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Aug
23

Why you shouldn’t trust Google+ Verified Accounts

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Alyssa Milano, Britney Spears, Celebrity, Confidence trick, Dolly Parton, google, google plus, Lady Gaga, Malware, Public figure, social network, Spam, twitter, verified accounts Leave a Comment

Google may have started to roll out verification badges for celebrities and public figures who have Google+ accounts. But, unfortunately, it’s not going to close the door to fraud on the fledgling social network.

The idea is to make it easier for members of the public to tell if they’re the person you’ve added to a Google+ circle is the real Dolly Parton, the real Britney Spears or the real Alyssa Milano.

According to a Google+ post by Googler Wen-Ai Yu about the initiative, verified accounts have a grey checkmark next to their name. Rolling your mouse over the tick, shows that it is a “verified name”.

So, for instance, Britney Spears now has a verified account on Google+ :

Facebook: Google+ has no users

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Altimeter Group, Angry Birds, Bradley Horowitz, Casual game, facebook, FarmVille, google, Jeremiah Owyang, Mark Zuckerberg, McDonalds, social network, Starbucks, ThinkEquity Leave a Comment

Facebook executives have choice words for Google’s efforts to bring casual games to its fledgling social network.

A little less than two months after Google launched its fledgling social network, Google+, Silicon Valley’s latest rivalry is heating up.

Google+ (GOOG) launched in June with an innovative group video chat dubbed Hangout. One week later, Facebook announced a video chat feature of its own in cooperation with Microsoft’s (MSFT) Skype. Last week, Google announced that games like Zynga Poker and Angry Birds would find a home on Google+. A day later, Facebook unveiled a slew of improvements to its games platform, including a newsfeed-like live ticker with game updates and higher-resolution gaming.

If it wasn’t clear before, it is now: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is paying very close attention.

4 Ways Non-Profits Can Jump Into Google+

Category: Social, Technology Tags: AARP, facebook, google, Hangout Industries, iPhone, National Wildlife Federation, Non-profit organization, social network, Susan Moody, Worldreader, Zoe Fox Leave a Comment

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Post from Mashable Authered by Zoe Fox

If you and your non-profit have steered clear of Google+ during its “people only” phase, now is a good time to reconsider. Yes, your Facebook and Twitterpresences are still important — and will continue to be — but the new social network in town has lots of great features you can take advantage of right now.

While Google publicly announced that group and business pages are imminent, non-profits should not wait to wet their feet. Non-profit social media consultant Beth Kanter recommends communications staff spend 15 minutes each day dabbling in the new network.

We asked non-profit staff for their best practices experimenting with Google+ and their hopes for the future of the new social network. Here are four ways non-profits can make the most of the growing network.

The MySpace puppies hack that wasn’t

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Anonymous, Clickjacking, Confidence trick, Defacement, Error message, hack, myspace, Neutering, puppies, scare, social network, The Next Web, twitter, website Leave a Comment

Early on Friday, visitors of the MySpace website were presented with a curious message that left many users believing that the service had been hacked.

We messed up our code so bad that even puppies and kittens may be in danger. Please turn back ...now.

* Have your pet spayed or neutered.

Facebook Storing Numbers From Your Smartphone: What You Need To Know

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Android, Confidence trick, Contact list, facebook, Facebook Contacts, Facebook Contacts Numbers, Facebook Phone Numbers, Facebook Phone Numbers Contacts, Facebook Privacy, Friends, iPhone, Phone Numbers On Facebook, Privacy, social network, Telephone directory, Telephone number Leave a Comment

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Facebook users have a new privacy concern after discovering that the social network apparently stores a list of phone numbers belonging to your Facebook friends and, apparently, to contacts stored in the mobile device that you use to access Facebook’s mobile app. (Before you panic, this list is not publicly visible to your entire social network.)

According to The Washington Post, this Phonebook Contacts feature has been live for “a few years,” though many users are just noting its existence.

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Aug
11

By pratyushkp

Bit.ly Buys Twitterfeed

Category: Social, Technology Tags: CrunchBase, facebook, Light-year, LinkedIn, Mario Menti, RSS, social network, Startup company, twitter, Twitterfeed Leave a Comment

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he web’s dominant URL shortener, Bit.ly, has acquired social publishing tool Twitterfeed.

Twitterfeed is a tool that automatically publishes RSS feeds to social networks with a title and shortened Bit.ly link. Using the service, you can set your blog up to post to your Twitter account, or your Twitter RSS to publish to your LinkedIn page.

While some Twitterfeed functionality might pop up in Bit.ly at some point, it’s not the technology that Bit.ly is after.

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