Reading Time: < 1 minContinuing their stance of locking up user data, which is completely the opposite of Google with their new “Data liberation” tool, Facebook has blocked the popular “Facebook Friend Exporter” app. The app has been around for nearly nine months, but got a huge influx of new users as people tried to export their Facebook friend […]
Gowalla destroys FourSquare when traveling
Reading Time: 2 minBefore I left for Disney, I considered Gowalla and Foursquare to be about the same. They both let you “check in” at various places (restaurants, stores, etc) and both have a bit of a game aspect to them. Foursquare is based on cities and addresses, while Gowalla is based entirely on GPS. While I’m in […]
Reorganizing my lifestream
Reading Time: 2 minLately I’ve had a hard time keeping up with what services cross-post to each other. If I send a status update to Twitter, does it auto-post to Facebook? If I send a picture to Posterous, does it go to Flickr? What about FriendFeed? I had I set up so many different tools that I was […]
The perfect Twitter client?
Reading Time: 3 minRobert Scoble posted a thought-provoking entry today about his quest for the perfect Facebook/Twitter client. I’ve been on a similar quest, so I was hoping he had a great answer. Sadly, he didn’t. I’ve been a TweetDeck user for a while now. I really like it, but I’m always hunting for something better. I’ve become […]
Facebook 3.0 is now available!
Reading Time: < 1 minWe’ve gone over the details before, and now this great update is available in the app store. In addition, they’ve snuck in a few last-minute updates. The two features that weren’t mentioned last week are landscape mode and home screen organizing. I’m really glad to see the home screen organizing make it in there, as […]
Boxcar 2.0 will be a must-have for social media junkies
Reading Time: < 1 minBoxcar 2.0 is now waiting in Apple’s submission queue, and the author expects it to be live sometime between September 3 and September 7. What does boxcar do? For Twitter, it can send you push notifications of anything you want — @replies, direct message, even for all of your tweets if you want (though that’d […]
More info about Facebook 3.0
Reading Time: < 1 minLots more information about the Facebook 3.0 app is coming out. AppAdvice has posted a variety of features that you’ll find in the new app, such as: The new news feed, similar to the news feed on the main Facebook site. You can “like” items. No push notification, though they’re hoping to release that with […]
Facebook 3.0
Reading Time: < 1 minFacebook 3.0 is coming out soon, well let you know how it is soon!
Use Pages in Facebook, not Groups
Reading Time: 2 minThere’s been some debate recently on whether churches and other organizations should use “groups” or “pages” for their church/ministries on Facebook. The thought is typically that groups are good for short-term activities, while pages are better for long-term usage. I think that holds true, and I think churches need to be using Pages as much […]
How much does your church use Facebook? The answer might surprise you.
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve known for a while that our church had a variety of Facebook “groups”. I had set up a church-wide group, and there were at least a handful of youth-related groups. I figured maybe 8 or 10 total. Wow, was I wrong. I’ve spent the last few days searching, and I’ve found 42 groups so […]