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Google adds all the right stuff to sharing items

You've been able to share items with your Google Reader friends forever. You could also publish a page of all the articles and pages you share to the public in HTML or RSS format. Google added a bunch of new features to Google Reader today that enhance the experience of sharing items with people. If you're a regular reader of my site, you might remember that I specifically asked for these features back in February: Currently, I’m using Facebook Shared Items to compliment my Google Reader shared items, mostly because I can personalize the message and give my shared item ...

Facebook Shared Items now in Tumble Log. It was harder than it should've been!

As a point of notification, I've now started to include my Facebook Shared Items in my Tumble Log (how's that for openness!). While it's technically true that I can export all of my shared items from Facebook via a handy RSS feed, it's not nearly that cut & dry. I treat Facebook Shared Items as a sort of social bookmarking service. I have a bookmarklet in my browser's toolbar and when I run across a site I enjoy, I stab it, enter any thoughts of my own and click submit. Facebook tries to extract an image from the page as ...

Your social graph: do you own the data?

A big stupid brou-ha-ha erupted last night when blogged Robert Scoble ran a script written by Plaxo against his 5,000 Facebook friends' information and got banned in short order. Scoble initially posted that Facebook banned his account and only later admitted he'd been screen scraping, or brute-force removing information from Facebook using an unnamed tool by a 3rd party (he was under NDA). Scoble was miffed that Facebook would ban him for trying to help "free" his "own social data" that "he owns." This isn't a new movement, people have been pressuring Facebook for a while now to let them ...

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