Privately held SpinVox, which has developed technology to convert voicemail to text messages or e-mail, on Thursday will announce a new service that allows users of Facebook, Jaiku and Twitter social networks to dictate updates to their profiles by calling a specially assigned number. Read the full New York Times article This could win “Most Useless Invention…
Category: Computers/Internet
Top 5 Things Facebook Needs to Fix
5. Facebook has gone global… Its contact information should too. Originally Facebook was only home to American college students, a group in which everyone uses AIM. Now there are members from all around the world. And just like no one in the US has ever heard of Skype and MSN Messenger, no one in Croatia…
Facebook is Now Open to Everyone
It’s been around 33 minutes since Facebook opened the floodgates to the 6 billion or so people who haven’t been able to register under one or more of the supported networks. Amazingly, I have not received any spam yet. Maybe these privacy settings really work! Now I can invite my favorite bartender to Facebook! It…
Facebook Feeds: Good Idea, But Not Enough Options
Yesterday Facebook added a “Feeds” feature which shows a user’s every move on the friends network to his or her friends. The addition caused an immense negative reaction by users concerned about their privacy. A lot of the activities are a bit creepy, such as seeing when “X writes on Y’s wall”, when “Y breaks…
Austrian Universities are now on Facebook
Weblog Now Synced With Facebook Notes
Facebook added a “Notes” feature today that functions just like a weblog. Other friends networks have done this as well, but they often aren’t used much because it would require the user to switch weblog hosts. Facebook fortunately has an import feature that allows users to continue posting on their usual blog. Entries are then…