Tag: social networking
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Living In The Future
Google+ Hangouts makes multi-user video conferencing so easy that even Dan's mother can do it. It's like living in the future.
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Eurovision Spectacular 2012
Eurovision Night 2012 is on Saturday, and it's time that we brought our disparate Eurovision Night Parties together via the power of the Internet. Let's share the experience.
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Pay To Post
Facebook is to introduce a new feature that will allow you to pay to "promote" your posts above those of your friends' other friends. Dan is reminded of Hashcash.
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Hello, Facebook; Goodbye, Facebook
Inspired mostly by his experiences with Facebook over the last few weeks, Dan decides that it's time to hang up his Wall and quit. Goodbye, Facebook. There's also instructions in this post about how to keep in touch with him, if you've forgotten how to do that outside of repeatedly clicking "Poke" on his page.
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Banned From Facebook
Dan gets banned from Facebook, for being too awesome. Or something. He wasn't really paying attention to the reason, because he was distracted by all of the adverts and clutter that Facebook's full of, these days.
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My Name Is Me
Dan goes by his full name online, and has a few issues (mostly related to the length and uncommonness of his name). But these are nothing compared to the issued faced by whistleblowers, political activists, transgendered people, teachers and those who work with children, survivors of abuse, authors with pen names, and more, as the world's social networking sites start to implement "real name" policies.
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Deliciously Silly Password Restrictions
After being reminded that social bookmarking service del.icio.us exists, Dan logs in and gives it a go. His first experience with its new version... isn't terribly promising.
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Disapora Invites
Dan has spare invitations to the alpha test version of Diaspora, a new distributed social networking service platform. Want one?
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Facebook Annoyance Of The Day
(rambling, ranty; I saw something on Facebook that pissed me off, and ended up ranting about the whole social media scene - no offence meant, and I've deliberately picked no examples from anybody I know or care about)
It's not as bad as setting up a Facebook group to recover your friends' mobile numbers after losing … -
40 Days On Facebook
I've been playing with Facebook for the last 40 days or so, to see if it's any good. Here's some of the things I've observed that I like (and don't like) about it, followed by my conclusions:
Observations
In no particular order.
Nice. It's a good platform for keeping up-to-date with your friends for …