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Timestamp Your Facebook Timeline

Each Facebook Timeline profile now has a tiny clock icon in the status window update, allowing you to place items on your wall in the past. This is a pretty significant Facebook update considering that, initially, Timeline defaulted to publishing posts in the present only. Now the decision to travel back in time is yours. This new feature mimics…

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Facebook

Facebook Timeline & The New Lifestreaming Era

3 key points you need to know about Facebook Timeline, gleaned from two previous "lifestreaming" products: FriendFeed and Memolane. Facebook's new Timeline, currently in a limited developer release but set to be unveiled to its hundreds of millions of users any day now, is going to shake up the social networking landscape. It's going to…

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Facebook

Report: Facebook Users "Like" 31% More

Clicking the "Like" button is incredibly easy to do, and increasingly becoming the primary way people interact on Facebook. Users are engaging with Facebook pages 31% more over the last year. Of this boost in engagement, 84% turned out to be from the "Like" button, while 15% were from comments and only 1% were from shares, according to a recent…

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Digital Lifestyle

Push for Instant Police Escort

Improved mobile phone cameras and the ability to live stream anything from a phone has proved threatening to police who don't like to be filmed, but an app used by the University of Maryland police department could be the future of 9-1-1. The University of Maryland police department is testing an app that will allow police to monitor live video of…

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Government

OpenCourt Brings Transparency to Courtrooms

Courts in the United States are not just about high profile litigation and murder cases. Most of the grunt work of the U.S. legal system is done in district courts and chances are you have probably been there contesting speeding tickets or for some other menial rite of legal malaise. Yet, what you do not know about the legal process could hurt…

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Lifestreaming

Mozilla Launches sudoSocial, an Experimental Lifestream Platform

Mozilla Labs has launched a new "lifestream" platform called sudoSocial. Pulling its name from the Linux command "sudo" which allows users to run programs with other, usually elevated privileges, the sudoSocial publishing platform aims to give you both access and control over your many online identities. Although sudoSocial would be suitable…

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Analysis

Why We Need To Keep Debate Alive In A Customized, Personalized World

Maybe we're getting to be a bit of a broken record on this point, but a blog post this morning by Robert Scoble on how malleable social graphs could change the direction of location based services reminded us of the fine line we think we're all walking. Malleable social graphs, much like recommendation engines and customized searches, sound like…

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Features

PleaseRobMe and the Dangers of Location-Based Social Networks

Location-based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Google Buzz are currently among the fastest growing new mobile services. All of these apps have one thing in common: they encourage you to share your current location with the rest of the world. By doing this, though, you are also telling people where you are not: at home. A…

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Data Portability

Cliqset Transforms Social Media Feeds Into Standardized, Real-Time Data

Social media aggregator Cliqset today announced a new beta version of its platform that aggregates activity feeds from 70 different social media sites, transforms them into normalized Activity Streams standard data and then pushes them out in real time. The company's offers multiple ways to access the data through its API but also hopes that…

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Lifestreaming

Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed

In wake of the news of the FriendFeed acquisition by Facebook, we're faced with the real possibility that FriendFeed.com will be shut down for good. According to the press release, "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being..." In other words, it's only a matter of time before the site is gone for good. What is the…

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Timestamp Your Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline & The New Lifestreaming Era

Report: Facebook Users "Like" 31% More

Push for Instant Police Escort

OpenCourt Brings Transparency to Courtrooms

Mozilla Launches sudoSocial, an Experimental Lifestream Platform

Why We Need To Keep Debate Alive In A Customized, Personalized World

PleaseRobMe and the Dangers of Location-Based Social Networks

Cliqset Transforms Social Media Feeds Into Standardized, Real-Time Data

Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed