Instagram Drama, Google Plus Upgrades, and More: the Social 6 for 12/19/12
Morning, team! Yesterday was a bit too busy to run a Social 6 as usual, but the continuing drama around Instagram's privacy policy make a few appearances on today's roundup of yesterday's most important stories. Also noteworthy is Google's continuing moves to, essentially, turn Google Plus into a monster that touches upon all of your Google-related interactions. Here's your Social 6:
#6: Running a competition on Twitter or Facebook? How to get the basics right (Memeburn)
#5: Google Plus pushes more improvements (better photos, Hangouts, mobile apps) (MakeUseOf)
#4: Google Plus Testing Social Sharing Bar (Mashable)
#3: The case for choosing Flickr over Instagram (ReadWriteWeb)
#2: Is Facebook Advertising Worth The Investment? (Business 2 Community)
#1: Instagram Responds: 'We Hear You' [but offers little in way of apologies] (Mashable)
Facebook's Privacy Chances, Photo Wars, and Kevin Smith: the Social 6 News Roundup for 12/13/12
Lots of news regarding Facebook's privacy changes over the last 24 hours, as well as the ongoing disagreement between Facebook and Twitter with respect to photo sharing. There's also a goingsoci.al piece built off of a segment from my Going Social book which seemed to get quite a good chunk of your clicks as well. I'm humbled. Here's your Social 6:
#6: Kate Upton was the #6 most searched person in US in 2012 (TIME Style)
#5: Facebook's Privacy Evolution Crawls Another Step Out Of The Ooze (ReadWriteWeb)
#4: Who leads the world in mobile web use? If you guessed UK, you'd be right (The Guardian)
#3: Kevin Smith, and the Problem with Influencer Identification (Going Social)
#2: As Facebook and Twitter Feud Over Photos, Yahoo & Flickr Play Well With Others (All Things D)
#1: Here's how Facebook's privacy changes bring it closer to being the one sole social network (All Things D)
Mixing sharing with privacy: Facebook debuts its Shared Activity plugin
Via its Developers blog, Facebook today announced the launch of its Shared Activity plugin, which gives users the ability to control the activities they share to Facebook directly from any web app.
The plugin offers developers a simple way to implement user controls needed to work with Facebook's Open Graph built-in actions.
More from the Developers blog:
"The Shared Activity plugin lists a person's activities published from your app to Facebook including Open Graph activities, Like button stories, and comment plugin activities. For example, when an individual uses a music app, she could modify the privacy settings, through the plugin, for specific song listening activities, without needing to go back to Facebook to control what's shown. Similarly, if a person, through a travel app, likes a restaurant or reviews a hotel, and decides that these activities should only be viewable to a select group on friends on Facebook, he can control this within the plugin as well."
This is one of many recent steps Facebook has taken to encourage the general public to share more, while at the same time assure consumers that their sharing activity can be modified at any time. It will be interesting to see how quickly the Shared Activity plugin gains mass adoption.
