Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
The Gist of the Idea #crm #mail
Playing with Gist today, although it can always be difficult to adapt to a new interface the advantage that Gist has is that it uses keyboard shortcuts which are intuitive over multiple platforms. And naturally that it can show CRM statistics over the interaction between my, my company and my contacts and extracts the data from multiple platforms, including Mail, FaceBook and Twitter.
It’s also possible to grade people by importance and get a level of data from them which I need to get. Gist also has the option to “auto-magically” select the most important content, reducing the amount of information which is presented to me. Although Gist believes that removing all Tweets and FB posts will create a more manageable list of people and companies, rather than changing the level of importance to display.
A future feature I would like to see it the ability to translate or remove contant in languages I don’t understand or location based information.
FaceBook: FarmVille #games
I must say, although I don’t often play games, some of the FaceBook games are fun and some of them are highly addictive, in one I noticed some of my friends playing FarmVille they weren’t applying simple logic to their game play.
FarmVille is a level game, and with each level – gained by earning experience points (XP) – certain new crops are released. One of my friends, at level 24, has the following crops which are released and you can see that RaspBerries are the best to grow if you have enough time to play, these mature in 2 hours for an average profit of 13 gold, although for 10 gold and 1 XP you can best grow BlueBerries. The next are tomatoes or coffee depending on whether you have 8 hours or 16 hours until your next session. People who can only play once a day should grow Peppers.
Naturally this is so for level 24, but for your level you can also find your optimal crop with little difficulty. The table below is ordered as it comes out of the FarmVille Market.
FindMe #geolocation #facebook #crackberry
I discovered findme (links to FaceBook) by way of FireEagle. A different application to update my location to FaceBook.
First you need to register it to FaceBook before you can use it. It registers the cell location, rather than the GPS location, and allows you to tag the Cell with a location tag. It runs in the background. According to FireEagle:
Automatic operation is currently available for BlackBerry …
Click here for FindMe OTA Download.
Technorati Tags: geolocation, facebook, fireeagle, crackberry, blackberry, yahoo!
Barack Obama’s LinkedIn account to be restricted #linkedin
I’m a great fan of LinkedIn, although it still has some issues. The 2008 report on Social Network Downtime from pingdom states:
“LinkedIn’s downtime has been increasing over the year. Each quarter has seen a larger amount of downtime than the one before it. 63% of its downtime took place during the second half of 2008.“
“LinkedIn seems to be on a trend toward increasing amounts of downtime, […] and even clearer in the quarterly breakdown. 63% of its downtime took place during the second half of 2008.“
LinkedIn or Facebook for Security Clearance Checks #risk #linkedin
I went over to visit Peter Went this week, his company WCC Group produces a Fuzzy Logic Database which amongst other things used for matching Biometric Data. He said he was going to be in Milan today giving a talk to start discussion on the following point.
Governments only really know about 5-10% of their population, a few because they have had a security clearance check performed and the rest because they have a criminal record. The remaining 90-95% of their population they have no clue about, they only know whether they paid there taxes. (Percentages may vary slightly.)
A portion of the population does currently has a Social Networking account with a profile showing you who their friends are, so what if we assume guilt or innocence my association. My friend Peter Went, a connection on LinkedIn, is quite highly graded, I don’t think he has NATO Blue Clearance, but it will be pretty high. One of my friends who works for Peter also has pretty good security rating, although maybe not as good as Peter. In this system I would get 7 points for knowing Peter and 5 for knowing my friend, which would give me a current average rating of ( 7 + 5 ) / 2 = 6. I also have a friend who fell on some bad times and spend a little time as a criminal, although he is now reformed his criminal past and is on LinkedIn he brings down my average rating to ( 7 + 5 + 2 ) / 2 = 4 2/3. Calculating all the way through my +4000 LinkedIn contacts you could discover that I am either good enough to even start a clearance procedure or not.
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Added to that you could also weight people more or less based on the type of friendship we have, Peter I know, but have no real contact with besides from the occasional job offer. 🙂 So we can weight Peter’s score against mine giving me only a percentage of the points I received before. ( 7 * 1 ) I used to work with the friend who works for Peter, which you can extract from LinkedIn, so his rating should count higher against me. ( 5 * 2 ) In fact he gave me a recommendation on LinkedIn, which adds even more to my score. ( 5 * 3 ) When we then calculate the scores you see that Peter’s score is less of an influence on my score than my friend. ( ( 7 ) + ( 5 * 3 ) ) / 4 ) = 5.5. Adding my reformed criminal friend will further affect my score.
This can be taken even further, the score of my reformed criminal friend has an effect on my score so it also effects Peter’s, but not as much as it effects my friend who works for Peter. Depending on the depth of your algorithm this could effect Peter’s score for a second time as my friend has a lower score, all because of the past actions of my reformed criminal friend. Any different algorithms will further alter the effect of the weights on those in my network.
There is no question something like this could be done, the question is whether it is morally correct to judge somebody not on their own actions, but on the actions of the friends of their friends? I know we are what we eat, but are we who we hang out with, or even who our friends hang out with?
technorati tags: linkedin, facebook, networking, fuzzy, mathmatics, security, socialmedia, risk
Image Source: LinkedIn
CrackBerry Social Networking and Chat
I’d seen on Ars Technica that Microsoft had released Windows Live Messenger for the CrackBerry. I had already had GTalk, which didn’t work on my Curve, and Yahoo! Messenger, which I could already use to chat with my my MSN contacts.
I found some other CB applications:
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Flickr
- BlackBerry Wallet (Online Payment System?)
- BlackBerry Maps
technorati tags: blackberry, crackberry, application, networking, chat, messenger, gtalk, flickr, aim, facebook, yahoo!
New FaceBook online
I don’t know if you had already noticed, but the new FaceBook layout is online. Go check it out.
technorati tags: facebook, social, networking
New FaceBook disabled already
I just saw Mashable‘s article on the future of FaceBook in the article See Your Future Facebook Profile Now at new.facebook.com. It seems FaceBook had disabled new.facebook.com already.
technorati tags: facebook, new, feature, social, networking, preview
New Face of Facebook
The time of myspace is over for me, I never really used it to it’s full potential because I found it too busy. People have known for ages not to contact me on it too. I’m starting to get the same feeling about Facebook that I had about a year ago about myspace.
Still I do know there is still potential for Facebook to keep me as a customer. In this they have an advantage over myspace.
“Facebook has unleashed a pair of technical innovations that has fundamentally shaped the social media landscape: the first was the personal feed and the second was an open platform for third-party development.”1
It has become a brilliant advertising platform, I discover new interesting people, tools and companies because of Facebook.
I was recently contacted by a recruiter who had seen a trend with the population of business networks. He was was looking for people in the early stages of their career, and he just wasn’t finding them on the traditional websites. I obviously directed him to Facebook and simply told him that LinkedIn is an advert for the person’s skills and experience. People who don’t have this won’t be advertising. Facebook gives people to ability to adapt their profile to orient it more towards a social or business network.
He didn’t realize, he still used Facebook for social contacts and Zombie, Mafia and Dope Wars. And an alternative to keeping contact and reconnecting with friends and family.
technorati tags: facebook, myspace, social, networking, folksonomy, collaboration, business, linkedin, seo
General Musing 