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  Facebook and Amazon Join for a Social Shopping Experience

  JP 11:49 am on July 29, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Amazon has partnered with Facebook to make online shopping a more social experience. According to the New York Times, once you connect your accounts, you’ll be able to see which “Facebook friends have upcoming birthdays, and receive gift suggestions based on the music, books and movies those friends have said they like on Facebook and on their Amazon wish lists.” But, most importantly, you’ll receive recommendations on what to buy yourself, based on what your friends like.

  This has some negative implications, especially for books. If you are one of those types of Facebook users who accepts every friend request from bare acquaintances, business associates and random unknowns, do you want them to see your wish list, or even have their recommendations pop up on your browser? At the same time, if you’re friends with extremely like-minded people, you may experience that cloistering Daily Me effect, so that you are recommended the ‘Twilight’ series or Glenn Beck’s novel over and over again. (Or maybe you run in Deleuze-and-Guattari reading circles? Same thing.)

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  Facebook and Amazon Join for a Social Shopping Experience originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  'Ex-Blocker' Helps Erase Heartbreak From the Internet

  JP 1:44 am on July 23, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  As the Swedes of yore so sagaciously proclaimed, “Breaking up is never easy, I know, but I have to go.” Those perky blondes were right. The untangling of lives, from reclaiming your teenaged Liz Phair shirt to changing your relationship status on Facebook, is no walk in the park.

  Adding to the torment and heartache comes a whole new digital terrain, wherein once-friendly Twitter feeds and Facebook friends suddenly pack a whole new emotional punch. Endlessly googling and fretting doesn’t heal old wounds. So, in order to get all ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ for the heartbroken, the Web magicians at firm Jess3 have decided to literally erase the virtual past by creating the personalized, grudge-friendly ‘Ex-Blocker,’ a user-friendly add-on designed for the major browsers.

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  ‘Ex-Blocker’ Helps Erase Heartbreak From the Internet originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Facebook Plea Helps Man Finds Kidney Donor in Middle School Pal

  JP 11:46 am on June 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  It’s hard enough to find a decent roommate on Facebook, so finding someone to save your life is a near impossibility. So it was a daunting task Californian Eli Powell faced when he turned to the social networking site three years ago after he learned he had Berger’s disease, which would eventually destroy his kidneys.

  According to CBS 13 News, the Citrus Heights native actually successfully found a matching kidney donor by asking his Facebook friends for help (check out the video here). Powell, a father of two boys, wrote, “I need some help, I need a kidney transplant” on his Facebook page. We’re not sure how many responses he received, but the eventual match came from an unlikely person — Paul Jones, a middle-school friend who hadn’t spoken with Powell in a decade. “Figured he’s young, has a family, and I’d want someone to do that for me if I was in his position,” Jones told CBS. The transplant is set to happen in August, and aside from a few scars, each man will also take away a wonderful story.

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  Facebook Plea Helps Man Finds Kidney Donor in Middle School Pal originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Ping Hoody Makes Facebook Fashionable

  JP 2:34 pm on April 24, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Jennifer Darmour, a Seattle based designer, has designed the perfect piece of e-apparel for the fashionably conscious Facebook obsessive.

  The Ping hoody, which looks a bit like a Jedi robe, uses intuitive, natural actions to both provide Facebook alerts and allow the wearer to respond accordingly. For instance, the hoody “taps” the wearer on the shoulder to indicate that a comment has been left on the wearer’s online profile. The tapping feedback can be customized, allowing users to assign different tapping methods to different Facebook friends. After receiving a request or alert, the wearer can respond through various actions, such as tying the Ping’s waist bow, putting on the hood and closing the zipper.

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  Ping Hoody Makes Facebook Fashionable originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Facebook's F8 Conference Could Herald Birth of Location and Sharing Features

  JP 1:48 am on April 24, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  The Facebook developer conference F8 kicked off Wednesday, and plenty of changes to the platform will certainly be unveiled. We’ve heard some things about the new features, including Places, widgets and a new version of Facebook Connect, so here’s what we know so far.

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  Facebook Connect is getting tighter integration with a number of Web sites that will offer the ability to “like” articles or pages, and chat with Facebook friends without ever leaving the site in question. These features will be integrated into Facebook via new widgets for “liking” things online, as well as via a toolbar for sharing and chatting that developers will be encouraged to place at the bottom of their sites. The goal here is, of course, to take the Facebook experience beyond the borders of the social network proper with a powerful cross-site tool for sharing and gathering information about users’ interests.

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  Facebook’s F8 Conference Could Herald Birth of Location and Sharing Features originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Facebook's F8 Conference Could Herald Birth of Location and Sharing Features

  JP 1:47 am on April 23, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  The Facebook developer conference F8 kicked off Wednesday, and plenty of changes to the platform will certainly be unveiled. We’ve heard some things about the new features, including Places, widgets and a new version of Facebook Connect, so here’s what we know so far.

  Sharing

  Facebook Connect is getting tighter integration with a number of Web sites that will offer the ability to “like” articles or pages, and chat with Facebook friends without ever leaving the site in question. These features will be integrated into Facebook via new widgets for “liking” things online, as well as via a toolbar for sharing and chatting that developers will be encouraged to place at the bottom of their sites. The goal here is, of course, to take the Facebook experience beyond the borders of the social network proper with a powerful cross-site tool for sharing and gathering information about users’ interests.

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  Facebook’s F8 Conference Could Herald Birth of Location and Sharing Features originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  'Facebook Fairytales' Documents Kidney Donations Between Online Friends

  JP 1:47 am on April 13, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  As it turns out, Facebook is good for something. According to The Wall Street Journal, Cathy Schroeder donated a kidney to a friend of a Facebook friend back in 2008 after she saw the woman’s plea for help on the social networking site. It’s amazing that Schroeder would give an organ to Beth Abramowitz just because she read it on Facebook, especially since the two women had never met. But Emily Liebert, who recently wrote a book about this phenomenon called ‘Facebook Fairytales,’ says sites like this have totally changed how people interact. “Even if you’re not directly connected to the person, you feel connected to them through someone else,” Liebert told the Journal.

  Before you scoff, we’re well aware that people anonymously donate organs. The Journal reports that there were 141 anonymous kidney donations and 1,311 donations to non-relatives just last year. But these Facebook donations are different, and part of a larger impetus between Facebook friends. Before the donor and recipient ever meet in the operating room, they feel like they know each other through photos, status updates and other information posted on an online profile.

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  ‘Facebook Fairytales’ Documents Kidney Donations Between Online Friends originally appeared on Switched on Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Woman Goes Three Months Without Social Media, Lives to Tell the Story

  JP 1:49 am on April 9, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Forget gym memberships or weight loss plans. For her 2010 New Year’s Resolution, fiction writer Edan Lepucki decided to do something truly remarkable, and quit both Facebook and Twitter, cold turkey, for three months. As she describes in TheMillions, Lepucki felt like her life needed a serious break from social networking, which, according to her, had become something of an insidious obsession. After notifying her friends, family and fake Facebook friends of her impending sabbatical, Lepucki had someone change her passwords, and didn’t look back. Although she admits to not being “Internet savvy,” Lepucki claims that the minute she shut the door on her Twitter and Facebook accounts, “the whole Internet seemed to collapse in a second, like the ocean knocking down an elaborate sand castle.”

  As she progressed, Lepucki found herself searching for new forms of entertainment. An at-home worker, she was initially frightened by the silence of her “Internet family.” Even in asbentia, Twitter and Facebook still managed to burrow their way into her psyche, as she soon found herself compiling her own running Twitter feed in her mind. While Lepucki doesn’t go so far as to claim that Facebook profiles devalue the concept of individualism, she has discovered an indirect tradeoff. She writes, “The time I spend on these sites means I have less time to write fiction and converse with people in person, two things that make me feel most alive in the world.”

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  Woman Goes Three Months Without Social Media, Lives to Tell the Story originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Free Gift Card Scams Hit Facebook

  JP 1:49 am on April 9, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Last week, your devoted Switched writer was, himself, hit with one of these new, fraudulent Facebook gift card invites — in the form of a promised $500 certificate to Whole Foods (sent from a trusted friend, no less). Amateur gastronome that he is, his common sense was momentarily besieged by the promise of no-strings organic produce. Thankfully, though, after noticing that the invite demanded to be forwarded to all his Facebook friends (before redirecting to a survey page), your writer’s wits returned. A quick search netted some tweets by the WF honchos, confirming that this was indeed a scam. Close tab.

  The thing that your writer forgot, and something we should all know, is that no company will hand out gifts that large for simply becoming a Facebook fan. And yet these scams are spawning like Tribbles, promising $1,000 gift cards for companies like Best Buy and Ikea. But it’s tricky for Facebook to separate the wheat from the chaff, because some businesses do offer giveaways through their Facebook accounts. Simon Axten, a spokesman for Facebook, told SFGate that the company is working toward a solution to the problem, saying that it’s “building an automated system to detect this type of suspicious content and behavior more quickly before it’s even reported.”

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  Free Gift Card Scams Hit Facebook originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Free Gift Card Scams Hit Facebook

  JP 1:48 am on April 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Last week, your devoted Switched writer was, himself, hit with one of these new, fraudulent Facebook gift card invites — in the form of a promised $500 certificate to Whole Foods (sent from a trusted friend, no less). Amateur gastronome that he is, his common sense was momentarily besieged by the promise of no-strings organic produce. Thankfully, though, after noticing that the invite demanded to be forwarded to all his Facebook friends (before redirecting to a survey page), your writer’s wits returned. A quick search netted some tweets by the WF honchos, confirming that this was indeed a scam. Close tab.

  The thing that your writer forgot, and something we should all know, is that no company will hand out gifts that large for simply becoming a Facebook fan. And yet these scams are spawning like Tribbles, promising $1,000 gift cards for companies like Best Buy and Ikea. But it’s tricky for Facebook to separate the wheat from the chaff, because some businesses do offer giveaways through their Facebook accounts. Simon Axten, a spokesman for Facebook, told SFGate that the company is working toward a solution to the problem, saying that it’s “building an automated system to detect this type of suspicious content and behavior more quickly before it’s even reported.”

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  Free Gift Card Scams Hit Facebook originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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