Posts tagged Status
Google+ Gets Video Status Updates
Jan 18th
Google+ just got a feature that takes a bite out of YouTube. Google+ users can now post video recordings as updates to their circles. In the video sharing menu, there’s now a ‘Record video’ option that turns on the webcam. After recording, the video can be shared as an attachment to a post.
This kind of personal broadcasting is something YouTube is known for, but now informal video updates can be shared straight to Google+ circles. The Google+ stream allows all kinds of in-your-face content, including animated GIFs and Google Music players, and now it adds impromptu video updates to the mix.
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These video status updates bypass YouTube and go straight to the stream. Google+ Hangouts, the live video chat feature, uses YouTube for recording and also allows group watching of YouTube videos. Google began integrating YouTube and Google+ last October, and YouTube’s new homepage now features Google+ prominently. There’s also a floating YouTube tab on the right side of Google+ pages allowing for quick video searches.
Would you post a video update to your circles?
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Google+ Takes Hangouts “Beyond The Status Update” With New Features
Dec 14th
Google just announced a range of updates to Google+ video hangouts, declaring its intention to move social networking “beyond the status update.” Any conversation on Google+ can now “go live,” with a “Hangout” button underneath every post. Clicking ‘Hangout’ starts a video chat with everyone involved in the thread. This feature will work through Google+ Messenger in upcoming versions of the native Android and iPhone apps.
The On Air hangouts that have allowed public figures like the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu to broadcast live to the world are becoming available to more celebrities and G+ users with large followings, and it’s becoming a self-service feature, instead of one managed by Google. It’s also being integrated into YouTube, so a recorded version gets uploaded to the broadcaster’s YouTube account.
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The right sidebar of Google+ will now display up to three live hangouts users can join, and invitations to hangouts will now trigger push notifications on mobile devices. Earlier this month, Google added free phone conferencing to hangouts, extending the reach of the live chat to anyone with a phone. Calls in the U.S. and Canada are free, and international rates are reasonable.
You can see more examples of the new features in action on the Google blog.
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Google-Mozilla Firefox Search Deal Expires, Partnership Status Uncertain
Dec 8th
Mozilla’s search partnership with Google expired at the end of November, but neither company has indicated a renewal. The Firefox search deal with Google historically accounted for more than 80 percent of Mozilla’s revenue.
Google and Mozilla De…
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Now You Can Type 60K+ Characters Into A Facebook Status Update
Dec 1st
The Facebook+Journalists Page announced that now everyone can write posts with 60,000 characters, making status updates feel more like the not-so-often used notes feature, which doesn’t appear at all in the Facebook Timeline-version at all.
The amount of characters one can write into a Facebook status update has been steadily increasing over the years, growing from 160 (how Twitter-like!) to 420, then to 500. In September, it reached 5,000. This new jump seems abrupt; the last big increase was 4,500 characters. This one is 55,000 characters, or 12 times as many characters as before.
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The Facebook status has experienced a good deal of changes. In August 2010, Facebook started auto-suggesting Facebook pages, groups interest and even to other users in status updates. “Memorable Status Updates” began showing up earlier this year. It surfaced seemingly random old status updates in a user’s sidebar. Many users were uninterested in seeing these old statuses, and many reported seeing statuses that had been deleted.
Facebook hopes that the new, super-long status updates will encourage even more sharing, which will move users one step closer to complete lifestreaming. This new status update in conjunction with the imminent Timeline rollout make that even more plausible. Facebook, for one, sure does hope so.
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WhoGlue Changes Facebook Status From “I’m Suing” to “I’ve Been Acquired”
Nov 29th
In September 2009, Baltimore-based software company WhoGlue Inc. filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Facebook. It claimed that Facebook “violated a patent awarded to WhoGlue in 2007 for an information management system to control personal information as human networks and technology increasingly mesh.” The lawsuit was settled, and in early November 2011, Hardebeck sold his tiny two-person company, which consists of him and a developer in Berlin, to Facebook for an undisclosed amount.
Facebook may have acquired WhoGlue, but according to a repot from The Baltimore Sun, Hardebeck bought back “some assets, trademarks and customer relationships from Facebook.” He has since renamed his company WhoGlue LLC.
This year’s Facebook acquisitions are just the beginning of what’s in store for the social media behemoth.
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Last December, Facebook said that it would acquire 15 companies total in 2011, effectively doubling the speed of its acquisition pace. Thus far, Facebook has acquired all small companies, including WhoGlue, Friend.ly, Push Pop Press, Sofa, Daytum, Snaptu, Beluga and Rel8tion.
As Facebook makes its moves toward going public, ReadWriteWeb reporter Marshall Kirkpatrick says that the IPO could “mean more and bigger startup acquisitions, more support for more startups and an infusion of smart money and experience into radically new tech experiments.”
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Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Online – Viral Status Guaranteed – ReelSEO Online Video News
Nov 2nd
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LinkedIn Lets Companies Share Their Own Status Updates
Oct 6th
LinkedIn has launched status updates from companies. Administrators of company pages can post short updates just like individual users can. This provides companies with a way to engage followers and start conversations from within the public LinkedIn stream.
Users of LinkedIn could follow company profiles since 2010. Previously, users following a company would see personnel changes, new job openings and company profile updates. Now companies can also share 500-character messages, links and media with followers as well.
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LinkedIn has made an effort to enhance its social features this year, opening its Groups API to developers and adding Groups to its new native mobile apps. The professional social network also set a good precedent for sharing in its first-ever public earnings call, making the slide deck embeddable for anyone and live-tweeting the call.
LinkedIn is moving toward becoming the human resources hub for companies on the Web, not just a place for two-way networking. In July, LinkedIn enabled employers to let job applicants apply with LinkedIn from a company’s own website. Today’s update adds another way for companies and professionals to interact using LinkedIn.
[8/23/2011 10:11:32 AM] Abraham Hyatt: Check out the slides from LinkedIn’s Q2 2011 earnings call:
LinkedIn’s First Earnings Announcement Deck, Q2 2011
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Twitter & Bing Renew Deal, Tweet Their BFF Status Together
Sep 7th
Microsoft and Twitter are rekindling their relationship and telling the world about it on Twitter. Bing has chosen to renew their deal with Twitter, and the two companies announced the news via flirted messages back and forth in a casual conv…
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The Arab Spring: A Status Report on Morocco and Yemen
Jul 20th
This is the second in a three-part series. The first covered Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain. The final post will cover the effect of these uprisings outside the Arab world.
As it has with other countries in the Arab world, technology continues to play a role in communications between protesters in Morocco, Yemen and Syria, as well as between those protesters and the global public. It has also served as the fulcrum for the offending regimes’ attempts at hanging onto power: posting propaganda, misleading statements attributed to protestors, shutting off access to the Internet and more.
I asked people I know in the countries of the Arab Spring to tell us how they think things currently stand and what role technology continues to play there. Today we take a look at Morocco, Yemen and Syria.
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Morocco
Lbadikho is a blogger and author at Talk Morocco and one of the co-founders of Mamfakinch. In a recent article on Talk Morocco, he “tried to evaluate the role of technology as a catalyst to the (protests).”
“In the eve of the protests, more precisely in February 19th, a large call for canceling the Feb20 protests was spread through official state television and some independent Radios. Many people started believing this fake canceling, as the state media used one ex figures of the Feb20 to give credit to this call.
“Activists started to deny this state-organized rumor using social networks and blogs. At mamfakinch for example, this communiqué discredits the major Press Agency in Morocco with Snapshoots proving that the Agency is aiming by its rumors to spread information that would let people really think the protests are cancelled and not to take to the streets the day after.
“From this point of view, Feb20 was a good gauge for New Medias’ impact in Morocco : the Mamfakinch’s denial was read more than 15000 times [1] few hours after being posted, and similar denial were spread through social media, mainly facebook to let people know that there were no cancelling of the demonstrations as MSM claimed. On sunday, the number of participants was so important that orders were given to state televisions to cover the demonstrations.”
In other words, in Morocco, social media has proven a largely successful bullshit detector.
“I add to the articles,” Lbadikho told ReadWriteWeb, “the difference between Morocco and Tunisia is that in our case, the absence of Tunisian-like censorship made that we don’t have the same number of Internet-savvy activists. For example, you’ll not find a group like Takriz in Morocco, unfortunately.”
Yemen
Walid Al-Saqaf is a Yemeni activist and media researcher based in Sweden. He is the editor of the news aggregation site Yemen Portal.
“Although there has been a rapid growth in the use of the Internet in recent years, excessive power outages, diesel shortage and price hikes have caused a decline in Internet access due to high costs of operating Internet cafes. Yemen is among the poorest countries in the world and most Internet users don’t own their own computers. Yet almost all Yemenis have mobile connectivity though the government limited Internet services and international calls for users of SabaFon, the GSM company mainly owned by Hameed Al-Ahmar, a leading opposition figure calling for the end of Saleh’s regime.
“Yet when we consider the high percentage of illiteracy, lack of adequate infrastructure for telecommunication and electricity in vast areas of the country, we can say that Yemenis were able to overcome many obstacles and leverage technology in their favor. For example, there are dozens of Facebook groups supporting the revolution. Many are aggregated by my search engine Yemen Portal and are utilizing the global social network to propagate their messages and share videos of demonstrations, attacks, and other important and relevant events and activities.”
Unfortunately, I could not get an in-country source on Syria by the time of posting. I hope to feature an update on that country later.
Read the first post in this series, covering Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain. The final post will cover the effect of these uprisings outside the Arab world.
Yemen photos by Sallam, Morocco photo by Magharebia
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Google+/Gmail Integration: Current Status & Giving Feedback
Jul 13th
Google+ is already starting to seep into other Google services. Googler Mark Striebeck indicated that there are several Gmail-Google+ integrations in the works, and he wants your feedback on what else to build.
The State of Gmail-Google+ Integra…
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