Category Archives: Social Networks

Lots of complaints about TweetDeck’s livestream – How to fix it if you don’t like it

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TweetDeck today launched a new version that brings live feeds to its application. The problem is that it is overwhelming people.

Here’s how to fix it and return to the previous way.

  • To pause the stream in a column, just scroll down the column. The stream will pause, but updates queued until you return to the top.
  • To disable the real-time stream go to settings, Twitter and uncheck the option. It’ll return to the old polling method.

I like TweetDeck and look forward to trying this new version over a period of time. What do you think of the new version? Let us know by leaving a comment.

Facebook Employee Accessing Data

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Why You Shouldn’t Trust Facebook with Your Data: An Employee’s Revelations – Facebook

Valleywag had a commentary on a story about Facebook employees accessing user profiles when they shouldn’t. Apparently there is a master password that they can use to get into your account.

Also, it appears the database isn’t protected. An employee can just query the database and get any information they want.

This is scary. I am doubting using Facebook anymore.

I am wondering if this will begin to be the downfall of Facebook?

Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Votes a Sham!

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I just want to say the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year is a sham! ONE BIG SHAM!

They had voting throughout the fall for coach of the year. This was to be a vote of the fans. But it didn’t turn out that way.

University of Idaho football coach Robb Akey was in fourth place when the initial vote ended. When the finalists were announced, he was no where to be found. NO WHERE!

Coach Akey, in his third year at Idaho, took a team that won three games the previous year to a 7 win season and Idaho’s first bowl appearance since 1998. They will be playing Bowling Green in the Humanitarian Bowl on December 30.

What happened? Who knows.

Liberty Mutual totally ignored the vote of the fans who came to their site, promoted this vote on Twitter and Facebook, and turned their backs on them. This is a total failure of the process.

Liberty Mutual, if you want to dive into the social media world, dive in.  If you want a true social media experience, use the fans votes. Don’t come up with your own plan and use the people like that.

WordPress 2.9 Available And Intriguing

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I just upgraded to WordPress 2.9. I haven’t noticed much of a difference yet, but there are some cool updates that I may be able to use.

Check out this video:

I think the two most interesting to me are the photo editor and just pasting a video link in the compose area. It is just getting too easy.

I am looking forward to playing with WordPress 2.9.

You screwed the pooch on this one Facebook

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Facebook, I just want to say that you really screwed the pooch on your new update to the privacy settings.

People who had their profiles locked down with your old privacy settings now found them opened to the world and people who didn’t want to be found on Facebook, were starting to get found.

Now there is something to being said that if you don’t want to be found, then don’t get on Facebook. But people who went on Facebook and set the privacy settings to not be found in the people search are now being found.

One of them is my mother.

She got on Facebook to keep up with her kids, grandkids, and a friends she found. She didn’t want anyone else to friend her. But with your new settings, she is beginning to get found and is now getting off Facebook.

Because of your greed and wanting to opening up our privacy to the world, you are now losing customers. And now my mother will not be able to keep up with us on Facebook.

You have done this a few other times where you have messed with our privacy and you got hurt. I am wondering how many more times it will take for you to get the mess up to get the message.

Pownce releases mobile version, maybe it will stem the downward turn

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For those of you out there who have a mobile device and use Pownce has a mobile version. Just go to m.pownce.com.

It is still in Beta, so report any bugs. It still needs some work, but at least the folks at Pownce are developing one.

Thanks to my friend Chris who ran a trend on Google comparing Twitter vs Pownce. It is pretty interesting.

I had asked a question on Twitter asking about if anyone used Pownce anymore. What I was finding that in following the same people on Pownce and Twitter, they made more posts on Twitter than on Pownce.

According to Google Trends, Twitter is steady or rising, while Pownce is slowly declining.

I would be interested in your take on things. Let me know through a comment here.