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Shared links for the past week

Aaron Schwartz, Lance Armstrong and Facebook’s Big Brother, here are my picks for the previous week from the web:

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Shared links for the past week

In a week where the world was suppose to end and dominated by Instagram’s new Terms of Service, my handpicked links:

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My favorite links for the last week

A roundup of my favorite links in the past week, where Yahoo released a totally revamped iOS app (but forgot Android).

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Links for 2012-05-31

Some of the most interesting links I found for 2012-05-31


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Why big companies are poison to the startups…

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“If you cant beat laser cat, you probably deserve to die.”

via How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Great, great article at Gizmodo. It’s the story of Flickr and Yahoo but it could also be the story of Delicious, Upcoming, Jaiku, Dodgeball or many other promising startups being swallowed by Yahoo, Google or Microsoft. Most of the times big companies don’t care about community and innovation, they only care about monetizing the startup contents and integrating them into their big mashup of apps. That’s why Flickr lost the train on almost everything since being bought by Yahoo, infected by the disease of its parent company.

 

 

 

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My initial thoughts on Google+

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My rants and praises regarding Google’s new adventure through the social networking world, updated on the go.

  • Like Google’s new look, is sleek and sexy (specially GMail’s newest themes), regarding Google+ everything is uncluttered. Pretty much the way I like a web design.
  • Can’t find a way to import external sources (big no, no).
  • Android app is sexy! The photo above is the app’s dashboard.
  • Still trying to find out how Sparks, Huddles and Hangouts will work for me.
  • I already have groups on Google Contacts, why can’t I somehow sync or import them to my Circles?
  • Still no stupid games (Farmville and such) or quizzes. Yet… Like Scoble pointed out “average users” will only start to use it much later.
  • It tends to flood your Gmail Inbox, just like Buzz did, must turn off some checkboxes.

Avoid social noise in your timeline

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Lately I’ve been growing a “pet hatred” towards applications that automatically post updates to Twitter or Facebook, specially those that do it often, I’m thinking in “I’m in [some place]” kind of posts of location-based services like Gowalla and Foursquare or the “Just listened to [some song]” updates of media players, just to name a few. The problem with these updates is that there’s no added value, nothing really relevant to share; while sometimes generated updates are useful, posting blog updates is the best example, in most cases a automated tool can’t add content, can’t share what’s so cool about that song or place, can’t share the context for that update. This often means a noisy timeline that people want to avoid and that’s why automated update services should be used sparingly, prefer sharing items explicitly and really sharing something rather that dumping stuff the timeline.