMonkey script by Jason at smert.net that reveals the true destination of MySpace outgoing links that have been dangerously hidden by these MSPlinks.com redirects.
MySpace is irresponsible to impose these MSPlinks.com redirects. It is yet another example of how MySpace treats its millions of loyal, dedicated users as enemies. However in this case, MySpace’s profit squeezing is actually jeopardizing their users’ safety as well.
