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11:50 • 2 weeks ago

Tags: twitter social media two-step two-step authentication two-factor es 4 • Permalink

seldo asks: Your point about two-factor auth at Twitter is fair, but these large brands can already be using third-party tools like Hootsuite to give individuals access to major accounts in a much more controllable way, and using insanely long, private master passwords for the accounts themselves.

» SFB says: This is a fair point regarding my argument last night. (Though if you read Twitter’s recommendations, they seem skeptical of this as well. “Even if you use a third-party platform to avoid sharing the actual Twitter account password, each of these people is a possible avenue for phishing or other compromise,” they write.) It’s also a good work-around to Twitter’s lack of two-step, though, because you can log in via OAuth and Facebook Connect, allowing you to tie into Google and Facebook’s two-step logins. Not everyone is psyched to use such tools like HootSuite, but it’s certainly a reasonably good choice for large organizations. The fact of the matter is, we’re giving the same level of security to everyone that joins Twitter, and when you’re Twitter’s size, it doesn’t make sense. If they can’t pull it off for everyone all at once, two-step for verified accounts would be a great start. — Ernie @ SFB

18:13 • 3 weeks ago

Tags: marco arment instapaper es betaworks digg social media 22 • Permalink

So, Digg owner BetaWorks bought Instapaper.

Last summer, New York-based hybrid investor/incubator/holding company thing Betaworks acquired social news site Digg and relaunched it soon after, hoping to bring back some of its mojo in the process. Nine months later, Betaworks has acquired news-oriented company, this time bringing Marco Armentâ..

That’s a pretty big deal. Combined with Digg and Bit.ly, it sort of makes them a force on the content-sharing front. According to Marco Arment (a Tumblr co-founder who originally built Instapaper as a weekend side project), “I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.”

19:55 • 2 months ago

Tags: matthew keys matt keys social media journalism anonymous news media sm 12 • Permalink

I am fine. I found out the same way most of you did: From Twitter. Tonight I’m going to take a break. Tomorrow, business as usual.

March 14, 2013

This is Keys’ first (and only) public statement since news of his indictment this morning. source

15:06 • 2 months ago

Tags: Tech Facebook News Feed Design Social Media sc 21 • Permalink

Another Facebook Redesign: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the site’s redesigned News Feed on Thursday morning, revealing an even greater emphasis on photos and check-ins than before. While the changes are likely to be met with the same criticism that accompanies most social network redesigns these days, we have to admit we’re fans of the new-look photo captions. We’re still not going to check-in anytime we manage to sneak away from work/home for a few minutes though. (Photo via AllThingsD) source

19:24 • 2 months ago

Tags: twitter social media pew pew research center microblogging tumblr 92 • Permalink

Twitter users are considerably younger than the general public and more likely to be Democrats or lean toward the Democratic Party.

Pew Research Center • Discussing Twitter’s demographics compared to that of the general public—specifically noting that Twitter is not a microcosm of the general public and should not be treated as a source for public sentiment surveys. Clearly Pew has never searched the #TCOT tag on Twitter.

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18:57 • 2 months ago

Tweetdeck for dummies

Tags: tweetdeck twitter es social media your brain will melt trying to follow it all from memejacker 173 • Permalink

avrillavigneamvs240p: whats tweetdeck

» SFB says: Twitter for people who want to grow old really, really fast. — Ernie @ SFB

(Source: theverge.com)

17:22 • 2 months ago

Tags: social media cult of apology apology oscars es anti-semitism being offended from ericmortensen 69 • Permalink

So how does one achieve forgiveness from the permanently offended? Well, in the most extreme situations, there is always the shame-faced march to rehab (“It was the booze that inspired my Wagnarian fits of anti-Semitism, because such profanities don’t exist in my heart”). There is, however, a much cheaper option: the ritualistic public apology. As public pressure mounts on the offender, threatening to damage their own “brand” or a company’s earnings, a carefully crafted apology is released into the wild, America’s wounds are salved, and the braying mob moves on to its next victim. Nothing has changed, of course, but nothing was meant to have changed. Ours is an age of moral grandstanding—in 140 characters.

Our Insincere, Pointless Cult of Apology — The Daily Beast (via Newsweek)

This behavior existed before Twitter, but it’s certainly gotten much worse lately. (via ericmortensen)

While The Onion’s tweet was below the fray, there’s a good point being made here.

(Source: apoplecticskeptic)

13:18 • 2 months ago

Tags: app.net dalton caldwell es social networks social media 9 • Permalink

Remember that for-pay social network, App.net? They just went freemium, so now's your opportunity to try them out. Here's why they're doing it now:

We wanted to build a pleasant out-of-the-box experience for new users. We have since introduced a 3rd-party app directory, dramatically improved our signup experience, and have constantly tweaked aspects of the service based on feedback.

Remember, a very short time ago App.net existed as an idea proposed in a blogpost… not a functioning service. As stated at the time, the goal of the backing period was to determine whether a paid market existed for our platform. Since there are numerous examples of freemium business models which didn’t succeed, we wanted to be very careful in our approach to pricing. We have been spending the past few months learning and analyzing data in order to come up with a plan for a sustainable and beneficial free tier.

The free tier does have some limitations — the free accounts are invite-only, you’ll only be able to follow a maximum of 40 users, and you will have limited access to the recently-launched file mechanisms. (But this will allow you the opportunity to try out some of the really cool third-party apps for the service, such as Felix and Riposte).

By the way, now’s a good time to point out that ShortFormBlog recently joined App.net and you should follow us.

19:10 • 2 months ago

Tags: pheed do not download this app it will give you a virus a virus of lameness es social media 194 • Permalink

Oh God, it’s happening. Pheed, the social network you’d get if you combined MySpace’s business model with Limp Bizkit’s sensibility, is becoming popular with teenagers. The Nickelback of social media hath risen.

One of Pope Benedict’s last marks made? An embrace of social media

Tags: Pope Benedict XVI pope benedict social media catholic church es pope benedict catholics numbers pope benedict resigns 25 • Permalink

1.5M the number of Twitter followers Pope Benedict XVI had built up for himself in the two months he had been on Twitter. Sending just 34 tweets, he quits the post by becoming the first Pope to show an earnest embrace of technology. Prior to the move, 53% of U.S. internet users were unaware of the Pope’s online presence.

13:20 • 5 months ago

Tags: instagram es social media terms of service let's keep ruining our service from bestrooftalkever 1073 • Permalink

"You agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you."

bestrooftalkever:

jhermann:

jennydeluxe:

From Instagram’s recently updated Terms of Service.

Also: “We may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such.”

PS: There’s no way to opt out of any of this, other than to quit using Instagram.

oh cool

All my mirror shots and food photos are going to make for great ad campaigns!

Instagram is like 0/5 in the last two weeks.

09:12 • 5 months ago

Tags: John Pavlus twitter facebook social media social networks instagram es 37 • Permalink

The essential value of these information technologies – their ability to seamlessly interface with each other as only bits, rather than atoms, can – is being purposely eroded.

MIT Technology Review contributor John Pavlus • Discussing the current trend of social media networks breaking their apps’ ability to share to gain competitive advantages, particularly in the case of Twitter and Instagram. Pavlus, understandably, mocks them: “The vision is almost comically retrograde: Twitter, Google, Apple, and Facebook each seem to think that they can provide every conceivable digital functionality to the user all on their own at each other’s expense, much like GM’s ‘kitchen of tomorrow’ at the 1964 World’s Fair promised to meet every need of a 20th-century housewife with one brand.”

13:59 • 5 months ago

Tags: senator politics politician gangam style dancing debt young people young adult social media youtube twitter money wyoming republican es from nationaljournal 76 • Permalink

nationaljournal:

In which former Senator Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., dances Gangnam Style. The reason? He wants young people to become involved in a discussion about cutting the national debt. Does this video inspire you to become involved?

This is the sight of a man saying, ”Screw it. Nothing else has worked.”

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