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How To Use Facebook's New Timeline Feature Twitter has just launched a weekly email in which it promises to point out interesting tweets and content you might otherwise have missed. Given the spectacular failure of its existing Discover option, which is supposed to perform the same function in real-time, I’m dubious as to how well this will work.
Google has been slowly rolling out new features and closer integration between all of its products and Google+, and yesterday it was Gmail’s turn to get a few updates. Now, when you get G+ notifications in your Gmail inbox, you’ll be able to view, comment and +1 those posts without leaving your inbox, and if you’re viewing a notification post and someone else comments on the post, you’ll see that reply in the message, in real time.
If you like to follow news and events for your city and happen to live in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth or Sydney, you’ll get a kick out of this web app. Like a traditional newspaper you can refine the tweets into a few standard categories such as headlines, entertainment, sports, deals and jobs.
iOS: Personalised cloud manager and social organising tool Jolicloud has released an iPhone app that gives you access to all your social network media files in one place.
Chrome: Twitter is a great source for news, articles and keeping up with friends, but it’s also sometimes a magnet for people obsessed with some annoying celebrity that you have no desire to read about. Purge Twitter Trends is a Chrome extension that strips specific celebrity trending topics from your feed so you can read in peace without being forced to unfollow them.
Given the rise in popularity of social networking, this should come as no surprise: the percentage of email that is spam has dropped slightly, but junk marketing and malware spreading through social networking sites are on the rise.
I am an extremely private person. I don’t broadcast my location, I use privacy tools to keep advertisers from tracking me, and I almost never give any app access to Facebook. Of course, a lot of people don’t have a problem with living publicly. I’ve always wondered what the benefits and downfalls of doing so are, so I decided to give it a three-week test run. Here’s how it went.
Earlier in the week we showed you how to clean up your Facebook app permissions, and it’s worth doing the same for Twitter. Plenty of apps and services may have their hooks into your Twitter account, and if you no longer use them, it’s time to lose them. Here’s how.
Privacy is dead, right? Facebook knows everything about you, Google does too, and the world is still turning. Whether you don’t mind companies or the government knowing all about your private life or still feel completely uneasy at the idea, we often gloss over exactly why your personal data is worth protecting. We chatted with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to get to the heart of the issue, and dispel some common myths around the ways your data is used.
In our cleaning routines, it’s easy to forget one of the most important spots: your Facebook apps and their permissions. Now is as good a time as any to take a peek and make sure all of the apps that have permissions to your Facebook account are apps you actually use, and not just apps that you used once a few years ago and forgot about.
