Tech It Like A Man!

The official release to the public won’t be until January. It’s an application that brings together the functionality of social networking. Instead of just between friends, advertisers can join in the fun. They are able to see blogger’s profiles without even logging in. Bloggers have friends lists, profiles for each of their blogs, and a way for you to see the posts they place on their blogs, sponsored and not.

It’s very web 2.0! You can find out even more from the people who saw it first. Check out Colleen’s post about what SocialSpark entails.

Technorati Tags: SocialSpark

PayPerPost (IZEA) Announces SocialSpark
The cat is out of the bag. In just a few more minutes this knowlege will hit the blogosphere proper. I just wanted you all to get a heads up beforehand. SocialSpark aims to change the world of blog advertising FOREVER. If you want to see it go live, check out the live feed from Vegas.

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Tags: payperpost, socialspark, socialnetworking, marketing, seo, sem

I am forever frustrated by the way one must search through the internet. Ask has it close to right, but where can I just go to search the way that I think? My buddy Marisa just gave me a clue as to how I can do that.

The hakia Search Engine is still in beta phase, but prides itself on you being able to search the way you think and talk. For instance, if you really want to ask a question, go right ahead. The results may surprise you.

I am going to go play with it a bit more myself. I am rather pleased with them and am going to take full advantage of their Firefox extension.

The other day I logged into my Facebook account, to find that they are releasing a public profile to Google. I’m like …uh NO. I immediately fixed my privacy settings to reflect that I did NOT want to show up on Google with my real name and whatnot hanging out. What I didn’t know was that many people are pretty mad about the change.

How Facebook’s “public search listing” could empower users by ZDNet’s Steve O’Hear — Facebook is adding “public search listings” whereby user profiles will be indexable by Google et al. This, once again, raises the issue of privacy on the social web. In this post, I argue that Facebook profiles that show up on Google results could actually benefit users who are concerned about their represented online.

So, if you have not changed your privacy settings yet, you should definitely go do it right now. If you are okay with people searching your name and a way to contact you, then let it be.

Technorati Tags: Facebook, Google, privacy

Now what? I wonder what the next step is for Ebay as they relish their new acquisition. They bought it for a whopping $75 million. I use Stumbleupon from time to time, so I am really curious as to what Ebay is going to do with the user based web searching site. I fathom that we will see an insurgence of Ebay ads, Amazon ads, Half.com ads, and a lot of other revenue based content that looks like someone marked it as something they Stumbled. They say that not much will change with the company, but I still have to wonder what they were thinking.

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Technorati Tags: Ebay, Stumbleupon