Posted by Nicole on August 31st, 2010 under Social Networking
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I’m not really heart broken over this change – but I also don’t understand the why behind it. Facebook has decided to remove all third party applications from our profiles. According to Facebook:
Profile Boxes are the third-party applications that are featured in boxes on your profile. You can now add a “bookmark” to the left side of the Facebook home page for these applications.
What will happen to my Boxes in the future?
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the user experience and promote consistency across the site, soon Facebook will no longer support profile boxes from applications. In order to access your favorite applications more easily, you can bookmark them.
To learn more you can visit the help page on this topic. Like I said, this really doesn’t matter much to me, but I know many other people with a lot of these such boxes that will now be going away.
Posted by Nicole on August 30th, 2010 under Link Sharing
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Posted by Nicole on August 30th, 2010 under Online Tools & Tips,
Travel
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I have just been playing with Hipmunk – a new air travel search engine – and I have to say I’m impressed. I don’t know for sure if I’m getting the best prices (and can’t tell you that until I use it for a while) but what I am getting is a new way to visualize flights. As most of you know I travel a lot (an understatement) and sometimes I spend hours trying to book travel efficiently and cost effectively. Hipmunk displays flights the way I think – graphically.
I did a search from my two local airports to LAX (for my trip to New Zealand this fall), they were split between two tabs so I can jump back and forth easily (something other sites do not make easy) to compare times, airlines and prices.
I’ll keep trying Hipmunk before my upcoming trips and if I find something else worth mentioning I’ll be sure to share!
Posted by Nicole on August 29th, 2010 under Link Sharing
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Posted by Nicole on August 29th, 2010 under Books,
Shopping
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Yesterday I was stumbling around the web and came across a site I hadn’t heard of before called 101 Free Tech Books. They have a raffle once a month and give away print tech books (not e-books) to the winners. If you’ve bought a book on programming or computers lately you know that these books can add up in cost pretty quickly. I haven’t won anything yet, so I don’t know how easy it is to snag one of these books, but it seems like a pretty awesome idea and worth giving it a try to get free books!
This second site isn’t so much technology related, but I have recently become a fan of a pretty cool deal site called Groupon and thought that some of you might find it interesting. Basically you sign up to get deals in your area, called Groupons (like coupons for a group) and if enough people promise to buy the Groupon the deal is on. I recently got a Groupon for $110 worth of photobooks for only $25 (a technology-ish type deal).
Finally and most awesome – if you want to learn more about finding deals and saving money you should checkout my friend Rachel and her awesome Mashup Mom site & her newest book Point, Click, and Save.
Posted by Nicole on August 28th, 2010 under Link Sharing
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Posted by Nicole on August 27th, 2010 under Link Sharing
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Posted by Nicole on August 26th, 2010 under Link Sharing
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Posted by Nicole on August 24th, 2010 under Link Sharing
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OpenDocMan
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Posted by Nicole on August 23rd, 2010 under Social Networking
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So, it looks like Facebook has done it again – they have released a new feature and opted us all in by default. The new feature is called Places and acts like Foursquare – except that Foursquare lets me pick who I share with and what I share. If you, like me, want to disable this by default Lifehacker has a great guide for you.
Basically this backs up what I keep saying in my Facebook classes. Make sure you check your privacy settings often – it’s hard to keep up with all the new things Facebook is doing, but it’s easy to keep your privacy settings up to date just by checking them once a month or so.
