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Everyone should be adjusting their privacy settings, especially for “How people bring your info to apps they use”. Especially after watching this, hopefully. OK. Starting to wonder how many PDF files you might receive if you requested for one, too? The implication of not removing this is that you have no control over what applications your friends are adding, and what these third-party applications are doing with your data. With this new feature, it makes [...]

Often, the return on investment (ROI) for social media activities has been unclear, and it is hard to measure influence, engagement but this week, Facebook is introducing a new metric for social media measurement “People Are Talking About This”. It counts the number of Likes, comments, shares, RSVPs and tagged mentions of a brand that take place within the social network. On top of that, there will also be ‘Number of Friends of Fans,’ and [...]

A big chunk of Blackberry users are from Indonesia. Initially, I thought the page was really great – wow 600-800 comments in every single post. Coming from over 800,000 members it is considered a quite an engaging page. But as I clicked in, they were all filled with spam by users posting their own BBM pins as a form of exchanging contacts. It is definitely a different culture – and better still, they recently renamed the [...]

So Shaker emerged as the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011. Of course, just like every other TechCrunch reader, I was excited to test it out. In my first minute of loading the app, Shaker seems like a mash-up of Second Life and Habbo Hotel. The only difference seems to be that the entire experience is based in a bar.