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by Collin Van Uden on March 22nd, 2012
[Image Source] A story from Associated Press has been making the rounds this week about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook login credentials during interviews. If you haven’t already, go read the article. Iit’s rife with rage inducing nuggets of derpery that have set the privacy pundits ablaze, and for good reason, but there was one snippet in [...] by Collin Van Uden on April 15th, 2010
A little while ago, after a day buried in work stuff, and a night pondering how to make this site ‘fit’ with the online world (when it evolves from being a chaotic dumping ground of sporadically interesting plugins, features, styles, naked code and other such silliness into something more elegant, stylish and with any luck – profitable) I had a thought… … Knowing the way the web works, it’s quite likely such a beast exists already – and Google have been displaying timelines with News site references for a while now – but clearly my idea is better. That doesn’t mean, however, that Google are resting on their laurels when it comes to tracking what’s going on in the land of the interwebs… [...] Tags: Communication, Facebook, google, Google, Google Docs, Innovation, News, real time web, search, Social Networking & Media, Technology, The Internet, Twitter Category: Uncategorized
by Collin Van Uden on March 12th, 2010
On the social web, and why some folk fear it… [...] Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Culture, Evolution, George Packer, I was adored once - it was in a dream and involved truffles a halbred four spanish dancing horses and a Guatamalan prostitute named Frank, Innovation, Language, Media, New Yorker, People who are smarter than me, Progress, Social Networking & Media, Social Networking & Media, Technology, The Internet, Twitter Category: Uncategorized
by Collin Van Uden on March 1st, 2010
An initiative of the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, PlanBig is a place for you to get your ‘Big Idea’ started. It’s kind of a crowdsourcing slash community outreach mashup – a concept growing in popularity on today’s social web. This is something I think Australia has needed for a little while (assuming something similar doesn’t already exist [...] Tags: Australia, Ideas, Innovation, Internet, Social Networking & Media, Technology, The Internet, Web 2.0 Category: Uncategorized
by Collin Van Uden on February 13th, 2010
A nice little tool I tripped over poking my nose over at the Google Code pages – The Recrawl Tool Over on the Social Graph API pages there’s all sorts of info for developers, the curious enquirer, scriptkiddies (and spam kings) to get their hands on. Check out the Social Graph API FAQ page for more info So, [...] Tags: google, Google Buzz, Google Social Graph API, HTML, microformats, Social Networking, Social Networking & Media, Technology, Tools, Uncategorized, XFN Category: Uncategorized
by Collin Van Uden on November 29th, 2009
So, a (nameless) friend of mine created a facebook account recently, and like many new users, made the mistake of clicking on a link sent received in her inbox. Easy mistake to make, irritating when it comes to getting rid of the resulting malware that takes up residence on your PC.
With a little assistance from TrendMicro, [...] Tags: Facebook, Facebook, Koobface, malware, Malware/Security, Security, Social Networking & Media, Technology, The Internet, Virus, Web, Worm Category: Uncategorized
by Collin Van Uden on August 19th, 2009
Rove McManus – Australian icon and Gen Y favourite, just told more than 75, 745 people that Foxtel’s phone service sucks. (In capitals, with multiple explanation marks no less.) And that’s not counting retweets to come. Business be warned – one miffed celebrity on twitter can reach more customers and have more impact than all of your [...] Tags: Australia, Business, Entertainment, Foxtel, Media, Rove, Social Networking & Media, Technology, Twitter Category: Uncategorized
by Collin Van Uden on July 21st, 2009
On ‘Disrepute’ and the birth of Social Media confusion (I mean.. Policy) It’s a big thing in Corporate policy. Even Premier John Brumby conceded the agreement to be signed by principals before the roll out of the Computers in schools program required revision in the face of it’s interpretation as a ‘gag order’. So what does disrepute mean, and how does it apply to Joe Average employee? [...] Tags: Communication, Corporate Policy, Employee, Employer, Facebook, Facebook, Google Buzz, Innovation, Social Networking, Social Networking & Media, Social Networking & Media, Technology, The Internet, The world, Twitter Category: Uncategorized
by Collin Van Uden on July 16th, 2009
There seems to be a stronger push in the corporate environment for the use of social media, both for information sharing amongst employees, and as a tool to connect with existing and potential customers. Does your workplace utilize social media? Do you think it’s useful, or useless? Does your workplace have a policy in place to control [...] Tags: Bebo, Corporate Policy, Facebook, IM, LinkedIn, Poll, Social Networking & Media, Twitter, Wiki Category: Uncategorized
by Collin Van Uden on July 11th, 2009
So, I finally decided to check out this whole Twitter fad and got to wondering – what’s going to be the best way to tweet on my WM6 PDA? After downloading a few (free) Twitter apps for WM6, I decided on these two as the main contenders: Tiny Twitter: http://www.tinytwitter.com/ Twikini: http://www.trinketsoftware.com/Twikini/. The winner? Twikini, hands down.The look and [...] by Collin Van Uden on May 8th, 2009
I’m a fan of blogging – here’s why. How do you communicate in the online world? [...] Tags: Blog, Communication, Facebook, Social Networking & Media, Technology, Twitter Category: Uncategorized
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