Posts tagged Enables
How Facebook Enables The Google Social “Scraping” It’s Upset About
May 12th
I wrote a very long examination of the issues that Facebook employed a PR firm to publicize, about how Facebook feels Google may be violating privacy with its Google Social Search product. Here’s a shorter look, especially from the angle of how Facebook itself has enabled Google to do what…
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Twitter Enables Fully-Functional, Embedded Tweets
Mar 30th
Until now, there has been no quick and simple way to embed a functional Tweet in a blog post. That is, most of us bloggers simply took a quick screenshot, uploaded the image and used that, meaning that users were left looking at the picture of functionality without any of the benefits – they couldn’t follow, retweet, reply or favorite a thing.
Today, Twitter has released a new set of developer tools that will make it easier for bloggers and others alike to embed fully-functional Tweets on the Web, with WordPress leading the pack.
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According to the developer description, the new feature – called Web Intents – will “make it possible for users to interact with Twitter content in the context of your site, without leaving the page or having to authorize a new app just for the interaction.”
Twitter had previously offered a way to embed Tweets with a feature called Blackbird Pie, but the resulting embed was lifeless. Users couldn’t interact with it in any way. The new feature allows users to interact with the embedded Tweet as if they were on Twitter’s website itself, even offering a mini-profile feature, similar to the Hovercard.
Already, WordPress has offered an updated tool, writing that “Twitter Blackbird Pie Just Got Even Sweeter.” For WordPress users, the change will be immediate and automatic – all Tweets on WordPress.com blogs will display in the new format.
For the rest of us, however, there is a little simple hacking required, though the how-to is fully detailed. We’d be surprised if a tool for doing this quickly and easily weren’t out and free on the Web by the end of the day.
Now, this isn’t to say that you shouldn’t go getting that screenshot while you’re at it. The new feature works by referring to the Tweet by ID, which means that if the original poster deletes that Tweet, your embed will have nothing to show.
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Twitter Finally Enables Secure Connections by Default
Mar 15th
Two weeks after TV star Ashton Kutcher had his Twitter account hijacked by critics of Twitter’s security policy, while at the prestigious TED conference, Twitter just announced the addition of a new feature to every account: HTTPS by default.
Secure HTTPS connections to social networking sites are important on open public WiFi networks but haven’t been easy for users to set up until now. In its announcement this afternoon, Twitter said it hoped in the future to turn on HTTPS by default (really default default, in every case) not as a user option to select, automatically in all circumstances. This is very good news for its users and for Twitter’s long-term viability.
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As Twitter moves more and more towards mainstream and celebrity users (as opposed to technical power users) – making security and the integrity of identity really simple grows all the more important. If stars on Twitter regularly lost control over their own voice and brand like Kutcher did earlier this month – that would be very bad for Twitter’s strategic interests.
“Use HTTPS by default” is now the last option on the Settings page for each account. It is wise for anyone who logs into Twitter in public to go and check off that box.
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Google Enables Negative Keywords For Product Listing Ads
Mar 11th
AdWords advertisers have long had the ability to use negative keywords to limit the situations when their ads will display, and now product listing ads — rolled out in November — will have this feature, too. Google announced the new targeting capability, saying it’s the first of…
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Amazon Enables E-Book Gifting for Kindle
Nov 19th
Just ahead of the holiday shopping season, Amazon just enabled a new feature in its Kindle store: e-book gift giving. Amazon’s customers will now be able to give Kindle books to anybody with en e-mail address, whether they are existing Kindle users or not. According to Amazon, the Kindle store is “the first major bookstore to offer eBook gifting,” though as we reported yesterday, the Kobo store now also allows its users to purchase e-books as gifts.
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Given that Amazon now makes Kindle apps for all major mobile platforms (iOS, Android and BlackBerry), as well as desktop apps for Mac and PC, the chance that you could give an e-book to somebody who doesn’t have the ability to read it is pretty slim.
What About E-Book Lending?
More so than gift giving, we also hope that Amazon will soon allow users to lend eBooks. Barnes & Noble’s Nook already has this capability and Sony Reader users can often lend e-books from their local libraries. The Kindle remains one of the more closed e-book ecosystems, though earlier this year, Amazon announced that it was definitely working on this feature and the company’s CEO Jeff Bezos told the New York Times that he thought current e-book lending schemes were to restrictive.
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