Social Media Today: The Privacy is Coming, A Magazine That Doesn’t Suck comes to iPad, Former Facebook Prez Tells it Like it Is

• May 26th, 2010
• Posted by Ron Schott
• Posted in Uncategorized

While it’s still a few ticks before 9am here in the Spring Creek Group World Headquarters, the rest of the world has been churning for hours. Here’s what’s been going on already:

Facebook Set to Roll out New Privacy Controls

As if you hadn’t hear about it enough, Facebook is primed and ready to roll out new privacy controls aimed at making your choices a bit easier.

The only question that begs to be asked is: if they could do it this quickly, why not just do it in the first place?

UPDATE: We don’t move quite as quick in the morning. While this post was working its way through the pipes Facebook announced their new privacy updates. Go here for the scoop.

My iPad Just got Useful

Wired Magazine, the perennial geek rag of lore, was one of the first magazines that announced they’d be rolling out an iPad compatible version. Now, a little more than two months later, you can download Wired in all its interactive glory (all 527MB of it) and pinch, scroll, and flip to your heart’s content.

From what I’ve seen so far, the app (and this issue) are incredibly interactive, which is pretty awesome. Not sure how many times I’ll throw down a fiver for a magazine I’m afraid to take to the bathroom, but we’ll see.

Hit the link (to the App Store) to check it out (for $4.99) – Wired Magazine

Sean Parker on Why MySpace and Friendster are Eating Dust

This next piece comes to us from www.socialmediatoday.com, a great site that takes an in-depth look at the social media landscape.

In this piece, former Facebook president Sean Parker talks a bit about how Facebook rose to the top – and it wasn’t because they had a better product, but really because MySpace and Friendster were just doing it all wrong.