Archive for facebook

Two years ago this would have been big news

1 September 2010
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But now? The news that MySpace is letting its users synch their status updates with Facebook is just a small curio. »

How social networking should work

16 July 2010
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Excellent presentation from Google's Paul Adams about how people want social networks to behave, and in particular how we want to provide different information (and behave differently) with different groups of friends. He slightly overstates the case about existing tools not letting you do this (Facebook lets you group friends for example) but the core [...] »

How will paywalls alter online commenting habits?

28 May 2010
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Of course, if newspaper paywalls don't turn out to work outside the existing niches such as the Financial Times, their impact on general online commenting habits will be very limited. But let's assume for a moment that paywalls work well enough to spread across various newspaper and other sites. A core feature of paywalls is [...] »

Dear Facebook, I don’t like you this morning

25 May 2010
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Dear Facebook, I don't like you this morning. Why? Because you've made some changes that (a) come over as you bullying me, and (b) create a whole load of duff content that's even worse than the Google Ad revenue chasing content-free spam sites which still clog up too many search results. Facebook used to be [...] »

Paper criticises Facebook for privacy policy longer than US constitution, but its own policy is too

14 May 2010
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The New York Times has a good piece highlighting just how complex the privacy options and privacy policy have become for Facebook users. (Piece found via a work colleague's blog post.) However, the newspaper also criticises Facebook's privacy policy for being longer than the US Constitution (or rather the US Constitution without amendments, which is [...] »

Philippa Stroud: the disappearing Conservative candidate

2 May 2010
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This morning The Observer ran a piece detailing the less than savoury attitude towards homosexuality of Philippa Stroud, Conservative candidate for Sutton & Cheam and head of the influential Conservative think-tank Centre for Social Justice: A high-flying prospective Conservative MP, credited with shaping many of the party’s social policies, founded a church that tried to “cure” [...] »

Daily View: the virtual poster special

25 April 2010
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Posters matter in election campaigns, because they show people that a party has plenty of support. Knowing that a party has lots of support in turn encourages other people to vote for that party. So last Sunday’s Daily View was a poster special with one you can print off and put in your window. Today it’s [...] »

A question for those interested in the internet and politics…

18 April 2010
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The Facebook group We got Rage Against the Machine to #1, we can get the Lib Dems into office! continues to grow at a remarkable pace. It is now bigger than the Conservative and Labour Facebook pages combined. It is also now bigger than the party's paid-up membership. I think this is the first time [...] »

Televised leaders debate: the technological winners

18 April 2010
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When I first wrote about the winners and losers from Thursday night's TV debate between Brown, Cameron and Clegg I only briefly touched on technology: Winner – TV Loser – internet The TV audience peaked at just under 10m, far more than any online audience for a UK political event. TV kept on broadcasting whilst Facebook [...] »

Unofficial Lib Dems overtake official Conservatives on Facebook

16 April 2010
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I wrote previously about how often it is the unofficial online groups supporting a party or candidate that garner energy and enthusiasm beyond that which the official presences manage. That's been demonstrated again today, in the aftermath of the first televised debate between the party leaders. Paul Waugh has documented how various official party profiles [...] »
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