Facebook has been receiving a lot of attention lately as a result of their privacy settings. In particular the default settings on new features like the Instant Personalization through the new Graph API which launched in April . Matt McKeon has a great visual illustration on how the default Facebook privacy settings have changed between 2007 and 2010. (more…)
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Respecting Privacy, Learning from Facebook
Friday, May 28th, 2010
The Big Picture: Facebook vs USA
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
How does real population in the US compare to the Facebook population in the US? There is a great infographic from Mashable that paints a very interesting picture of the differences. At the highest level 38% of the US population has an active facebook account. It is actually pretty much the same in Canada too (12.7 million/33.9 million). (more…)
Engaging with the New Facebook
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Facebook recently launched a new Home Page design and is also planning more changes for how Facebook Applications can engage users. A fairly technical developer roadmap has been published by Facebook but we’ll try to summarize here: (more…)
Facebook and Privacy: A new policy and advice to help users protect their personal information
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Facebook has given us the tools to protect our privacy – we just have to use them! (more…)
How to use Smartphones to make your next in-person dialogue awesome!
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Smartphones bring the world into users’ hands. Web access, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and apps allow people to access, share and co-create knowledge in real time.
They are also powerful tools that can make in-person dialogues awesome – both in terms of generating shared information and giving participants a more engaging experience. (more…)
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