Pinviewer – View your Facebook content like a Pinterest board

URL: https://apps.facebook.com/pinviewer/

Love Pinterest but are slightly peeved that you can’t pin anything from with Facebook? Say hello to a new Facebook application that allows you to ignore the timeline, and browse yours and your friends updates in a more visual interface.

With the web becoming an ever more visual platform, Pinviews design purposely rides the coat tails of Pinterest which has made the web more scannable, and visually appealing, and combines it with the social data contained within Facebook.  Once you’ve authorised access to your profile, there are options for viewing your own wall, the wall of your friends – and the ability to pull in both image and video content from each – which makes it much easier to see what to like and share.
Very cool.

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Internet Addiction? Or Social Evolution?

Written by Michelle Marie

I’m sure the thought has crossed your mind before, “I’m addicted to the Internet”. Stop! You are no more addicted to the Internet than a crackhead is addicted to a crack pipe! The Internet is the tool not the drug. It’s the information highway to our interests, our desires, our hopes, and our dreams. The Internet gives us pleasure; it feeds our imagination, strengthens our knowledge, and connects us to people we share commonalities with all across the world with whom we would not otherwise be able to connect with.

The evolution of socialization.

Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology for the Arts and Sciences at Washington University states that animals and humans benefit from being social and believes supporting evidence exists to back up his claim. According to Dr. Sussman there are two areas of the primate and human brain that are stimulated when we cooperate (socialize) with each other. Dr. Sussman believes we’ve evolved to gain pleasure form socialization through the release of hormones such as serotonin and oxytocin which play a large role in social recognition and trust.

We must stop and ask ourselves an important question; are we becoming less social or are we becoming more social? I think most of us can agree that we’re defiantly becoming more connected through emerging technologies resulting in new ways we humans interact with each other. Can the expansion of connections between people occur with a decrease in socialization?

Many people will agree that the growth of technology in the last couple decades has lead us to be a lot less social. We’re texting instead of talking, joining Hangouts instead meeting in person, and socializing on virtual networks instead of our local coffee shop with our real world friends and neighbors. But socializing doesn’t have to occur in face to face, person to person, and voice to voice situations for us to continue being social, it’s just become a lot more convenient since the rise of all the wonderful technology gadgets and social media sites that bring us together.

Humans are not retreating away from our nature of being social creatures we’re moving forward evolving into something much bigger and more complex, a place where we feel more socially connected right from the comfort of our own homes, offices, libraries, and smartphones that can be taken just about anywhere and still receive Internet access. The world itself evolved through the process of making things more convenient and efficient. It’s nature finding its way.

Yesterday I rode in the elevator with someone who was fixated on his cell phone just as I was. He looked up at me and said “what would we do without our cell phones?” I thought for a second, “I have no idea”. But later on it dawned on me that we could question the same for just about everything that has become a depending part in our lives. What would we do with out cars, air conditioning, refrigeration, or indoor plumbing if it they were taken away? The only difference now is that we’re from a generation where we didn’t always have cell phones or the Internet. We can look back in a time where things were done in a less convenient and efficient way, but back then it was the most efficient and convenient way of doing things. To take away our cell phones and Internet access would be just the same as taking away the light bulb two decades after Edison invented it.

Change isn’t always viewed as a good thing. Change is often scary when no one knows the direction their heading and every step taken is taken blindly. But to condemn a direction that’s happening naturally would be no different than condemning the evolution of mankind.

Are we addicted to the Internet? Or are we something else – genetically hardwired with pleasure releasing hormones pushing us to invent ways in which we can socially connect in the most convenient and efficient ways possible? It seems to me we’re in the midst of a social paradigm shift rather than an Internet addiction epidemic.

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How to get the new social version of YouTube.

Remember a while back I announced that Google are experimenting with a new social layout for YouTube? Turns out you can get the new updated design before everyone else with some technical wizardry.

If you want a sneak peak of the new YouTube layout before it’s rolled out to everyone else -you just have to follow this 4 simple steps:

1. Go to http://www.youtube.com  
2. Press Ctrl + Shift and J in Chrome to open the Developer Tools Press Ctrl+Shift+K in Firefox 
3. Click on the "Console" Tab and enter document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU"; 
4. Reload the website (Ctrl + f5 for a hard refresh) and enjoy the new layout.

via Moritz Tolxdorff on Google+

The Ultimate social media recipes to easily cross post your updates.

22 social media recipes to easily cross post your updates.

With a number of social media platforms available to consumers, we are always searching for ways to minimise our workload, and in order to do so, it often makes sense to want to connect together accounts so a distributed message can be sent out from one place. The following post provides just a few of the recipes available for the interconnection of accounts and with a bit of creative thinking you should be able to chain many of these together to suit your needs and reach a bigger audience.

Connect Google+ to Twitter 
URL: http://manageflitter.com/plus

ManageFlitter offers a number of tools for the better management of your Twitter account. One of which is the functionality to link Google+ to your Twitter account. Postings on Google+ automatically can be sent through to Facebook.

Connect Facebook to Twitter
URL: http://www.facebook.com/twitter/

Facebook offer this functionality out of the box for their users. With this app, if you manage a Facebook Page, you will be able to decide whether to share updates with your Twitter followers, and you also will be able to control what type of updates to share: status updates, links, photos, notes, events or all of them.

Connect Tumblr to Twitter
URL: https://www.tumblr.com/login?redirect_to=%2Fsettings%3Ftwitter

Tumblr provide functionality out of the box for microblogging your recent Tumblr post direct to Twitter, and also allow you to keep up to date with your Twitter friends’ posts within the Tumblr dashboard.

Connect WordPress to Twitter
URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-to-twitter/

With the WP-to-Twitter plugin, you can ensure that once you’ve published a new post on your WordPress blog, it will automatically get republished direct to Twitter.

Connect Google+ to Facebook 
URL: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105657782253842840543/posts/GPFUPEobgDL

Alexander Müller came up with this Facebook application that can receive messages from Google+ in three easy steps.
Browse to http://c0ff33.de/twitterAuthenticate your Twitter account with the app.Add the supplied e-mail address to a new circle. Alternatively you can use the share by email feature as detailed here by Joe Hall to create a circle that you can share to Facebook.

 Connect Twitter to Facebook 
URL: http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/

The official Twitter application within Facebook allows you to connect your Facebook account to your Twitter account,. Tweets will appear directly on your profile page and your Twitter username will be displayed for your Facebook friends to see.

Connect Tumblr to Facebook 
URL: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=48119224995

The above link takes you direct to the application within Facebook, however to enable posting, you have to login into your Tumblr account, click “Settings” and check the Facebook checkbox to enable posting Tumblr information direct to your news feed. Once you’ve authorised your account, you can also select a Facebook fan page to begin posting to.

Connect WordPress to Facebook 
URL:  http://wordbooker.tty.org.uk

Good WordPress to Facebook integration is hard to come by. I provided a solution a while back for a complete application which could pull post through to a Fan page along with associated styling. However, often I’m asked how to integrate WordPress blog posts as wall posts within that application. The wordbooker plugin for WordPress does exactly that, and can also post to Facebook Fan Page walls and Group Walls if you are an administrator for that fan page or Group.

 Connect Twitter to WordPress 
URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-news-feed/

If you want to go the reverse direction, there are ways to bring tweets directly into WordPress posts. The above listed plugin does the heavy lifting for you, using a combination of the Twitter Search API and RSS to import unique tweets for specified users into WordPress. Alternatively the Tweet Import plugin allows you to only import hashtagged posts.

 Connect Facebook to WordPress 
URL: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=19040221057&format=rss20

The above URL demonstrates that you can extract data from public pages out of Facebook. Simply click on the “Receive updates  via RSS” on any fan page, and you can receive an RSS feed out. It is then a trivial matter to setup a RSS Import plugin to continue to feed your WordPress blog with the content contained within Facebook.

 Connect Google+ to WordPress 
URL: http://ifttt.com/

If this then that – available at the above URL is a remarkably simple web application for creating macros. In the context of cross posting from one service to another, it is an absolute godsend.  First signup for an account, Activate the WordPress Channel then turn on the Google+ to WordPress task recipe. Optionally you can choose a keyword that fires off this task from within Google+, so you can filter the operation.

 Connect Tumblr to WordPress 
URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-poster/

Want to send tumblr posts into WordPress? Firstly, there is a way to generate an RSS feed out of any Tumblr blog. Simply put ‘/rss’ on the end of the URL. For example Tumblr Staff’s blog rss is here: http://staff.tumblr.com/rss - once you’ve got that done. Setup a RSS Import plugin to continue to integrate your WordPress blog with the content in your tumblr account.

Connect Google+ to Tumblr 
URL: http://ifttt.com/recipes/6147

Ifttt does the heavy lifting for us again with this recipe for posting directly from Google+ through to Tumblr. Simply replace replace the id number in the feed url with your Google+ id number and you’ll be autoposting direct to tumblr in no time.

Connect WordPress to Tumblr 
URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblrize/

Setting up WordPress to autopost through to Tumblr is a breeze with this plugin. It integrates directly with Tumblr’s API, and also includes support for Posterous. Unlike some other plugins out there, Tumblrize maintains links between the two platforms synchronising changes.

Connect Twitter to Tumblr 
URL: http://tweettoemail.com

The easiest way to send your Twitter updates to Tumblr, is via email. First of go to “Settings” in Tumblr, and find the email address specified. It will be unique per user. Then visit the Tweet to Email service, and set it up, specifying the Tumblr unique email address. Now when you tweet to email, it will automatically be sent to Tumblr.

 Connect Facebook to Tumblr
URL: http://ifttt.com/recipes/4132

 - New Status update > New text post URL: http://ifttt.com/recipes/3623

 - Facebook Link > New link post in Tumblr URL: http://ifttt.com/recipes/1821

 - Facebook Image > New image post in Tumblr

Getting information out of Facebook isn’t much fun, ifftt has again rode into town and delivered the goods. As you can see from the recipes above, there are a variety of scenarios that you can avail of to get exactly what you want.

Connect [service] to Google+ 
URL: http://ifttt.com/recipes/2136

With Google+ not yet supporting a full API, you’ll find it hard to push information into your stream. However, whilst we wait for that support, a number of enterprising people have come up with a few loopholes. For example, it is possible to find out an email address to post into the service – and once you have that you can pretty much work out a way to send from other places.  Note. This only seems to work for US / India users who can use Google SMS.

Connect [service] by Voice call.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just connect to the web with a simple telephone call? Well you can, thanks to the telephone connector available inside Tumblr. Once you’ve set that up, take a look at the Tumblr to [service] recipes to see what the potential is. There is also a telephone service inside ifttt.com and http://www.twilio.com offers a voice based API in both the US and Europe for those of you who can sling code at the problem.

 Connect YouTube to Twitter 
URL: http://www.techfeb.com/2011/03/auto-tweet-when-you-upload-video-on-youtube/

YouTube is a force to be reckoned with in the marketing world. If you aren’t doing video marketing in some capacity or another, you are missing a wealth of opportunity. For those of you that are engaging visitors on the YouTube platform, this recipe offers a way to autotweet when you  upload video.

Connect YouTube to Facebook 
URL: http://www.techfeb.com/2011/03/auto-tweet-when-you-upload-video-on-youtube/

In the same vein, it’s easy to also connect YouTube to Facebook as YouTube offer integration out of the box. Simply connect up your accounts in the same way as detailed above, and you’ll be autoposting to your Facebook stream in no-time.

Connect YouTube to Tumblr 
URL: http://ifttt.com/recipes/125

If you blog on the Tumblr platform, this recipe available at ifttt.com will allow you to send all of your YouTube Favourites directly to Tumblr as video posts. It’s as simple as clicking the heart icon on a video, and away it goes.

 Connect YouTube to WordPress 
URL: http://www.ternstyle.us/products/plugins/wordpress/wordpress-automatic-youtube-video-posts

How great would it be to automatically create a new video post in WordPress when you perform an action inside YouTube? This WordPress plugin synchronises the two, automating the process of adding a video to WordPress when it is added to a particular YouTube account.

Social Aggregation Services
 
As well as roll your own approaches such as the solutions posted above, a number of social media aggregators exist to populate the services that you want with information.

http://ping.fm/

– Twitter, Facebook (including Pages), WordPress, Tumblr, LinkedIn, TypePad and others.


http://hootsuite.com/

– Twitter, Facebook (including Pages), MySpace,  Mixi, LinkedIn, WordPress and Foursquare


http://feedblitz.com/

– RSS Feed to email


http://www.feedmyinbox.com/

– RSS Feed to email


http://hellotxt.com/

– Offers a variety of social networks, and is available on mobile platforms.


http://www.tubemogul.com/solutions/oneload/overview

– If you have video content and want to syndicate it various channels. TubeMoguls Oneload service is a free solution to achieve that.  Veoh, iTunes, Flickr, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Vimeo amongst others

. Have you any difficulty getting content from one platform to another? Hit me up in the comments and I’ll see if I can’t come up with a solution.

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Posted: 19 Nov 2011 03:48 AM PST

Facebook Profiles Can Be Used To Detect Narcissism

 


A new University of Georgia study suggests that online social networking sites such as Facebook might be useful tools for detecting whether someone is a narcissisist

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We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that can be identified by others, said lead author Laura Buffardi, a doctoral student in psychology who co-authored the study with associate professor W. Keith Campbell.

The researchers, whose results appear in the October issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, gave personality questionnaires to nearly 130 Facebook users, analyzed the content of the pages and had untrained strangers view the pages and rate their impression of the owner's narcissism

The researchers found that the number of Facebook friends and wallposts that individuals have on their profile pages correlates with narcissism Buffardi said this is consistent with how narcissists behave in the real-world, with numerous yet shallow relationships. Narcissism are also more likely to choose glamorous, self-promoting pictures for their main profile photos, she said, while others are more likely to use snapshots.

Untrained observers were able to detect narcissism, too. The researchers found that the observers used three characteristics quantity of social interaction, attractiveness of the individual and
 degree of self promotion in the main photo to form an impression of the individual's personality. People aren't perfect in their assessments, Buffardi said, but our results show they're somewhat accurate in their judgments.

Narcissism is a trait of particular interest, Campbell said, because it hampers the ability form healthy, long-term relationships. Narcissism might initially be seen as charming, but they end up using people for their own advantage, Campbell said. They hurt the people around them and they hurt themselves in the long run.

The tremendous growth of social networking sites Facebook now has 100 million users, for example has led psychologists to explore how personality traits are expressed online. Buffardi and Campbell chose Facebook because it's the most popular networking site among college students and because it has a fixed format that makes it easier for researchers to compare user pages.

Some researchers in the past have found that personal Web pages are more popular among narcissists, but Campbell said there's no evidence that Facebook users are more narcissistic than others.

Nearly all of our students use Facebook, and it seems to be a normal part of people's social interactions, Campbell said. It just turns out that narcissists are using Facebook the same way they use their other relationships for self promotion with an emphasis on quantity of over quality.

Still, he points out that because narcssist tend to have more contacts on Facebook, any given Facebook user is likely to have an online friend population with a higher proportion of narcissist than in the real world. Right now it's too early to predict if or how the norms of online self-promotion will change, Campbell said, since the study of social networking sites is still in its infancy.

We've undergone a social change in the last four or five years and now almost every student manages their relationships through Facebook something that few older people do, Campbell said. It's a completely new social world that we're just beginning to understand.
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Adapted from materials provided by University of Geo