With the latest privacy or information breach from Facebook, like many, you may be thinking about can cancelling your account or perhaps locking things down a bit more. Did you know though that you can request a download of all of your personal information – these are the data that others have apparently managed to access. [Read more…] about Accessing Your Facebook Data – Here’s How to get it
A Facebook Location history Checkup
Something for FB fans who are are unsure how much location data their are sharing… Facebook users can easily access their entire location history. Essentially, this is all the places where you use the facebook “checkin” feature.
Viewing your facebook checkin history from your facebook profile page
Digitalglobe helps facebook connecting the 4.2 billion people that still remain offline
Some interesting todbits from MWC today out of Digitalglobe… At the Mobile World Congress today, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced the Telecom Infra Project, an initiative to develop new technologies and approaches for connecting the 4.2 billion people that still remain offline.
5 Point Facebook Security Checkup – How much personal information are you sharing?
Sharing information is fast and simple (perhaps too easy) and for many, it really is quite tempting to over-share, however, while doing so you may also be giving up loads of personal information without even realizing it. Case in point, Facebook. Facebook is by far, the most popular social network out there where people are giving up their personal information or their friends are giving it up. There’s a number of things that could be happening with your posts or posts about you on Facebook that may be giving up more information than you really are comfortable with.
Unlocking Your Social Media Location History
I’m a big fan of social sharing, however, I’m also a huge fan of having access to my data, in particular, data shared along with location information. Most social sharing services support location tagging, however, they don’t really make it easy for you to access or even download your location history. That doesn’t mean it isn’t possible though! I’ve done a little digging into the popular services and have managed to find a number of hacks and tricks for accessing some of these data. One handy trick is enabled by using the very awesome IFTTT tool.
Cook up an IFTTT recipe to archive your location history from Foursquare! [Read more…] about Unlocking Your Social Media Location History
Facebook Q1 Earnings $3.5 Billion, up 42% from 2014!
Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 and lets just say the numbers are BIG and pretty much everything is up, from revenues, to users, to ad spending and more!
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The Best Time to Post to Social Media During the Holidays
AddThis has shared an interesting post that reveals some of the best times for social sharing over the Holiday Season – Tips for best day and time to post to Twitter, facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest are provided
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Dev tip – How to Register an App with Facebook
So, you’ve been thinking about creating an app to run on facebook, so now what? Well, to begin you can take advantage of this great read from fbombmedia… enjoy!
To make sure your app reaches its full potential, you need to take advantage of the features and promotional opportunities presented by popular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
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Blogging, microblogging, media, social media or… Which for your business?
You may be wondering, which would be better for me or my business.. blogging, social bookmarking, a social media focus, or ?? A darned good question, particularly as all have a purpose, a time, a place, advantages and disadvantages. So, which one is best? There’s no simple answer here, however, keep in mind that any option you select will require time {lots of it} , patience, and a commitment.
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New GISuser Page on facebook
To take advantage of the relatively new facebook “Pages” app, we’ve jumped on things and created a GISuser Page – Now you can stay informed with a feed from the blog, some photos, videos, and other cool Geo things. Feel free to become a fan via your facebook account and also feel free to use the wall to announce a GIS event, job, or ?? enjoy! A little rant on facebook though… Pages are a great way to promote your company and secure a position on facebook, however, the application seems to generate a very long, ugly url that will also incorporate your city and state name… very odd – hey facebook, perhaps an option for creating a custom url?? (also coming soon… our LBSzone page) See the GISuser facebook Page HERE
