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“Face-roulette anyone”…or are you just tired of Facebook?

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While it won’t randomly connect you to a friend,at first glance it looks like Facebook is taking a leaf out of Chatroulette’s book by launching In-Browser Video Chat next week…or is it?

Reports from TechCrunch suggest it will be in partnership with Skype after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tipped off Seattle press that the company [...]

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60 Seconds on the Internet…

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My continuing love for Info-graphics have extended to this one done by a group of Shanghai Web Designers at a company called Go-Globe.com have posted on their blog “60 Seconds – Things That Happen On Internet Every Sixty Seconds”

They suggest that on average more than a billion new pages are [...]

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Watch out Karl Stefanovic, the iPhone is coming !!!

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In a previous post I wrote about how Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth, and how concern was being raised about the current campaign by much of the international press to spread panic over emissions of radiological material from nuclear power stations in Japan. The end of that article suggested, from a [...]

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The “P” in Social Networks

Sometimes you just have to break it down to something we all understand…

 

Source: gizmodo

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Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth, isn’t it?

Take a look at the images below.

They are of the same helicopter gathering water to assist in the nuclear emergency in the North of Japan.

The first headline was written by the Huffington Post. The second (the smaller picture) was by the BBC. [Source: U-110 via Reddit]

Over at [...]

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CBA becomes Anti-Social ???

It would seem the bank has forgotten that the very nature of Social Media – conversations you have are with family and friends and not random third parties – means that if you were to see anything on your Facebook account that was negative about CBA, then it would more than likely come from family and friends. [...]

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Telstra wants to turn mobile internet users into a TRIBE

Last week (9 June 2010) I was lucky enough to listen to Telstra CFO John Stanhope addressed the annual Stockbrokers Association of Australia conference here in Melbourne.

One of the points he reinforced was about the boom in social networks via mobile.

Of the five million 3G mobile customers he advised that over [...]

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A “privacy” picture is worth a thousand words

When it comes to the privacy issues with Facebook nothing displays the reasons for concern better than the Infographics at The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook… [...]

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Social Networks are PRIVACY and not price sensative…

Yesterday I wrote an article about the Privacy debate that had be raging over Facebook’s new “Open Graph” upgrades (Click here to read the story).

The last point of my post was that Privacy (not Price like many other businesses) was the sensitivity that social networks compete on.

Well, both CNet and Forbesare reporting that [...]

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Is Facebook, or its management, becoming the privacy risk?

Protecting privacy starts with the user and not the social network. But it also provides the most competitive playing field any social network can compete on [...]

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