Over at Mashable they report that Netvibes is increasing its presence on Facebook from October 23.
Netvibes had had a Facebook widget since August 2007, but according to the Mashable report, a new facility will allow users to integrate all their Netvibes activity feeds into Facebook and use the features that allow commenting, interaction and sharing.
Tags: Facebook, mashable, netvibesDevelopers from Facebook and Google sitting on a panel at Supernova 2008 in San Francisco yesterday.
CNET has them saying that its the lawyers who are keeping them from using collaboartive technology for their respective friend-connecting APIs while the developers work on ways of sharing data between social networks.
Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect service last month saying it violated the site’s terms of service - the violation was redistributing user information from Facebook to other developers without the users’ knowledge.
What would Google have to do to not vialate the terms then?
Well, that one’s with the lawyers.
Tags: collaboartive technology, Facebook, google, San Francisco, social networksHearst Magazines Digital Media division has entered into an agreement with instant messaging and social network firm Spleak, Media Week reports.
The deal will see content from titles including CosmoGirl and Teen distributed through the recently launched CelebSpleak application, which is now available on MySpace, Facebook, and AOL and MSN’s instant messaging services.
The app delivers ‘tattles’ - nuggets of celebrity news - and allows users to respond.
“There’s great value in both UGC [user-generated content] and professional, editorial content. Most of the time the two end up in conflict with one another, but Spleak has found the right way to combine the best of both worlds.” Morrie Eisenberg, CEO of Spleak Media Network, told Media Week.
Tags: AOL, Facebook, Hearst Magazines Digital, instant messaging, instant messaging services, Morrie Eisenberg, MSN's, Myspace, Spleak, Spleak Media NetworkBusiness journalist Sarah Lacy’s interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the SXSW conference is being torn to shreds by bloggers, because of Lacy’s anecdotal style and rambling questions.
Lacy’s response: an angry message to Twitter (flagged up by CNET) shown below.
Lacy’s interview is now being touted as teaching material for journalism professor Jeff Jarvis’ classes. On his blog, Jarvis says Lacy’s biggest mistakes were not knowing or listening to her audience and her treatment of Zuckerberg - who apparently had to interrupt her ramble to suggest she asked a question at one point.
A post on Adam Tinworth’s blog details the lessons that should be learnt from this interview, namely: ‘engage, know your occasion, do your research and don’t confuse yourself with the story’.
Well said - these are basic interview skills, but Tinworth’s post highlights how these rules should be applied in a new media environment. He points out that despite working in a social media area, Lacy has ‘no direct means of replying that isn’t mediated by others’.
Lacy’s credentials as a business reporter covering technology for BusinessWeek and author on the subject of Silicon Valley and Web 2.0 should have stood her in good stead for this interview.
But it seems her reputation was not sufficient to endear her to or engage with her audience or the blogosphere - after all the interview wasn’t supposed to be about her…
UPDATE - Lacy gives her reaction to the interview in a video response (from Omar Galagga)
Tags: Adam, Adam Tinworth, business reporter covering technology, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, media environment, Omar Galagga, Sarah Lacy, social media areaTomorrow the Evening Standard will release its list of the 1,000 most influential people in London - complete with a brand new section devoted to media.
Roy Greenslade has had a sneak preview of the media movers and shakers, and writes that plenty of new media names make the list.
Political blogger Iain Dale, Annelies van den Belt, managing director of ITV Broadband and former Telegraph Media Group director of new media, and Simon Waldman, digital director at The Guardian, all make the 50-strong media list.
Nikesh Arora, Google’s European vice president, founder of the Carphone Warehouse Charles Dunstone and Mark Zuckerberg (not strictly a Londoner, but hey…) , founder of Facebook, make it into the top five.
Tags: Evening Standard, Facebook, Google's European, Iain Dale, ITV Broadband, London, Mark Zuckerberg, media movers, media names, Nikesh Arora, Roy Greenslade, Simon Waldman, Telegraph Media Group, The Guardian
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