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Protecting Your Facebook Page from Malicious Content
Aug 10th
MyPageKeeper Detects Spam and Malware Posted on Your Page and Feeds If you want to protect your personal profile page from dubious urls and malicious content, then you need to get MyPageKeeper. MyPageKeeper is an app that notified you when anything suspicious is posted on your page or in your newsfeeed. It also allows you
Startup Talk: Keepstream tries to reduce social media noise
Mar 30th
Some great startups come out of Startup Weekends and better so if you and your buddies cooked up a startup at Case Western Reserve. What started off as CorkShare – a tool to organize your social media streams across twitter and facebook has now evolved into Keepstream. Keepstream helps you organize it. Keepstream is a social media curation tool that helps you collect tweets, Facebook posts, and website bookmarks, and organize them into shareable, embed-able collection pages. This is useful for bloggers, marketers, or just about anyone who wants to curate the chatter from a conference or event, a news headline, or a hashtag chat. But even simpler than that, you can use it to organize your Twitter favorites and retweets, making it easier to share them with your friends or look them up later.
We have setup the Ideabing keepstream page ourselves and it looks as good as gold. Publicly launched in March 2010, Keepstream is a graduate of the Capital Factory early stage startup incubator program.
Startup Of The Day: Talentag
Oct 14th
Hey, have your co-workers badged you yet? No, really – “BADGED”? Yup, talentag is helping people badge their friends/co-workers based on your reputation. As social media at your workplace moves on, cool is the new black. Talentag is a badge based peer appraisal service where you ask for a peer appraisal and your peer gives a badge to represent your qualities. Ultimately your profile ends up looking like a boy scout’s badge band. It’s time that resumes went social and talentag is certainly making that happen. Resume would be too formal a word to use, lets call it “Social CV” for representing the coolness of talentag.
The service lets you start off with your social CV via Linkedin or Facebook logins. It lets you invite friends to badge you via email (connects to gmail and yahoo). Talentag pulls in contacts from Linkedin and Facebook to let you ask them for feedback. We tried this out at office and it turned out to be an amazing experience especially between peers. However it is necessary for you to have facebook or linkedin accounts to get started. What is also necessary is an acceptable base of people from your office on fb your friends list to get your badgework going. We see talentag powering the next generation of employees’ appraisals given that corporations are trying to look beyond conventional ways to hire and keep the best talent. We like Talentag!
It’s Not Just an App, It’s an Entire Phone!
Sep 21st
Facebook is building a mobile phone to compete with Google’s impending Nexus One and the current iPhone and Android brands. Specifically, Facebook wants to integrate deeply into the contacts list and other core functions of the phone. It can only do that if it controls the operating system.
It’s unknown what this phone will look like, how much it will cost, and what sort of capabilities the phone will have. Or even if Facebook is building a phone, as the social media giant has denied the report from TechCrunch.
“Facebook is not building a phone,” Facebook spokesperson Jaime Schopflin told CNET. “Our view is that almost all experiences would be better if they were social, so integrating deeply into existing platforms and operating systems is a good way to enable this. The bottom line is that whenever we work on a deep integration, people want to call it a ‘Facebook Phone’ because that’s such an attractive soundbite, but building phones is just not what we do.”
But a brand/gadget merger could become a marketing scheme of the future, for Facebook or any other company, similar to Purina’s creation of an online game or the dueling Canon/Nikkon coffee mugs.
Kindness actually Kills, so watch out!
Sep 17th
A plant called “Meet Eater” is, or was, watered when Facebook users become fans and post on its wall, an Australian project that was meant to explore the emotions involved in social media. However, with over 5,000 fans in a two-month timespan, the plant drowned in love. Literally.
“We found that it’s been over-loved, it’s actually died two times from having too much stimulation, which is an interesting outcome for us,” said Creator Bashkim Isai, a Queensland University student in interactive design. Visitors to its Facebook page can watch live footage of Meet Eater, version 3.0. Fans can now boost water rations by becoming a fan, or can give Meet Eater a squirt of water by writing on its wall.
Version 3.0 is a “much more water tolerant” plant species and Isai had adjusted the automatic program to lower the water levels. He also said his research show that meaningful connections could be made online, but also some “needs and responses” could not be met
with the Internet.
“We found that it’s been over-loved, it’s actually died two times from having too much stimulation, which is an interesting outcome for us,” said Creator Bashkim Isai, a Queensland University student in interactive design. Visitors to its Facebook page can watch live footage of Meet Eater, version 3.0. Fans can now boost water rations by becoming a fan, or can give Meet Eater a squirt of water by writing on its wall.
Version 3.0 is a “much more water tolerant” plant species and Isai had adjusted the automatic program to lower the water levels. He also said his research show that meaningful connections could be made online, but also some “needs and responses” could not be met
with the Internet.
French Rap Group Steps Up AR A Notch. TechCrunch focuses on Pokes.
Aug 12th
Saw that post on Tech Crunch on that French rap video featuring facebook? Well, we think the video’s great! What we also think is that all the pokin’ going on in the video – its going to happen soon to mankind. We drew up the blueprint for you to build your own Iron Man 2 augmented reality kit a couple of days ago. But the video is what the future will be like – pokes and likes and what not,all at the move of your hand. Just be a little careful when you are “poking” in a public place though. Still don’t know what we are talking about? Video after the break. As far as Tech Crunch goes, they are interested in the pokes more than the tech I guess 
Yes, You Need A Facebook Fan Page Evaluator
May 24th
Have a Facebook page you use to market stuff? Not sure if your page is up to the mark? How about a Social Page Evaluator? Hell yeah, Vitrue – a social media marketing company has just launched a “social page evaluator” to let you know if your page makes the cut. While giving you the current value
Real Time Photo Sharing Service Radar Shutting Down
May 8th
An amazing service is shutting down this month. Radar – the real time photo sharing service is closing it door on May 26th. Radar was one of the first startups in the photo sharing business along with Flickr and the service was certainly unique considering the real time photo sharing feature. Now the startup is shutting
Mexico’s Online Population Soars 20 Percent in Past Year
May 7th
ComScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR) today released a report on Internet growth in Mexico based on data from its comScore Media Metrix service. The report found that in March there were 15.5 million home and work Internet users age 15 and older in Mexico, an increase of 20 percent from the previous year, making it one of the fastest-growing markets.
Fragging in the Sub-continent
Apr 16th
Gaming is finally getting the recognition it deserves. From being more than mere entertainement, please recollect the first days of Pong, to the current days of COD Modern Warfare 2 (three words for that…OMG), gaming has become recognized world over as a business and an art. India is not far behind when it comes to not only being the largest market for games and gaming consoles, but is now a major hub for games development and game testing. With numerous entrepreneurs coming out of premier business and technology schools like the IIM’s and IITs, games development in India is all set to pull a Veni,Vidi, Frag.
