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Daily Digest 1.31.12

From the pubs I read yesterday:

$25K for a Slick Brand Page For Your Business On Twitter

<> Guess I won’t get 1 this week :(

Snickers, Twitter, And The Problem Of Compliance in the UK

<> Didn’t immediately reveal they were sponsored tweets

AdAge says Only 1% of Facebook ‘Fans’ Engage With Brands

<> I’ve said it for years, Believe me now?

#FB IPO greeted by critical scrutiny

<> concerned that growth has slowed . . . well, there are only a certain number of people on the planet.

“thinking outside the box” researched

http://on.wsj.com/xkj3HD <> Interesting short read

Book ‘Aftershock’ Predicts Economic Disaster

<> & we thought ’08 was bad

Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse Lead Wall Street Pay Cuts

- Bloomberg 

<> I must say, I’m not too sympathetic to their loss

Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners

- http://www.propublica.org/article/freddy-mac-mortgage-eisinger-arnold

<> The beat goes on . . . corporate greed, even from FNMA :(

Obama Expands Aid for Delinquent Homeowners

http://bloom.bg/z2KC1S

<> triples incentives to banks cos they won’t do it for good of the people alone.


Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time

http://searchengineland.com/two-weeks-in-google-search-plus-your-world-109527

<> have they read the reviews? Just sayin’.

Do you really want to know who “unfriends” you on #FB?

<> Yo, there’s an APP for that.

How to twitter: #NewNewTwitter

How to TwitterI’ve finally gotten the #newnewtwitter, and I really, really like it.

Except for what they’ve done to direct messages.

NewNewTwitter is slick and sexy and fast.  It has been simplified somewhat, although I do still have to look for some things after having it for a week or two.

But direct messages are a task.

They’re now located in the drop down menu with your profile info:

Direct Messages is in the Drop Down for your Profile

You click on the line, Direct Messages, and get a list of your messages:

Twitter Direct Messages List

And the next step is to choose the message you want to read and respond to:

Twitter Direct Message detail

And here, one would presume that after actioning the message, we’d go back to the list.  Wrong, DMs disappear, and you’re back at your profile, to choose Direct Messages from the drop down again:

Twitter Direct Message on the Drop Down Under Profile

I’ve made it my  purpose in life to tweet @twitter a couple of times a week and ask for a less clumsy interface.  Til then, I’ve come to really dread answering them.

Daily Digest 1.28.12

From the pubs I read today:

Brad Pitt enters Social Media on Google+Brad Pitt Joins Social Media on Google +, Skips Facebook, Twitter

His first foray into social media was a post about his Make It Right venture in New Orleans on Google+.

WARREN BUFFETT asks, What’s a Kardashian?

Tells Time Magazine:

I’ve seen her name, but I wouldn’t be able to tell what she does but put her name in the paper.”

<> We should all be so lucky

Awesome compilation of Barney Frank moments:

A Video produced by Ben Craw.

7 Big Privacy Concerns for #FB’s Open Graph

Mashable lists big privacy problems with Facebook’s Open Graph <> I’ve got issues with all of them.

Twitter’s New Censorship Policy Is Good 4 Activists

Mashable explains that now Twitter can remove a tweet in country but show it to the world.

The Shadow Banking System: A Web of Financial Fraud | Common Dreams:

More on why the mortgage meltdown got so bad . . . can you tell I’m still miffed?

The FBI Might Be Monitoring Your Social Networks

Big Brother is watching everything and Facebook is helping track your movements with Open Graph (above) <>even scarier is the info they go for in search warrants after they’ve stalked your social media . . .

The Complete Guide To Editing Videos With The New YouTube Video Editor

From Social Times

YouTube Rolls Out Updates To Video Editor

Great info from Social Times on the latest and greatest with YouTube’s Video Editor.