Facebook images gone Anyone find that their images no longer show on Facebook? Been happening at Amazon regularly, but this is the first time they are gone from my Timeline as well as on pages (the Lucire one, and Keith’s Valerie Leon one, shown above).
Facebook takes Timeline away from New Zealanders One of my old adages is: when you are stuck, do the opposite of what a computer expert tells you.
That implies that whatever a computer expert tells you is the opposite of the truth.
So it was the case today with Facebook Timeline. Despite going on about how New Zealanders would get Timeline first, ahead of the rest of the world, the opposite has happened.
Those of us on Timeline were demoted back to the old Facebook wall, based on what just happened on my account. It’s the opposite of what Facebook has been telling the world.
The Lifespan of a LinkHow long is a link “alive” before people stop caring? Does it matter what kind of content it is, or where you shared it? At bitly we see a lot of links, and while every link is special, we’re learning a few general principles that we can share.
In general, the half life of a bitly link is about 3 hours, unless you publish your links on youtube, where you can expect about 7 hours worth of attention. Many links last a lot less than 2 hours; other more sticky links last longer than 11 hours over all the referrers. This leads us to believe that the lifespan of your link is connected more to what content it points to than on where you post it: on the social web it’s all about what you share, not where you share it!
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Link life Fascinating—and I have always wondered this.
England riots: pair jailed for four years for using Facebook to incite disorder
Two men have been jailed for four years for using Facebook to incite disorder.
Jordan Blackshaw, 20, from Marston near Northwich, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, from Warrington, appeared at Chester crown court on Tuesday. They were arrested last week following incidents of violent disorder in London and other cities across the UK.
Neither of their Facebook posts resulted in a riot-related event.
The continuation of the beginning of the end of Great Britain.
UK PM advocates censorship and the cessation of free speech … of course
So it has been widely reported that UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has considered a crack down on social network tools, like Twitter and Facebook, when being used by those involved in unrest:
[W]e are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it…
Excellent points today from Stowe Boyd. I agree with him: the conditions created by the government led to the unrest. Social media are being made out to be the scapegoat, which Cameron and the Tories now seek to control. Politicians have never had much of a grasp of the internet—one New Zealand politician thinks it’s Skynet, having a bit of trouble distinguishing real from unreal.
The end of Britain as we know it?
I ain’t taking no jive from no Western Union messenger Though I did take this jive. Quite a cool little Facebook app showing how you’re connected. (Took two attempts to get it working.)
Global Map of Social Networking 2011 by Global Web Index
Social networking’s 2011 state of play An impressive map on social networking.
Google Plus / Facebook / Twitter comparaison en 1 image par Stephano Epiphani
How Plus compares Finally, a fair comparison between Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.
More from the Google Kool-Aid drinkers Not that accurate. You’d have to take into account the time Google took to amass a following, considering most Plus users were already Google users. Twitter and Facebook took 700-plus days to get to that point because they had to acquire their users from scratch.
Even if you don’t want to start counting from the late 1990s, the Kool-Aid drinkers conveniently forget the flops that were Buzz and Wave. At the very least, fairness should dictate that their poor starts need to be factored in to this graph. If Google had not learned from either, it would have not got Plus to where it is.
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Source: marketingpilgrim.com
Facebook and Twitter are broadcast design models; Google Plus is a sharing design model
John Tropea takes a pass at explaining how sharing works on Google+ (Google Plus):
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How is it different to Facebook and Twitter?
As an online relationship model; Facebook is symmetric, Twitter is asymmetric, and Google Plus is asymmetric
- Follow (asymmetric) - enables you to follow people (those people don’t have to follow you back in order for you to see their content in your stream…you are basically their fan)
- Public - your posts are shared in the public
Google Plus
- Friend (symmetric) - you cannot read and send each other updates unless you both follow each other (this is called “friend”)
- Private - you posts are not shared in the public, instead they are shared with all your friends only (this is called a “walled garden”)
- Selective Reading & Sharing - you can also read and share with just a selection of people (this is called “Lists”…this isn’t a primary design feature and isn’t used that much as far as sharing goes)
- Follow (asymmetric) - enables you to follow people, just like Twitter, where those people don’t have to follow you back
- Public and/or Private - your posts can be shared in the Public, or just shared with All Circles or a selection of Circles
- Selective Reading - you can also read posts in a stream from just a selection of people you follow (this is called “Circles”)
- Selective Sharing - you can also share posts with just a selection of people (this is called “Circles”)…BUT unlike Facebook, unless “those people you follow in your circle” follow you back, they won’t see your post in their stream, instead they will see it in an alternative stream called “Incoming”.
This is the sort of bias I see when people talk about Google Plus positively. Read it closely, and you’ll see Google Plus’s two last bullet points are condensed into one under the Facebook listing. I admit I like the way Circles works and it’s a lot more human, but I’ve always had that functionality on Facebook. It’s not as well designed but to claim that it wasn’t a ‘primary design feature’ is not altogether true. I remember a Limited Profile class in Facebook since I joined (2006).
You can say the Google design is better, and few would disagree, but I would argue that Facebook has made this part of its offering from nearly the start. And soon after that, it allowed you to create more than one class, or circle, of friends—just like Google has—and publicized it quite widely. I still see it as a primary design feature, and use my different Facebook circles regularly.
Quick and mostly irrelevant thoughts from a 
