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About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. He blogs mostly over on michele.blog

Google To Kill Off Private Profiles

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As Google rejigs its entire user interface and renames a bunch of its services to fit in with its new web 3.0 (or whatever) vision user profiles are being changed. ….

From July 31st 2011 private profiles are being not only disabled, but actually deleted:

The purpose of Google Profiles is to enable you to manage your online identity. Today, nearly all Google Profiles are public. We believe that using Google Profiles to help people find and connect with you online is how the product is best used. Private profiles don’t allow this, so we have decided to require all profiles to be public.

Keep in mind that your full name and gender are the only required information that will be displayed on your profile; you’ll be able to edit or remove any other information that you don’t want to share.

If you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public, you can delete your profile. Or, you can simply do nothing. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011.

Fox Twitter Account Hacked?

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Looks like one of the Fox News Twitter accounts may have been hacked, as it’s spewing “news” of Obama’s death ..

See screenshot below:

Foxnewpolitics twitter account

@Foxnewpolitics twitter account

If this is a prank it’s in pretty bad taste ..

So I would assume that the account has been compromised .. and since it’s July 4th in the US it may take longer than normal for people to notice ..

 

Twitter Hits New Record

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Twitter has released another new statistic

It’s now doing 200 million “tweets” per day. In January 2009 they were “only” sending 2 million / day.

Here’s a nice graphic to show how that all compares with various other things:

Twitter 200 million tweet comparison

Twitter 200 million tweet comparison

There’s a full blog post about it over on the official twitter blog.

Of course they’re still not issuing big media releases about their record earnings are they? Oh wait .. they can’t! Doh!

Angry Birds Gets Real

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Angry Birds is one of those games that is all too easy to dismiss, but it’s also incredibly easy to get addicted.

Just ask anyone who made the mistake of installing it on their mobile device!

But how would it play out if you brought it into the real world?

German mobile company T-Mobile did just that as part of an advertising campaign:

 

Turntable.fm Brings A Different Social Angle To Music

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I’ve seen a few “social” music services and apps over the past few years. They’ve all been quite interesting, but not overly engaging.

Turntable.fm might turn that experience on its head.

You can now chat with friends (and strangers) whilst “DJing”.

 

Play music, listen and vote

Play music, listen and vote

 

If you like a tune you can vote it up and give the “DJ” points..

Word of warning – it is quite addictive!

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Which Twitter Client Do You Use?

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If you use Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn on a regular basis then you probably don’t rely solely on the “standard” web interface. You’re more likely to be using some kind of desktop (or mobile) client.

Personally I’ve been a big fan of Tweetdeck, but the last few days it has become more unstable than usual and has become practically impossible to use.

I asked a few people what they’d recommend and got some interesting replies.

Here are a few of them:

Hootsuite

Twitter (official)

Twitterific

Seesmic (desktop and web)

Echofon

Chromedeck

 

So what do you use? And, more importantly, why?

Social Is All About Permission

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If you’re going to use “social” as part of your online strategy you need to remember a key concept.

Permission.

Earlier this morning I got an email “invite” from a contact to join a site that likes to see itself as being “social”.

I ignored the invite but the wording of the email really touched a nerve:

Skillpages unsubscribe email footer

Skillpages unsubscribe email footer

Why on earth would I “unsubscribe” from something I’d never subscribed to in the first place?

Who gave them permission to “subscribe” me in the first place?

It is possible that this is just bad wording on their part and that what they actually mean is that clicking on the link will “block” my email address from being used ..

Now why don’t they actually say that?

It’s also worth noting that Facebook’s notifications include equally misleading wording, so Skillpages aren’t alone in this.