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- TheSocialGeeks Episode 17 - Facebook is the universeJune 29
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An all guys roundtable discussion with Caleb Elston, Jeff Smith and myself. Just at 43 mins in length.
Find articles on our topics by following our groups bookmarks on Diigo here
* Facebook as the second Internet, has it consumed you?
* Boxee.tv on Windows
* and more....
Our advertiser for this episode is CertFX. Your online source for computer certification preparation materials. With the above link only, you can save an additional 20% with the coupon code "IdoNotes" - The Facebook credit card - coming soon (and what you get with it)June 26
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With the recent news of Facebook becoming the second Internet as we know it, they have embraced the need for consumers to track everything they purchase and where they bought it. So introducing the first image of the Facebook Citizen Preferred credit card (image below)
Imagine a social graph built around things like the following:- clothing purchased and sizes
- shoes and sizes
- movies seen and rented
- types of live events
- favorite restaurants
- where you buy groceries
- where you buy gas
- where you travel
- what hotels you like to stay in
- what kind of coffee you drink
- the list is endless....
With the new Facebook Preferred card, you not only become a consumer of these goods, but a Citizen of Facebook. Where your every movement is then tracked, graphed and soon, mapped via location services as applications in Facebook. While they build the walled garden to keep other financial institutions out, they will be growing in how much they know about you.- Advertisements will be shown that
- TheSocialGeeks Episode 16 - I Want the Post, not PreJune 17
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Awesomesauce roundtable discussion with Louis Gray, Wayne Sutton, Sarah Perez, and myself. Just at 56 mins in length.
Find articles on our topics by following our groups bookmarks on Diigo here
* Facebook Vanity URL's - should they cost you also?
* Paid Twitter feeds, yes or no?
* Mixero, LiveFlow and Floxee (see Diigo Links)
* Social identity management, do you do it correctly?
* Friendfeed colors make Sarah sick (literally)
* Quick commentary on Bing and other announcements
* and more....
Our advertiser for this episode is CertFX. Your online source for computer certification preparation materials. With the above link only, you can save an additional 20% with the coupon code "IdoNotes" - Facebook vanity URL’s tonight - not worth the face value?June 12
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As we discussed on TheSocialGeeks Episode 16, the Facebook vanity URL dam walls open tonight for those of you registered on Facebook before May 31 2009. Yes, before May 31 only. This is to prevent squatters on specific names. So what name are you going to pick? What rights do you have to that name? (Side note that the name must be 5 characters or greater, so sorry IBM, Dell, HP and KFC?) This was an important part of the discussion on the podcast and I found myself thinking more about it this morning.
Myself, I have a brand name that has been built under IdoNotes across all the networks. Well documented, shown for years and mapped to me. So I even have a case to use the form Facebook has in place when there is a conflict with someone taking your name. That brings me right to the next point. What about your common name? You know, as in "ChrisMiller"?- Who owns that right on Facebook with the hundreds of people with that name?
- Is it first come, first serve?
- What about first person that was on Facebook?
- How about the most active person?
- The one with the most friends?
- The one with the largest fan page?
- Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - The Twitter API BreakerJune 10
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This was pointed out online by Gina Trapani. With so many clients, websites and tools using Twitter under your account name, you can easily break the API rate limit for yourself and have to wait till the next hour cycle to get tweets and updates. You know you suffer from VGS when you :
- constantly trip this rate limit trying to glean as much as you can
- constantly tune how often clients update to get the maximum out of your hourly limits
- constantly close and open clients hoping that it will reset your rate limit (umm no)
- constantly open a client, check something and shut it down so you don't get blocked for the hour
- constantly watch the counter in the corner of your Twitter client
As you can see, this nervous twitch of rate limit watching is more than an affliction, it consumes you so you don't miss a single tweet. Learn to jump in the stream of information and jump out without feeling guilty. Learn to ignore the limit. If you break it, good for you, that means no distractions for the rest of the hour. Pull your eyes away from the client and take a breath. I would type more but my rate is running out.
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Created Subject 05/19/2009 Virtual Gratification Syndrome (VGS) - The Co_friend 01/27/2009 Virtual Gratif