The Whole Delivery

So far : Zuckerberg: Before we get into the changes we get into the changes we’re doing today. i want to go through how we got to where we are now. I think it’s really easy to lose track of the fact that the service we have today is different from what we had in 2004. Over the last year, one of the big things we looked at was News Feed. In December added per-post privacy. Another thing is applications. We started with simple model for privacy around applications – it was “Allow” or cancel. We saw over time a lot of apps just used basic information about you. Most things didn’t use friends’ photos. We felt this model wasn’t granular enough. With how these screen shots are looking...... ....There appears to be some improvement, but the full proof still needs to be provided. The ACLU of California is giving there thumbs up actually: After months of privacy-failing moves, Facebook is finally friending privacy again. Facebook’s about-face on privacy comes as a result of mounting pre...

After talking about this yesterday , Wikileaks broke the news on their Twitter page that Facebook will return their "fan page" with 30,000 fans back on the social protocol. As stated yesterday, Wikileaks "official page on Facebook" has never been tampered with. Meanwhile, King Mike is at it again , with his love of : Politico reported today that Mayor Mike trashed his longtime buddy Chuck Schumer at an April 12 meeting in Mitch McConnell's Senate office in Washington. The attack on Schumer, who supports the financial reform bill now before the Senate, is part of the oddest Bloomberg campaign yet -- his self-proclaimed crusade to protect Wall Street from even lackluster Obama regulation so they'll keep picking up the tab for our cops and firefighters. If you turned on Morning Joe Monday and Tuesday around 8, you were treated the first day to a somber but impenetrable lecture from Bloomberg about Washington's overreaching efforts to cook the city...

In the last development between tension between Wikileaks and Facebook (as well as Facebook's latest possible disturbing actions), the social protocol giant took down the "fan-generated" Wikileaks page that had 30,000 people on board and had been operating for a few years. For the moment however, the Wikileaks "Official Fan Page" on Facebook is still up. So unsurprisingly, Wikileaks tweeted about that 30,000 fan-generated page being taken down out of nowhere. In its usual snarky tone that can either make you love them or hate them, Gawker and their writer for this story in Adrian Chen points out the Facebook and Wikileaks acrimony from the past, highlighting the following episode in 2008. In short as you will see from the link , a Swiss bank named Julius Baer wanted to sue someone at Wikileaks for posting stolen documents of one of its clients. Since Wikileaks owners are basically specialist in being incognito and anonymous (up until the recent intervie...

Here we go again, thought at least this time it isn't another ploy to make your profile less private.....at first glance. They have implemented QR or Quick Response codes. Here's Tech Crunch with the few info : Judging from the tweets about this, the QR codes don’t seem to actually function yet, and the links on pages appear to come and go. We’re trying to get more information and will update accordingly. In case you’re not familiar with QR codes: QR is short for Quick Response (because they can be read quickly by a mobile phone through its camera). They are used to take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it in to your cell phone – this can be links, videos, text, photos and more. QR codes are generally more useful than a standard barcode is that they can store much more data. The other key feature of QR Codes is that instead of requiring a scanner to ‘read’ them, most modern mobile phones can convert them and there are applications out there for smar...

Basically, everyone is hating or not happy about Facebook's continued obsession for traffic by trying to be like Twitter instead of being the separate entity that it is suppose to be . Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines. It's a move we expected but the language used in the announcement is near Orwellian. The company says the move is all about helping users protect their privacy and connect with other people, but the new default option is to change from "old settings" to becoming visible to "everyone." This is not what Facebook users signed up for. It's not about privacy at all, it's about increasing traffic and the visibility of activity on the site. And : “The Facebook privacy transition tool is clearly designed to push users to share much more of their Facebook info with everyone, a worrisome developmen...

The nutcase that put up that assassination poll on Obama. Just a kid. As many of our commenters speculated, fortunately, there was not. The Secret Service has since been able to identify the person responsible, and is it turns out, it was a juvenile. According to the AP, the Secret Service met with the child and his parents, determined the poll was nothing more than a prank, and will ultimately not file charges. Now a kid nowadays can range from someone who is, say, 8 years old, to one that is, well, 17. Either way, no rational kid any age would do that. And really, was it just a joke, or was that a coverup for real anger? Who knows except that kid and his family.

Um, facebook, this was up for a while (click on to see the madness): Would be a good time to be a little faster next time taking loon stuff like that down. And oh, delete that persons page.......forever. Update : Greg Sargent is reporting that the Secret Service told Facebook to take down that poll. Betting this won't be in there movie .

Any............thing. It's official: Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network," a film based on the creation of the social networking site. But he's not the only rumored name now confirmed to be in the film. Variety reports that Justin Timberlake will also star in the flick alongside Eisenberg. Timberlake will play Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who became Facebook's founding president. Andrew Garfield has been cast as Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who had a falling out with Zuckerberg as the site became a financial success. The crew, along with director David Fincher, will begin filming next month in Boston before moving production to Los Angeles. Biz Stone might as well get ready to make his Twitter film soon. And while we're at it, let's just give Mashable their movie as well, since they report on all of these things from social media all the time.

It really hurts my eyes, it is so damn ugly, and it sucks.

Pathetic once again from Zuckerberg and crew One of Twitter’s strongest features is the @reply, where you can direct a message to someone else on Twitter by typing @ and then their username. Facebook, which is trying to emulate some of Twitter’s best features, doesn’t have anything similar in the News Feed. In short, it’s not easy to have a public conversation. Very soon, that will no longer be the case. Facebook just introduced the ability to tag your friends in status updates. What makes this really interesting though is how you tag people: Using the @ symbol. Facebook has just turned on their own version of Twitter’s @Mentions feature that will be rolled out over the next few weeks. And oh boy...it now works The @ symbol now works just like Twitter, and not just for users, but for groups and fan pages as well. Facebook has just stepped deep into Twitter’s territory. How long until you can see your @reply history? We’re betting not very long at all. They might as well call themselv...

Facebook has made a lot of noise in the last few days, with the acquisition of FriendFeed and their assault on Twitter because of that acquisition to create a real time search. And now, Facebook today will introduce Facebook Lite. Oh boy. Facebook’s clearly up to something big. Facebook acquired Friendfeed. Facebook rolled out realtime search. And now, it looks like “Facebook Lite” is coming, because thousands of Facebook users have been chosen to test out Facebook Lite, But it has some bugs And just as quickly, the message disappeared. What it is exactly…we’re not quite sure. Here’s the full text you see on the homepage if you were selected: “You have been selected as a beta tester for Facebook Lite! We are building a faster, simpler version of Facebook that we call Facebook Lite. It’s not finished yet and we have plenty of kinks to work out, but we would love to get your feedback on what we have built so far. Check out Facebook Lite now at http://lite.facebook.com.” The link doesn’...

Zuckerberg and his cronies are obsessed indeed with the birds. Facebook’s on a roll today. Earlier today, Facebook acquired FriendFeed, one of the largest and most-discussed social media acquisitions we’ve seen in a long time. The deal is partly seen as a move by the world’s largest social network to boost their social technology, specifically realtime streams, conversations, social media aggregation, and search. That’s what makes Facebook’s latest move so intriguing. In June, Facebook announced it was buildinga new real-time search to rival Twitter Search. It not only would search status updates, but photos, notes, images, videos, and links. Facebook has also made changes that will allow users to post their status updates publicly in anticipation of the new search. Fast forward to today: Facebook just announced that it is rolling out the new Facebook search. With realtime search and FriendFeed in its pocket, Facebook is gunning directly for Twitter. Wanting to dominant the market be...

27 years ago..... (Photo from Daily Mail) Online social media has its share of bad characteristics. Stalking, grotesque photos that ruin people's reputations, annoying groups, etc. But with all the bad, there is a hell of a lot good with it. This following story exhibits the absolute best of social online media. If you don't have a Kleenex right by your side right now, you may want to change that. Because this really hits the soul : A British woman whose son was abducted almost 30 years ago was reunited with him - thanks to Facebook. Avril Grube hadn't seen her son, Gavin, since his father took him to the Blackpool Zoo in 1982, according to the Times of London. The rest of the story will leave you at least saying "Wow." It's not too long, so you'll finish reading it in a blink. Fascinating. Saddening. Inspiriting. Heart-wrenching . What more can I say? .........And now (Photo from Daily Mail)

Later, we will give you the craziness already uttered by the McCain campaign, and the continued disturbing shill-ery of Tom Brokaw and "Mourning UGGGGGGGGG" Joe Scarborough later. Just a find example of showing conservative Republican discontent is this fellow, who I will keep anonymous for those who don't have Facebook or are friends with me on there, who just can't let go any talking point that he hears from Fox, the SOP's Committee, or the worst campaign ticket in the history of all campaign tickets. It is too hilarious, especially where he tried to defend, defend , Minnesota divisive nutty nut Michele Bachmann's un-American assumptions on MSNBC's Hardball on Friday. You are going to laugh at this : You talking about Ms. Bachman or are you really talking about John Murtha, y our fellow democrat who "LABELED" his own constituents as racist. Again, all Bachman did was point out that Obama has made bad choices with some of the people that he has...