Tag Archives: Facebook

HEIs Get Facebook Fever (again)

Posted on June 14, 2009 by paulwalk

Facebook rolled out its ‘usernames‘ function today. This is a new feature at Facebook which allows a user to claim their little bit of the Facebook namespace, along the lines of: http://www.facebook.com/[preferred_name]/ The process started at 05:00 am UK local … Continue reading →

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Smoke and mirrors, or good intentions?

Posted on February 20, 2009 by paulwalk

Update: Karen’s presentation has now been made available. Yesterday, despite the best intentions of Worst Great Western, I travelled to the British Library in London to hear Karen Calhoun, Vice President WorldCat and Metadata Services at OCLC presenting on Working … Continue reading →

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Facebook wants your attention, not your photos

Posted on February 18, 2009 by paulwalk

There has been something of a furore over a recent change to Facebook‘s terms of service (ToS). The Consumerist reported this as Facebook’s New Terms Of Service: “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”. The change in … Continue reading →

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Friendship or nothing

Posted on July 18, 2008 by paulwalk

I’ve just been invited in FaceBook to join something called a ‘blog network’. The invitation purported to come from a well-known blogger – someone I’m happy to be associated with. I accepted the invitation, which caused the FaceBook to announce … Continue reading →

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Personal profile portability

Posted on May 18, 2008 by paulwalk

I haven’t minted a TLA for ages – I think I might be the the first to come up with PPP for Personal Profile Portability as a convenient handle to wrap around the current flavour of ‘data portability’ being touted … Continue reading →

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Destination, or workflow component?

Posted on April 19, 2008 by paulwalk

In a recent post, Facebook Or Twitter – Or Facebook And Twitter , Brian Kelly says: …in some circle such use of Facebook is being derided with comments such as “It’s a closed garden“, “Its popularity is on the wane” … Continue reading →

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Twittering about Facebook Fatigue

Posted on February 24, 2008 by paulwalk

The headline to Guy Dixon’s post on vnunet.com is “Facebook user numbers fall in the UK”. The sub-title is: “Social networking fatigue sets in at last”. I don’t think the one follows the other. I think that what we are … Continue reading →

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DataPortability – Facebook to play along

Posted on January 9, 2008 by paulwalk

Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The DataPortability Workgroup. So, parts of the blogosphere are quite excited by the news that Facebook, previously criticised for being a closed system, has agreed to join the DataPortability Workgroup. According to Duncan Riley, the … Continue reading →

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