ThisMoment A New Social Network Photo Album
Former CNET exec and former founder of Gamespot Vince Broady launched ThisMoment, a new social publishing service which is basically an enhanced photo and video album service.
From the press release: an inventive new platform for people to save and share their life’s Moments, today announced agreements with the world’s leading media companies in conjunction with the site’s public launch. As a service that incorporates everything people already do on the Web and on mobile devices – photo- and video-sharing, blogging and social networking – thisMoment allows people to easily and
spontaneously capture meaningful Moments, and share them with their family and friends. thisMoment also seamlessly integrates popular online services, including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube, making it easy for users to create and publish their Moments across the Web.
Iranians Revolts On Twitter
Iran banned foreign journalists from covering election protests by shutting down videos sites and other social media sites. Twitter rescheduled some planned downtime in order to let Iranians to voice their concerns during the election. The Iranian government didn’t think the 140 words microbloging Twitter will be a threat. Think again and don’t under estimate the power of Twitter.
Check out: http://twitter.com/IranElection
Facebook Trumps MySpace In The U.S.
ComScore research firm says that Facebook had 70.28 million U.S. users last month, topping MySpace’s 70.26 million. Facebook has 307.1 million users worldwide while MySpace has 126.9 million users. Twitter is now the third largest with 7.6 million users.
Race To Get Your Personalised Facebook URL
Facebook has begun letting user turn on user friendly url for your profile. At the moment, Facebook users profile url is created with a string of numbers, users now can choose their own url string. But they can only do this once.
Friendly url get better traction in search engines, potentially making it easier to market yourself or your event on Facebook.
Go to http://www.facebook.com/username/ to grab yourself a unique Facebook url.
Facebook Vanity URLs
Starting from this weekend, 13 June 2009, Facebook will turn on user friendly url for your profile. At the moment, Facebook users profile url is created with a string of numbers, soon users will be able to choose their own url string. But they can only do this once.
Friendly url get better traction in search engines, potentially making it easier to market yourself or your event on Facebook.
Facebook Is King Of Social Networking
Market researcher Nielsen Online has found that there is an 83% rise in the use of Facebook in the US compared to last year. Users spent 13.9 billion minutes on Facebook in April 2009.
Twitter comes in strong with 300 million minutes in April 2009. MySpace attracts just under 5 million minutes, a decreased of 31%, according to new figures from Nielsen Online. But MySpace continue to be the number one social networking site for online video.
Facebook Says Holocaust Denial Groups Will Stay
Facebook is now facing a new drama where the popular social networking site is refusing to ban Holocaust Denial Groups like the “Holocaust: A series of Lies,” and “Based on the facts…There was no Holocaust.” Holocaust deniers comes in various forms, some reject the existence of gas chambers or deny that nearly 6 million Jews died.
The US do not treat Holocaust denial as a crime, but a lot of other countries lie Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Israel, Slovakia and Switzerland do.
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said, “… although the organization does “abhor Nazi ideals and find Holocaust denial repulsive,” the popular social networking Web site believes that people have a right to discuss these ideas…We want Facebook to be a place where ideas, even controversial ideas, can be discussed.”
Source: Facebook won’t ban Holocaust denial groups
White House Now On Facebook, Twitter And MySpace
President Barack Obama’s administration has linked the official White House website to various social networking web sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. It is good to see the US government has embraced Web 2.0. Previously, the government has joined up with Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and iTunes.
Not sure if President Obama will tweet or update Facebook content himself.
Microsoft Vine: Twitter For Emergencies
Microsoft has launched a private beta of its new Vine service, which allow small groups and organizations to trade vital information emergencies. The Vine service allows you to send out Twitter-like alerts during disaster situations.
From Microsoft about Vine: Microsoft Vine aims to create an inclusive network so that ultimately anyone can participate through a social networking application such as Twitter or Facebook or using e-mail, any computer connected to the Internet or a mobile phone, kitchen phone or a special needs device.
Source: Microsoft Vine
Facebook Users Approve New Terms Of Service
75% of the 200 million Facebook members have voted for the new terms of use which give users ownership and control of their own information. Users who voted approved of a new set of Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and the forthcoming new Privacy Policy.
Previously, Facebook has angered members after putting a new Terms of Service which removed control of users privacy and user contributed data.
