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daily pointers
AORTAL - the anti-portal,
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'community of storytellers'
Cowbird - A witness to life (About)Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events and universal themes. Our long-term goal is to build a public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as part of the commons, available for this and future generations to look to for guidance.
#OWS aggregator
OccupationalistOccupationalist is an impartial and real-time view of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Covering history as it unfolds. No filters. No delays.
'weirdly unsocial' networks
The Social Graph is Neither[Valhalla Island]Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire driving force behind a site like Facebook.
new in social media
From its Preamble:
Today, social media has reached a decisive crossroads. The direction we choose to take will affect the course of human events and shape our destiny. Facebook has established a social media cyber-monopoly that tramples on our rights and limits our freedoms. The history of Facebook is a history of arrogance and repeated exploitation of the people. Its dictatorship must end. Social media must turn in a new direction. The time has come for the people to rise up and declare their emancipation.
'there's an app for that!'
How To Improve Your Burglary SkillsA note to burglars: The above link is not intended for your use – just move along please…;-))
'power over vulnerable people'
"Real Names" Policies Are an Abuse of Power
Related:
Google [former] CEO Eric Schmidt regarding real names on G+
'be yourself online'
My Name Is MeSupporting your freedom to choose the name you use on social networks and other online services.
'some other purpose'
Why I'd never work for Google, Twitter, or FacebookGoogle+ isn't about sharing cat pictures, it's about serving ads. Twitter's massive network of 140-character bits of information isn't about connecting people across the globe or to view current trends in worldwide thinking, it's about serving ads. Facebook isn't about entertaining yourself with games or sharing interesting links, it's about serving ads.
low, one-time cost
WhatsApp MessengerWhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia and yes, those phones can all message each other! Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends.
Note: This is not an endorsement.
social journalism
storyfulStoryful uses the power of social networks to create an authentic, cooperative and socially useful journalism.
a 'minimum safe distance'
My Internet FaceSo is it worth it, should I give the ill-begotten miscreant teenager that is Facebook another try?
interesting concept in the works
ThimblWelcome to thimbl, the free, open source, distributed micro-blogging platform. If you're tired of being locked in to one micro-blogging platform, or a single social network. Or you're weary of corporations hi-jacking your updates in the pursuit of money, then thimbl is for you.
Thimbl is currently not ready for the world! We're still putting the finishing touches on what we hope will be a useful and successful application.
unauthorized data sharing
Facebook's Instant Personalization: An Analysis of Fundamental Privacy Flaws
a parody with a point
Openbook - Connect and share whether you want to or not"They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
'social knowledge'
Panmind – "Knowledge sharing, online collaboration and social networking: three big potentials of the Web in a single platform."
common sense...
Top 8 Things You Shouldn't Give Social Networking SitesRelated: Social Networking Privacy: How to be Safe, Secure and Social
'for the imaginatively challenged'
Generatus | Social Networking Status GeneratorNote: affiliate link-supported.
Be a phony ho!
Buy Comments for your Blog or Facebook Page. Start the Conversation. Amazing! And ridiculous.'interact with music'
ccMixter – "a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want"which comes first
Excessive internet use is linked to depressionOur research indicates that excessive internet use is associated with depression, but what we don't know is which comes first - are depressed people drawn to the internet or does the internet cause depression?
Is your data safe?
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, millions of accounts exploitableFacebook and MySpace fixed this quickly after being notified...
'not clever'
Alienatr - another stupid social, web 2.0 website with a missing vowel in the title. [The Letter]'silent crowds'
Twitter hype punctured by studyMicro-blogging service Twitter remains the preserve of a few, despite the hype surrounding it, according to research.
Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found.
'impersonal and irrelevant'
Zach Klein: "I liked the Internet better when it was nebulous, and now I’m depressed that it shaping up to be a social pyramid."UK government is watching... (2)
Plan to monitor all internet useThe new system would track all e-mails, phone calls and internet use, including visits to social network sites.
Related post: UK government is watching you!
the long fail
A ProblemYou know you have a problem when Twitter is down, so you try to tweet that Twitter is down, but you can’t tweet that Twitter is down because Twitter is down.
UK government is watching you!
Social network sites 'monitored' – "It is part of a plan to store details of all phone calls, e-mails and websites visited on a central database..."unbelievably true
Twitter whoring goes mainstreamTwitter is an opt-in communications channel. People who follow John Mayer do so because they are interested in him or his music. If they were interested in Campbell’s Soup, they would have subscribed to a Campbell’s feed (if they actually have one). The message from Campbell’s was commercial in nature and unsolicited. And that equals spam.
the 'friendly' world of social media
"Twitoria finds your friends that haven't tweeted in a long time so you can give them the boot!"just so you know...
Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."
Related:
Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter
Related Update (2/18/09):
Update on Terms | Facebook
He's got a point...
BeatingAddiction - fight social network addiction through social networking? Come on now dammit!!!!don't click
Facebook users hit by virus – "The virus tricks users by telling them they're in a video..."answers on postcards - 'slow twitter'
dawdlr – "a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?"'modern self-portraits'
Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism...Social networking websites may make relationships more reliable, but whether those relationships can be humanly satisfying remains to be seen.[Justin Blanton]