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Facebook and Privacy: a Neverending Story - December 10th, 2009

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 [...]

Tags: facebook, fail, privacy
Posted in fail, news, social-media, social-networking

 

Google Search to Incorporate Real-Time Data - December 7th, 2009

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 [...]

Tags: bing, facebook, google, myspace, news, twitter, win
Posted in google, news, social-media, social-networking, twitter

 

Really, Mashable? - November 10th, 2009

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.

Tags: facebook, fail, mashable
Posted in fail, social-media, social-networking

 

[Update: NO] Twitter Lists Now Incorporating TweetDeck Groups? - November 6th, 2009

[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 [...]

Tags: fail, tweetdeck, twitter, twitter lists
Posted in fail, social-media, social-networking, twitter

 

Why Twitter Lists Don't Make Sense - November 5th, 2009

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, [...]

Tags: fail, ft. hood, mashable, media, ny times, twitter, twitter lists
Posted in fail, news, social-media, social-networking

 

Trashing Up Twitter (more): Donald Trump?? - September 10th, 2009

Image via Twitter Search 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.

Tags: donald trump, fail, spam, twitter
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