Social-Media

A number of high-profile web industry leaders have quit Facebook this week, a turn of events that’s sure to heat up conversation about the social network’s perceived transgressions. Tonight leading video podcaster Leo Laporte announced that he’s closed his Facebook account and made a financial donation in support of Diaspora, a project working to create an alternative social network outside of Facebook’s control. Laporte said he was convinced to make the move by a post written by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, in which Calacanis called Facebook a “monster” and called for users to throw their support behind OpenID and advocates of distributed social networking as open as the internet....

Twitter, the popular short message service has a serious flaw that can impact your feeds and timelines. If you tweet accept @k_avinash, you will automatically be added to that persons follow list. What exactly does this mean? It means that anyone can force themselves into your “follow” list without your approval. No longer do you have control over whom you will follow or who is posting information to your feeds. This works with both native and third party clients....

A famous blog has pointed out a shocking security flaw in Facebook that allows users to see the live chats. There is an option in privacy settings, under personal information and posts, that allows you to preview your profile as it would look to one of your Facebook friends. You are then able to select one of you friends and view it, literally, from their eyes. The feature works so well, that if your friend happens to be live chatting at the time, you will see their conversations in action....

Ok. A bunch of people that are my friends are getting this video posted on their walls, and it looks like porn or something. A lot of my friends have gotten it. Even I allowed it incidentally and it posted on many of my fr’s walls automatically. Its this lower half of a naked girl (nothing shown!) The application seems to be called “Optical Illusion [HQ]’ and if you click on one of the links it will send out the link to people on your friends list stating person’s name, this is without doubt the hottest video ever!...

This Silverlight client app for Facebook is awesome! You can download it from the following location: http://www.silverlight.net/content/samples/apps/facebookclient/sfcquickinstall.aspx

Many people want to stop, delete and remove Farmville, Zoo world, Mafia wars like App Notifications, emails, updates, posts on their Facebook wall and news feed. I have so many friends playing these kind of Apps that my FB news feed is full of unwanted crappy updates! Your friends are addicted Zoo world, Farmville fans and will not stop playing just because you don’t want their FB updates from messaging your wall....

A new feature in Twitter, @anywhere, which will allow Twitter users to connect to their Twitter accounts using third party websites. This service allows users to easily share news while reading them online from different websites like The New York Times, eBay etc.