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April Showers Bring May Social Updates

Ignite Social Media

Controversy around Facebook’s privacy data consumed the news in April but in May, new features and announcements brought less cloudy news and more updates to look out for. Like: Facebook’s new rating system. Social Media Today reported that Facebook will be testing a new rating system for brand pages.

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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you , Digg has yet another issue to deal with: privacy.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I think it’s a bit of an intrusion on my privacy with how Spock seems to be harvesting emails. It may not be a perfect system, but it’s interesting enough to follow for awhile, and see how it pans out. For my needs, Linkedin has been the place of opportunity and twitter has been my soc system broadcasting tool.

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google. I just found a more useful way to search than Google. It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. The site that provides a better search experience than Google? 12 Comments.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media. Social media. Branding is a result of many things including your blog, your social network profile, your online resume, and how good you are at reputation management, to name a few. And they mean it, too, saying "At TCBN we respect your privacy. social networking.

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SXSW: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote (the edited liveblogged version)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Google and Microsoft are going after social networks and some people feel aren’t monetizable. Our ad system was intended to fit very organically with things on the site. There was a lot more uproar over the news feed from more users than there was with Beacon and it was primarily a concern about privacy.

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23 Reactions to the New Digg, and It's Not Good » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. Folks that spent considerable time on Digg prior to the update, by and large, were looking for a social news site. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me. Is there any?

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