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.
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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.
Why I may be invisible to the Facebook marketers.
Look at my listed interests.
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.”
BERLIN: Check out this poster designed by the promoters of my workshop this week.
I am producing a one-day “Writing for the Web” course at KircherBurkhardt Akademie on 28 January and a couple of weeks ago they asked me to imagine the title of the talk as a movie name.
Haiti: Forget 3D TV hype for a moment and look what Google has done with 3D pictures here to aid in the rescue efforts in Haiti.
UPDATE: Google is also using their mapmaker tool to coordinate info on a master map of Haiti.
Google Earth and mapmaker used to help relief workers
Google clearly knows the power of the image and ordered post-earthquake imagery from GeoEye to give a highly-detailed 3D image of the disaster scenes. On their Web site, Google says that the data and images will be updated continuously.
U.K.: Tour this ginormous photo of a snow-blanketed Britain produced by NASA (Click to zoom and hold to scroll.)
Displaying really big photos in really small places (Like a blog or a mobile phone screen) is a powerful story tool in today’s data-driven environment.
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
