With New Profile Design, Facebook Launches List Sharing (Like Twitter’s, but Better)
Facebook has had lists long before Twitter – I remember writing about them in I’m on Facebook–Now What??? almost 3 years ago. Lists are a powerful, but less-used (according to Mark Zuckerberg) feature of Facebook that enable anyone on Facebook to customize their status updates and Privacy settings so that only select groups of friends […]
Read more...Google Changes the Way You Read My Feeds – You Still Have no Control
Louis Gray just reported a new way Google is trying to control the problem of mine and Louis’s and Robert Scoble and Mashable, and more of the more active feeds and streams on Google Buzz taking over the streams of our followers. The problem that was occuring is that for those with a lot of […]
Read more...Twitter Keeps Fighting While Facebook Continues to Grow
Ev Williams was quoted recently saying, “The world is big enough for both Facebook and Twitter”, almost as though we were supposed to think Twitter wasn’t trying to be a competitor. Don’t be fooled though, Twitter’s recent lists feature is just one step towards providing the privacy controls Facebook itself is known for. Before we […]
Read more...Lists Will Kill the Unfollow Star
All the rage of the blogosphere the last few days has been the launch of Twitter “Lists” to the 5,000 or so “lucky” accounts, enabling users to organize and sort their friends, as well as subscribe to large lists of friends, one list at a time. While not yet available to the masses, lists will […]
Read more...8 Late Predictions That Will Change the Web in 2009
I’ve been intending to write this all month, and until now have had to put it off due to a really busy month on SocialToo. I’ve been tracking multiple web startups this last year, and many news stories around technology. In January and end of December you may have seen the predictions of blog after […]
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