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I was on YouTube the other day looking for some dance videos, when I saw my 5yr old dancing her little heart out. I was horrified. Some overly enthusiastic parent had recorded one of the dance sessions from her class and posted it on YT. I don’t know what bothered me more, that I wasn’t asked for permission or the belief th (Read More)
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: "Social media is still the wild wild west without any defined rules of engagement and we are changing the rules and making new ones up as we go along. As social media mature and users realize that following or befriending ten thousand strangers doesn’t make our social life any more fulfilling, rational thinking will (hopefully) prevail and we will start taking our privacy that much more seriously."
: Miad, no thanks needed. As a parent of two girls (really - that is irrelevent) privacy needs to be treated very carefully when it is not your own ;) I learned very early on (7 years ago) when I posted some pictures of my first daughter to share with friends that when i searched her name her picture came up. In the wrong hands or if someone is online social profiling you as a prospective employee, photos that are posted without your consent can be damaging. This affects lives. There is a reason why the old adage "Think first - do second" still is a valid mantra to live by - Cheers
TechCrunch
So far the downward spiral of credit and financial markets seems to have left venture capital firms and startups relatively unharmed. Even though the IPO market closed completely in the second quarter (and opened again only slightly in the third), venture capital firms continue to raise money and invest in startups at a he (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
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words and pictures by Brian SolisBusinessWeek released its report on the 25 most influential people on the Web today as determined by the magazine’s staff.Congratulations to our friends as well as those we have yet to meet in person for making this prestigious list. I’ve included pictures of those that I have on hand.Here a (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Al Gore may not have invented the Internet, but he did co-found Current.tv, the cable TV network with a strong web presence. Stopping by the company’s San Francisco offices earlier this evening, Gore told a small group of techies, Twitterers and bloggers: “I’ll be on Twitter by tomorrow”. (Read More)
: This is ridiculous, why would anyone care what Al Gore tweets about? He is not in government, he is not in the media, he is in the movie business.
I would much rather see more congressional reps. using Twitter. I don't need anymore tweets about environmentally friendly stuff, I already have plenty of them.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Free socialmedian T-shirt to any socialmedian user who correctly guesses either Obama's or McCain's running mate selection before it is announced. You can only guess once for each and should do so by leaving a comment here. (Read More)
: Congrats to Tinch72, Rickbenavidez, & Brianhorn on correctly guessing Biden as Obama's VP selection! For correctly guessing you have all won Socialmedian t-shirts. I'll be in touch shortly to get them out to you.
ReadWriteWeb
There have been various sightings of a new design for Twitter this afternoon, though by now, Twitter has reverted back to its old design. Possibly, Twitter is testing this new design as it prepares to integrate Summize's search into its current look. The new design moves the navigation bar away from the top and to the right (Read More)
MEDIAdeluge
With all the downtime problems Twitter has been experiencing lately, it could be just a matter of time before there is a mass exodus to another service. My guess is it wouldn’t take much to trigger the exodus — at least among the early-adopting tech crowd. Because the microblogging space is so nascent, a departure of even a (Read More)
: I've been testing plurk out and highly enjoying the experience. Plurk lacks in the extensibility of twitter, but I suspect that's something that can be worked around.
: LAME-O! Plurk has decided to forbid people and also highly recommend against the things I find very helpful about Twitter! Twitter does have problems, but one of the things I like about it, is it's ability to connect me with like-minded (ie techie) people. Plurk has no search feature to help me connect, and advises "Only add people who are your good buddies. Don't add people you met for 3 minutes at a party." Dudes! Your missing the point!
: Interesting UI. I'm game to trying new social apps. The problem though is that they don't give me any instant gratification unless I patiently hang out over there and create my friends' network. Hope the recent initiatives like friend connect etc goes mainstream soon.
Valleywag
Carl Icahn's slate of replacement directors for Yahoo's board is a list of head-scratchers, except for one name. That's Mark Cuban, the guy who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1998 and used the money to buy the Dallas Mavericks. "Talk about biting the hand that feeds," writes VC blogger Fred Wilson. "It's a (Read More)
SheGeeks
The location based mobile social network Brightkite, may be facing a bit of a backlash with Twitter users. While the service is nicely gaining ground with Twitter users, there are some that are more than irritated with one of Brightkite’s most popular features: sending location updates to Twitter.Recently, prolific T (Read More)
Valleywag
Yahoo, CNET, and Plaxo are old news, according to VC blogger Fred Wilson. He writes: "I suggest you ignore all of that and focus on what went on last night in San Jose at the annual Churchill Club Dinner," where venture capitalists Roger McNamee, Steve Jurvetson, Josh Kopelman and others predicted ten upcoming trends. Ventu (Read More)