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Keep Facebook from ‘liking’ too much of your private life

UPDATE: More details are emerging from the f8 conference about the profound privacy and marketing changes being introduced by Facebook.
I have added a link set of related articles at the bottom of this post to illuminate what is happening with these changes. That list of articles will update as I do more reporting.

What is not to ‘like’ about the new Facebook?
This is the ‘Like button” that you will now see on all of your fave Web sites.

Go ahead and click on it and then go to Facebook and check your profile.
Facebook tells developers that the ‘Like’ button will add their Web site to people’s profiles.

This is the new button you will see everywhere on the Web.
What was revealed today was that Facebook wants to be everywhere you go and collect rich data about your preferences. This cute little button unlocks a new Pandora’s box of privacy concerns.

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Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad and iPhone

“Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad.”
That is not a typo.

iMockups will allow designers to create quick wireframes and mockups for your web, iPhone and iPad projects, using an iPad.

This preview video heralds a wave of new productivity and design-focused apps.

If nothing else, we now have a business reason to expense an iPad.

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5 power tips for using Twitter for research

Seesmic is super fast and easily customizable.

Seesmic is super fast and easily customizable.

Five things you need to know aboutâ„¢. . . Twitter

A quick tutorial of my favorite power tips to help you find and mine the good stuff.

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Creating a Facebook presence for a non-profit

Is it time to revisit your Facebook strategy? Should you have Groups vs. Pages. Fans vs. Members?

I have been doing a lot of research and writing reports for European clients to advise them on social media and mobile media strategies and am starting to turn some of that intel into action for my other full-time volunteer gig - running the Visual Editors charity.

Visual Editors is a non-profit foundation founded in 2004 to promote visual journalism literacy and has used an array of social networking tools to organize fundraising, meetups and training events around the world. It has been a sandbox for me and our members to get our hands dirty with emerging technologies and behaviors.
Our members have been, at times, years ahead of many other groups of journalists in adopting and adapting to the digital media landscape. VizEds members have been active for a long time in social media spaces like Facebook and Twitter.

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Will Apple ban newspaper iPhone apps for nudity?

CAIRO: Will Apple ban popular newspaper apps from the iPhone App store?

UPDATE: Rob Curley of the Las Vegas Sun tells me that he is worried about his news app being banned. (full quote further down)

Update No. 2. The Guardian reports that “The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple over the computer firm’s request that German publisher Axel Springer censor the naked girls on one of its iPhone apps.”

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Cairo: 3 weeks of multimedia workshops for journalists

Robb Montgomery poses with Egypt Media Development Program colleagues during the filming of a documentary they produced together in 2009.

CAIRO - Feb. 14 to March 4, 2010:

I am heading back to Egypt to work for three weeks with the Egypt Media Development Program and the schedule they have prepared is jam-packed with training and consulting visits with journalists from Egypt’s top media houses.

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