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Who’s Really In Power In Your Social Networks?August 30

Today Black Web 2.0 published a article in a series of blog posts aimed at highlighting powerful people of color on Twitter. Rumor’s are flying (tweeting?) that the list is a response to the many lists published year-round neglecting women and people of color, who account for 25% of Twitter’s users. It’s an effort that fail short of expectations quite possibly because identifying power across social networks is difficult. Crowdsourcing is often the solution to turn to in cases like this and here’s why.

Big Things Come in Small Packages

It’s hard to discern who’s really in power on the web. People tend to ignore that power is based on perception and engagement more than numbers in social media. Big numbers don’t necessarily equal huge results because social networks are clusters of mobilized communities. Power is in everyone’s hands.

However, the real influence within the power of social network comes from those who speak out. Those with streams that reach outside of your typical head

Stop Your Friends From Checking You Into Facebook PlacesAugust 26

Earlier this week I tweet about wanting to use Facebook Places on a private Facebook account. However, Facebook’s history of privacy bloopers doesn’t make that a very attractive thing to do if you want to maintain the privacy of a private account. This hassle is evident with Facebook’s Friend’ Suggestions. If your profile is private, you don’t want Facebook suggesting it to people, but it’s hard to avoid and you can’t opt out. Fortunately, you can avoid being checked into a place by your friends whether you’re private or public.

Disable Tagging In Facebook Places

Disabling your friends from checking you into rather embarrassing places on Facebook is easy and simple. If you head into your privacy settings and click “customized settings” you will find an option to disable friends friends from tagging you at places. This option can be found under the “Things others share” section.

In this section you’ll also find the option to exclude yourself from being displayed in “People Here Now

Mobile News Wave: Facebook Places, Foursquare, and GoogleAugust 19

The rumors were true. Today, Facebook steps into the location-based services (or LBS) arena with Facebook Places. Now everyone is watching Foursquare, the current king of LBS. Not to mention Google acknowledged receiving 100 million Google Map users every month. The mobile space is clearly heating up and here’s what you should know about it.

Despite high numbers, Google has not been able to convert users to its LBS platform, Google Latitude, into anything close to Foursquare’s avid following. Google Maps is a great application. However, their announcement falls short of the battle going on between Facebook Places and Foursquare.

Facebook Places

Immediately Improve iOS4 Performance On Any iPhone With These TipsAugust 18

I gave iOS4 on the iPhone 3G a pretty decent review. I immediately sided with the crowd on it’s horrible performance. iOS isn’t bad. In fact I enjoy some of the new added features.  Despite this, the hardware you’re using becomes a major problem.  The iPhone 3G can’t carry iOS4 like newer models. However, after a little reseearch and testing, I’ve found 3 things that really help to improve iOS4 performance on any iPhone. Keep reading to get the scoop.

Use zToggle

zToggle is an amazing iPhone tool that allows you to toggle multitasking and wallpapers features of iOS4 on and off. Multitasking and wallpapers are heavy performance hitters on iPhone 3G. They were initially exclusive to the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.

Thanks to some amazing jailbreak devs, these features can be activated on the iPhone 3G. To skip this “upgrade” nightmare use zToggle. It gives you the option to turn these features on and off at will. I’m not a big fan of iOS4 multitasking so I’ve disabled it and kept the wallpapers. zToggle is free and available in the BigBoss Cydia repository.

*If you jailbreak your iPhone 3G with Redsn0w, you cannot disable multitasking after jailbreak. Re-jailbre

Back To School 2010: 9 Collaboration and Management Tools For StudentsAugust 17

As the new school year begins, you might be wondering how else can you use your computer to manage your studies. It seems like Microsoft Office is the only reason for a student to devote any of their PC time to school. This was once the the doomed outlook of another school year for me. Thank to the web, there are hundreds of tools out there to make school more interesting and help you manage all the projects that are sure to come your way. Here are my top 9 picks for managing and collaborating school work in and out of the classroom.

Google Docs

Collaborating on group projects can be easier with Google Docs. Students can create:

• Documents
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets
• Forms
• Drawings

All of the media create can be set for private or public use at any time. Adding members to documents is as simple as entering an email address. This collaborative writing web app allows students to work in real-time, any time.

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