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Facebook's Timeline Allows You To Fit Entire Life in Profile
Facebook launched Timeline at F8 today. It allows you to cover your entire life. And it works on mobile.
Timeline is a graphic-heavy chronological display of your entire life. Facebook no longer works like a blog that puts the newest stuff on top.
Meet Bryce Roberts: The Man Who Challenged AngelList
Bryce Roberts is co-founder of O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) and an investor worth paying attention to. Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist, the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine.
Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake City's Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community.
Sprint Launches "Sprint ID:" App Packs and Customizations for Android Phones
At this week's CTIA Enterprise and Applications conference in San Francisco, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse announced a new project called "Sprint ID," aimed at mobile phone customization. The Sprint ID service lets users create separate mobile profiles for work and play, each with their own application packs, wallpapers, widgets and ringtones. Initially, Sprint ID will only be offered on new Android handsets including the Samsung Transform, LG Optimus S and Sanyo Zio, but the plan is to roll out the service to all Sprint devices in the future.
Facebook's High Pressure Tactics: Opt-in or Else
Facebook users who choose not to link their user accounts to Facebook's public Pages are ending up with blank profiles containing no information at all. If you haven't experienced this problem, it's probably thanks to the somewhat high-pressure tactics Facebook is using to get you to accept these changes.
The next time you visit your Profile page (if you haven't done so already), you'll be introduced to the new "Connected Profiles" option, one of the many potentially concerning privacy-related changes announced at Facebook's f8 developer conference last week. With this option, the text in your Facebook profile section where you list your hometown, education, work and interests, is now being linked to the respective pages on Facebook. So for example, if you live in New York, that's linked directly to a page for New York. If your favorite TV show is "Lost," you'll be linked to that show's page, and so on.
Those who choose not to link, though, are informed via a Facebook pop-up box that their Profile page will be left empty.
Too Easy: How a Simple Hack Can Turn Your Numeric Google Profile URL Back into a Gmail Address
Over the last few days, there has been a lot of buzz about how much private information your public Google profile contains if you don't choose the right settings. The URL of your profile alone can already give away your Gmail address. To hide this address from public view, you can switch your profile URL away from showing your name to using an address that features a 21-digit number instead of your username. However, as it turns out, this isn't a foolproof method either. By using a very simple trick, anybody can quickly figure out your Gmail address from these numbers.
New Profiles Turn Windows Live Into a Social Networking Service
Microsoft announced Windows Live Profiles today, which takes some lessons from social networking sites and FriendFeed. The new profile page provides a central hub for all your online activities on Windows Live. More interestingly, your profile can also aggregate updates from other services, such as your Twitter account, your blog feed, reviews from Yelp, or photos you have posted on Flickr. You can also feed any standard RSS stream into your profile. While Microsoft doesn't state this explicitly, these new profiles really tie all of the new and old Live Services together into a social networking site.
The New MySpace Profiles: Granular Privacy, W3C Compliance
MySpace launched "Profile version 2.0" late last night and a number of the changes are quite significant. The two biggest in our minds are the ability to set different privacy controls for different parts of a user's profile and the near complete adherence to W3C HTML standards.
As MySpace develops, so develop the next generation of mainstream web users and thus the web at large. Whether you're a MySpace user or not, it's worthwhile to keep an eye on what the company is doing - especially in terms of user experience.
MySpace Profile 2.0 Takes Visual Cues From Facebook
Earlier this month we asked if Facebook was becoming more like MySpace. We noted that there were new apps cropping up that were making Facebook look a lot more like MySpace. MySpace has started to open up alpha testing for its Profile 2.0 service. We caught a sneak peek and it seems that now MySpace is now taking a few visual cues from Facebook.
MeeID: A Simple App For Your Online Identity
Throughout the years, many sites have attempted to organize our online identities. There are people search tools like Spock, Naymz, and Rapleaf, to name a few that can locate your profile across the web and display for others to see. More recently, lifestreaming services like FriendFeed, SocialThing, or Profilactic act as homes to your online identity. These social media aggregators to combine your web profiles in one spot and stream your activity in near real-time. But if you just want a simple way to introduce yourself via an online profile, there really hasn't been a great way to do so except for putting up an "About Me" page on your personal web site.
Today, though, you'll finally have a new option for sharing who you are with the rest of the world: MeeID.com. This simple web app is easy, straightforward, and entirely customized by you.
Keep Your Profiles in Sync with Atomkeep
There's a new social network that pops up everyday. Most of us can't count on one hand how many social networks that we are currently apart of. Even with all these networks, there's only a handful that we continuously update. Sometimes there's just too many and some get left behind in the tedious process of updating our profile information. Atomkeep aims to help you keep all your profiles in sync with the click of a button.
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