[More Facebook Funnies - You'd Better Check Your Settings (seriously)]
Time to Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings, Here's How
Now that Facebook is loosening its data-sharing policies with third-party Web sites and applications, it's the perfect time for users to consider tightening up their privacy settings. This week the mega social network announced new personalization features that extend the Facebook experience to third-party Web sites–unless you opt out, that is. Here's a rundown of the new features, and how you can opt out if you choose.
Facebook does not erase user-deleted content
Since then, the site has nearly doubled in size. It’s now has the population of the third biggest country in the world, with tens of thousands of servers holding your data, which as soon as it is uploaded, belongs to them to do as and what they wish with it. [I think we need to look at this. I do a lot of FB, but what is it WORTH? To me? To them? To 3rd party marketing websites?]
[Apple Goes Long]
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Gizmodo iPhone Saga
Every fact we discover about this whole lost iPhone story leads to another, and then there's one that refutes the first fact and then another that proves the first one true but negates the latter two, and so on. The legality of the case is in the murkiest of water, to the point where you can almost choose your own conclusion based on what's known–and not come out any less accurate than someone with the opposite conclusion. Hence, we present the entire saga, as it's currently known, in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. If you're a pictures kind of person, follow the flowchart above, which is a rough visual interpretation of the story here.
Apple Buys Intrinsity
Intrinsity, founded in 1997, developed high-speed, low-power versions of popular chips. It also reportedly designed portions of the processor that California-based Apple used in its recently released iPad device. Intrinsity employed more than 100 workers in early 2008. In February, the company raised $4 million from 11 investors in a new round of funding, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
[A Moment of Fun]
Conan O’Brien To Appear On ‘60 Minutes’
After many months of silence, Conan O’Brien will finally be able to speak on television after Friday, April 30. So what’s he going to do? [He'd better not be funny, or he's gonna get his ass sued.]
[A Strategic Moment]
Strategy's Golden Rule from HBR's Umair Haque, the voice of the smashing Twitter keynote at SXSW.
Most companies are competitively challenged — and the Golden Rule of Strategy is how I triage them. It says: "What your fiercest rival does badly, do incredibly well." [I know consultants are supposed to sound like they have it all figured out, but Umair's "is how I triage them" is so arrogant I can hardly get started. Is it just me?]
[WIIFM vs WIIFY]
the ‘so what?’ factor–what’s in it for me?
What came to mind was the biggest challenge I see on a daily basis–delivering value propositions. I mean most businesses are started to fill an unmet need in the market place with their product or service. The catch is so much attention goes into developing the product or service, over time it’s easy to lose track of keeping what that product or service is solving and the benefit it’s delivering in the forefront–especially in the communications phase. In other words–What’s in it for THEM, the customer?
How to Value of your Content for Sales & Marketing
As part of our process, and client work, plus having the Business Development numbers and scars that validate this process, tells us that customers today buy in a much different manner than ever before. Let’s look at what issues and cause could be in a little more depth, as all I have to do is look at my Inbox after opting into someone’s white paper or content, then getting a call as soon as I hit the submit button. [Yes, seriously what comes into your INBOX that you are asking for? What solves a problem you currently have and WHAT is the magic formula that get's you to take ACTION like sign up, opt-in or BUY?]
[STILL ON THE HUNT]
Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media Job Openings
But we’d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable’s job boards are a place for socially-savvy companies to find people like you. This week and every week, Mashable features its coveted job board listings for a variety of positions in the web, social media space and beyond. Have a look at what’s good and new on our job boards… [Some SEO wiz told Mashable that a GUIDE or a WEEKLY GUIDE would score higher in the rankings than simply a post about job openings. A Search masterpiece, the title of Mashable's post is almost perfect. Look at the fantastic word pairs, "weekly guide", "social media" and "job openings." Well done. Except it's really just a post and not a "guide." IMFHO.]
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Those five (six) words are the most powerful in all of social media. It's not the "buy now" button.
