David A. Yovanno is the CEO of Gigya, Inc. , a leading social optimization platform for online business. He can be found on Twitter at @daveyovanno or e-mail dave(at)gigya(dot)com. Now that most social networks are supporting functionality on third party sites — via Facebook Connect , Sign in with Twitter , Yahoo! Open Strategy, MySpaceID, and other similar technologies — entertainment com...
Social networking has finally become something valuable for brick-and-mortar businesses. Smartphones and location-based social networks allow users to interact, share, meet up, and recommend places based on their physical coordinates. This real-world connection to social media can mean more foot traffic and profits for business owners. So-called “lo-so” networks like Foursquare , Loopt , and G...
If you're on Facebook you've probably gotten a notification or two that a friend can now see who is looking at their profile "and it really works!" Actually, "and it really works" is usually "AND IT REALLY WORKS," because everything is more convincing when shouted!
So, can your friends tell if you've been stalking them? Facebook says "no." Let me restate that for them, "NO!!!" Shouting--und...
RootMusic enables the seemless creation of robust Facebook band pages and then allows fans to add thew artist as a tab to their own existing Facebook Page. And unlike standard Facebook pages where the music stops when the fan begins any other activity; with RootMusic, they can listen while they read news, comment,etc. Artists can also enable song downloads and integrate a Twitter feed. A quic...
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Having been to Paris, I can tell you that it’s a city you won’t be able to fully fathom in a week or a month — it takes a lifetime to see all the city has to offer. This was before, of course, this amazing 26-gigapixel panorama of Paris was created; it won’t replace actually visiting Paris, but with all of its amazing details, it gets pretty darn close. Paris 26 Gigapixels is a stitching of 2,3...
According to BusinessWeek , internet giants Google and Facebook have been sued by a New York-based company called Wireless Ink Corp. The legal challenge is reportedly over a patent relating to software the allows people to interact with a social network using a mobile phone. Wireless Ink Corp., the owner of a site called Winksite, claim Google and Facebook are infringing US Patent No. 7,599,983...
What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quite a chore, as I need to log into over 10 different services before I start doing anything. Now, Mozilla sets out to alleviate this issue with a new Firefox plugin called Account Manager. It currentl...
Reuters has published some social media guidelines in its handbook of journalism. Dean Wright, Reuters' global editor for ethics, innovation and news standards, announced the new guidelines yesterday. While the guidelines encourage Reuters journalists to use social media and stress that it is a powerful new tool, Reuters journalists are asked to get in contact with their line manager if they...
When it comes to social networking threats, when it rains, it pours. Sophos's David Schwartzberg alerted me to a new Facebook attack this evening that could lure in even the most sophisticated of computer users.
It started out with David getting a random chat from a Facebook friend. Since David works for Sophos, his Spidey sense was tingling.
He suspected something was up based on the beggin...
Earlier this week, BoomTown visited MySpace HQ in Beverly Hills, Calif. to interview its new co-presidents , Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, and get a look-see at its evolving revival plans to stop the social networking ship from sinking further.
Thus, I got a tour of a storyboard-like room at MySpace, where the team is trying to formulate the “discover and be discovered” motto it is now us...
We’ve seen many, many iterations of the popular tower defense games over the years, but this one has a special meaning for all you Twitter fans out there. Based on a tried and true concept, Tweet Defense is an iPhone game that lets you fight zombies with various tower defense units, but with a social twist: it grabs your various Twitter stats – number of followers, friends and tweets – and ca...
Along with 50 initial partners, Manymoon , the social productivity start-up that makes one of the more popular tools on Google’s apps platform, has joined the Google Apps Marketplace store rollout at the search giant’s Campfire One developer event tonight.
Manymoon’s exec spoke at the event, along with Intuit (INTU), Atlassian and Appirio.
(You can watch the event here .)
The San Francisc...
Facebook’s move into location has seemed inevitable for some time, and it now appears that the company will reveal its plans at next month’s Facebook developer conference – f8. According to The New York Times , the social network will incorporate location in two ways: (1) its own features for sharing location and (2) APIs to let other apps – presumably the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla – offer...
To update yesterday's story, the attack on Twitter pushing diet pills appears to be the result of weak passwords combined with brute force. Thank you to the users who contacted me, as the data you provided was helpful in researching this attack.
After cleaning up his account, John C. Dvorak admitted to having a weak password on his Twitter stream. Other affected users have also reported using ...
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I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of a reddit or Digg style system for scientific queries. When StackOverflow came along, it was clear (to me at least) that a StackOverflow-like system was the future of technical Q*A sites. Enter StackExchange , which provides exactly that, and StackExchange sites have been sprouting up around the web. Egon start...