It seems they’ll never learn. Yesterday, this pop-up introduced itself to Facebook users across the globe, and it wasn’t to the warmest of welcomes, either. Out of the millions of users who see this pop-up, roughly half can be expected to actually follow through with the indoctrination into new privacy features, while the rest will [...]

Yes, they’ve finally done it. After months of talk about incorporating the mounds of real-time data to which Google has access, they’re finally piping it all into their own search results. The sources they listed are some pretty big names: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, and Jaiku, among others — and that’s not counting the major [...]

Responsible reporting starts with what you choose to report, and turning something as toxic as Facebook games into high-traffic news is beyond ridiculous. Slow days happen, but there are better things to talk about than this garbage.

[UPDATE] Richard Barley, Community Manager for TweetDeck, was kind enough to stop by and clarify the issue last night, via comment. He made assurances that TweetDeck servers are secure, and suggested that the likely culprit here is in fact Brizzly. Apparently, in enacting their own list compatibility, Brizzly caused pre-existing groups to update back on [...]

This week has been utterly ruined by the uproarious debut of Twitter’s new Lists feature, and if you can’t already tell — I don’t like them.
Here’s the issue with lists: They’re unnecessary. A Twitter list is nothing more than a group column in Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop. Only, these are meant to be public, and [...]

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I’ve recently noticed a disparaging spike in twitter spam, and while that’s pretty much normal in and of itself, this time it’s different. Donald Trump seems to be named in at least one spam-tweet every minute, and it’s only getting worse. So, I got curious.

[UPDATE]:This account has been verified.
While the legitimacy of this account is still in question, I think it’s safe to say we’re all hoping that it’s really Danny DeVito. If it isn’t him, then I’m still fully behind this guy because he’s so amazingly awesome. If you’re still not quite sure, then take a look at [...]

Treating social-networking sites or services such as Facebook and Twitter as nothing more than tools may get your clients a modest amount of pageviews, but it’s really only making you the telemarketers of the Internet.
That’s it. Nothing more.

[UPDATE]: Earlier today (Tues., 21 July), Jay Adelson posted an official statement on Digg’s blog detailing the company’s position on the diggbar issue. It reads as follows:

Hey everyone,
I wanted to clear up some confusion created over the past couple of days surrounding the DiggBar, specifically how Digg short URLs work. As we’ve stated in the [...]

Facebook’s received a lot of attention in the three days since I posted about their use of users’ profile pictures in ads. Numerous blogs have covered the story since, including both DownloadSquad and Mashable, which invariably led to enough of a ruckus that Facebook felt inclined to address the matter.
David Swain, of the Product and [...]