Happy Quit Facebook Day.Â
Think of the endless invitation griffin gb01737 outfit ice red for iphone 4 to Mafia Wars or pleas to search for a missing cow on Farmville, not the constant updates from friends who just have to tell the world that they “just can’t wait for Friday†or that a “Sausage, eggs and mee goreng and a cup of Nescafe Gold†really perked them up today. All that could come to an end.
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Last time I checked the , which officially starts today has only signed up 26,977 committed Facebook quitters out of the social networking site’s 400 million members. So good luck with that.
However, writer Steven Vaughan-Nichols has come up with a list of seven alternative sites that you might what to check out. We have his list here but you can also read the
WikiHow also has this step-by-step advice on Facebook-weary on how to kick the habbit – .
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Here’s Steve’s list:
While this open-source project is still in beta, it’s an interesting take on social networking. Instead of being under the control of one company and one set of administrators, Appleseed works via a distributed server software package tied together with the griffin gb01737 outfit ice red for iphone 4 ASN (Appleseed Social Network).
That means that as a user, you select and log into an Appleseed site. Once there, you connect with friends, send messages, share photos and videos, join discussions and participate in all the usual social networking stuff. Don’t like the specific Appleseed site you’re on? Then sign up for a different one and, according to the site, “immediately reconnect with everyone in your network.”
Diaspora, for all the headlines it’s gotten, is still not much more griffin gb01737 outfit ice red for iphone 4 than an idea.
Technically, Diaspora sounds a lot like Appleseed. It’s also going to be built from open-source software, and it’s going to be a distributed network server application. The first Diaspora code release is slated for September.
Rather than being a social network, Elgg is designed for companies and groups to run griffin gb01737 outfit ice red for iphone 4 their own social networks.
You can either run your own Elgg installation — according to the Web site, the developers will be happy to help you — or you can host your site with a provider that specializes in Elgg sites. Starting later this summer, you’ll also be able to host it on Elgg.com itself.
While businesses and social groups may find Elgg interesting, it’s not really a Facebook competitor in and of itself.
Lorea describes itself as “a project to create secure social cybernetic systems, in which human networks will become simultaneously represented on a virtual shared world.” It’s an experimental social network that combines some aspects of social networking, such as communities and real-time updating a la Twitter, with blogging.
Lorea may be less a Facebook competitor than a site for programmers who want to explore the fundamental concepts of how social networks should work.
Unlike Appleseed and Diaspora, the Vodafone Group’s OneSocialWeb is not only hoping to become a social network itself, but also to be the focal point for all the other social networks you may belong to.
For example, if OneSocialWeb works as planned, it will provide the common infrastructure from which you can access all your friends’ information, photos, comments, etc., from Twitter, Facebook and other networks.
Of course, for this to work, the other social networks would have to agree to play by OneSocialWeb’s rules — and I suspect they won’t want to make it easy for users to jump from their own network to another.
Look for a public OneSocialWeb beta later this summer.
Like Elgg, Pligg is an open-source platform for building social networks. The key difference between the two is that Pligg is also a content management system.
Specifically, Pligg is a CMS that enables users to submit and vote on news articles, like Digg. Besides the usual up-or-down voting system, Pligg offers a chance to rate the articles using a five-star scale. While more than good enough for this kind of story-sharing, Pligg really isn’t going to be the basis of a Facebook-type network.
Here’s the good news: Pip.io is already up and running, and it is a real would-be Facebook competitor. Here’s the bad news: It is still very rough.
For instance, when Steve  asked it to find members of Pip.io whom he already knew by using his Gmail contact list, it instead offered to let him invite everyone on his thousand-plus address book to join him on Pip.io.
The interface, which owes more to Twitter than to Facebook, is easy to use. It also enables you to use other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter from Pip.io. In short, Pip.io is trying to be both a social network and a social network client.
It may, eventually, do quite well at all these jobs. But for now, it’s a work in progress.
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NYC mayor shrugs off iPad e-mail address leak
NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s e-mail address was exposed because anycom hcc 500 bluetooth car kit retail packaging of a security vulnerability with his new iPad, but the billionaire media mogul shrugged it off Thursday and said he didn’t understand the fuss.
“It shouldn’t be pretty hard to figure out my e-mail address,” Bloomberg said, “and if you send me an e-mail and I don’t want to read it, I don’t open it. To me it wasn’t that big of a deal.”
AT&T Inc. said Wednesday that a security weak spot exposed the e-mail addresses — but nothing else — of more than 100,000 iPad users. Only users who signed up for AT&T’s “3G” wireless Internet service were affected.
The problem had to do with the way AT&T’s website prompted iPad anycom hcc 500 bluetooth car kit retail packaging users to log onto their AT&T accounts.
A hacker group that calls itself Goatse Security claims to have found the weakness and said it was able to trick AT&T’s site into giving up more than 114,000 e-mail addresses, including those of famous people and government officials.
Bloomberg, who founded the financial information company anycom hcc 500 bluetooth car kit retail packaging Bloomberg LP and has an estimated $18 billion fortune, said such glitches are part of modern life.
“We live in a world where information is available all over the place, and there’s going to be security breaches every day all over the world,” he said. “That’s what happens when you have information.”
In recent weeks, the mayor has often touted the Apple Inc. tablet as a helpful tool for managing a city of 8.4 million people.
AT&T said Wednesday it would notify anycom hcc 500 bluetooth car kit retail packaging all iPad users whose e-mail addresses may have been exposed.
“We take customer privacy very seriously and while we have fixed this problem, we apologize to our customers who were impacted,” the company said in a statement.
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Biker embarks on social media-driven trek across Canada
Thanks power support premium leather sleeve ipad ivory to Olivier Kerebel, I’ll never think of the French as pinky-pointed tea-sipping, croissant-nibbling wimps again. Instead, I’ll think of Olivier’s epic thigh-busting bike ride across Canada that he’s recently launch from Toronto’s Dundas Square. I’ll also think of his savvy use of social media to bring his friends along for the journey.
I met Olivier when he was crashing on a friend’s couch (set up via couchsurfing.org). The Parisian is in Canada for a year on a temporary visa, and hopes to eventually end his bike ride in Vancouver. His last blog update -/- places him in Sudbury, Ont. and he’s posted the mandatory photos of the Big Nickel.
Follow Olivier's bike journey across the country with social media.
Olivier is using an array of Web 2.0 tools to document his trip and share it with peers. He has a knack for shooting video while riding that isn’t too shaky, power support premium leather sleeve ipad ivory and even narrating a monologue while pedaling – which he somehow manages to upload to YouTube. There’s lots of pictures on his WordPress blog, and Olivier is also updating a and .
But my favourite social media feature of this biking journey is Olivier’s use of Polldaddy.com. A simple radio-button poll sits on the right side of his blog, and after June 6 Olivier’s followers will click away to decide which route he will take across the country. It reminds me of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” book series I was fond of in elementary school. The ability to help determine Olivier’s fate and how he experiences Canada during his trek adds real appeal to reading the blog.
Currently, the poll asks followers how cruel or how nice they plan to be to Olivier in their voting. Right now, it looks like Olivier’s in for a tough ride as 88 per cent of respondents indicate they’ll favour more difficult paths (including me – I’m hoping for a Grizzly encounter).
Olivier is also raising money for through his blog, and anyone can make a donation online with a credit card. His goal is a humble $1500, but I’m guessing he’ll meet enough people along the way and gain enough interest with power support premium leather sleeve ipad ivory this blog that he’ll surpass that mark before he hits the Prairies.
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