Here’s another quick tip for those people finding pages appearing in their Facebook feeds with updates whilst having no recollection of liking them in the first place. Periodically pruning your “likes” can be beneficial in reducing the noise in your news stream whilst giving you an opportunity to review what you like as time progresses. …
Tag: Social Networking
Sep 02 2011
Panasonic Live @ IFA
Another quick one for tonight. A lot of electronics vendors are at IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin) for the next few days to show off their wares and latest advancements in their product lineups. Panasonic had a Q&A this evening with one of their product experts live from the floor of the IFA which worked incredibly …
Aug 29 2011
Disable Social Advertising on LinkedIn
This might have gone under the radar for many people who use LinkedIn in terms of being opted in for “social advertising” on its service. In a nuthshell, your photo and name may be used in ads shown to other members of LinkedIn in relevance to companies and services when you make recommendations or follow …
Aug 11 2011
Hide Your Google Plus Profile From Search Engines
As more and more people are trying out Google Plus a good number of them will be conscious of the default setting to make it visible in results generated by the various search engines. If you are one of those people, this is how you can change the search visibility of your profile to suit. …
Jul 14 2011
Indirect Twitter Integration in Mango Update for Windows Phone
One of the great features of Windows Phone 7 is its ability to integrate with social networking services such as Facebook directly through the phone and other services such as YouTube, WordPress LinkedIn through your Windows Live account to your Windows Phone. Of course, the most glaring omission at the moment is Twitter. Sure, you …
Jun 18 2011
Why an Official Facebook App for iPad is Nearly Useless
Over the last few days there have been murmurs of an official Facebook app for the iPad which has been noticeably absent given high expectations when the iPad was launched last year. As time wore on, people came to accept that an app was just a fairytale and that using the full website in Safari …
Jun 06 2011
Google “Plus One” – A Human Factor in Search?
In what looks like a potential emulation of the concept of “liking” something on Facebook, Google quietly rolled the ability to “+1” (or “plus one”) a piece of content you might come across on the internet in the last few months. Furthermore, it also allows your searches to be enriched (or potentially polluted depending how …
May 21 2011
Share Book Quotes From Your Kindle to Twitter and Facebook
In my wanderings through the Kindle DX manual I came across a feature that I found quite intriguing in the form of being able to link your Kindle to social networking sites (at this stage Twitter and Facebook). I thought was a great little feature as I could share interesting or, more likely, humourous passages …
Apr 15 2011
NAB Caught Napping Once Again
One way or another, many of us have been affected by the National Australia Bank (NAB) again suffering problems with updating the accounts of its many customers. This comes nearly six months after a similar incident that affected people right around the country. The Twitter account for NAB copped a pasting today whilst all the …
Apr 10 2011
Reppler: A Service to Monitor Your Facebook Activity
Just a quick note tonight A new service called Reppler was brought to my attention earlier in the week and so I am checking this out. This service advises that it can be used to provide an inward looking impression of your activities as well as what potentially inappropriate content you might be publishing to …
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