Digsby has created a new Facebook application allowing you to “video chat with all your Facebook friends for the first time ever right from the Facebook website and post screenshots of your ChatVille adventures to Facebook albums.” If you are not already using it, Digsby is the best all in one instant messaging platform out there. While I prefer to use TweetDeck to manage my own as well as our company social networking channels, the ability to integrate Gchat and Windows Messenger into one application (as well as AIM, Yahoo and ICQ, but who uses those anymore?!?) and to then create custom groupings of friends, coworkers and clients is especially convenient. Thankfully we have already covered Chatroulette but after receiving the pop-up notification from Digsby, (great potential for advertising?) I decided that in the interests of science, I would sign up. After acquiescing to the mandatory Facebook soul privacy-signing-away, I was ready to go:
The 2008 Barack Obama web program was the most successful online campaign in history. And its not really close. Given its impact, it is no surprise that www.barackobama.com has quickly become the most borrowed from design in the history of politics. If you pay attention, you’ll see echoes of it everywhere....
Continue ReadingMatt Pizzimenti is concerned about how Facebook’s privacy policies and settings have evolved over the last little bit; that is why he started the ReclaimPrivacy project. He has created an application that people can easily use after they login into their Facebook account.
The application scans their privacy settings and provides alerts about several settings that one can use to hide various aspects of their account from anyone’s view. ...
Continue ReadingWhen you get down to it, campaign websites typically have two main audiences: (1) people looking to learn about a candidate and (2) supporters looking for ways to help the campaign out. Most campaign website designs focus on the supporter audience, taking on a look that is somewhere between a news site and an action center. ...
Continue ReadingLast night I had the privilege of attending the DC chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators meeting headlined by Amy Mitchell of the Pew Center on the State of the News Media in 2010.
In our 2007 report covering America’s Newspapers and the Internet, we argued that the Internet does not necessarily have to be a threatening competitor for newspapers....
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