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Facebook Launches Facebook Bill of Rights, Reverts to Previous Terms of Use
If you read any tech publication this week, you couldn't have helped but encounter the brouhaha over Facebook's revised Terms of Use. Now, Facebook has decided to return to its previous Terms - dated September 23, 2008 - until it can better determine how to proceed. To help ensure they don't make the same mistakes again, they've also started the "Facebook Bill of Rights," a Facebook group formed specifically to allow people "to give input [+]Most Mashable: Popular Social Media Stories This Week
What were the most intriguing social media stories on Mashable this past week? What were you socially bookmarking, blogging, Twittering, “liking”, emailing and sharing with your online friends and followers from Monday through Sunday? It’s time to look back at the week in social media. 1. HOW TO: Live Inside Twitter and Still Stay Productive - Elliott Kosmicki shows how famous timesuck Twitter can actually help you get more work done. 2. YouTube Toolbox: [+]Would You Pay $200 for an Android App? Android Market Preps Priced Applications
The Android Market was designed to be the one-stop shop for all G-1 users to download applications for their mobile handsets. As such, it had a great deal in common with the Apple iTunes App Store - save for one specific feature: the ability for developers to charge for their apps. Now, even that feature will be common between the two application stores as the Android Market prepares to release support for priced applications. Sponsor Developers from [+]SnapMyLife’s Genius Use of … Humans
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: SnapMyLife Quick Pitch: SnapMyLife is a mobile-web community for instantly saving, sharing, and discovering photos around the world with location tagging and maps. Genius Idea: SnapMyLife offers a familiar method for getting your camera [+]Flickit: Gracefully Add iPhone Photos to Flickr
On any given day, there are thousands of people snapping iPhone photos and uploading them to Flickr. So many in fact, that the iPhone is one of the top five cameras. That's amazing - but not for the reasons you'd think. It's amazing because the default process of getting a photo from the iPhone to Flickr should be easier. And while any number of apps have attempted to solve that problem, Flickit handles the [+]Oregon Trail to Journey into the iPhone App Store
Remember when you were young and you were tasked with the role of wagon leader and solely responsible for the fate of your fellow pioneers as you traversed the dangerous trail connecting Independence, Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley? If you’re anything like me, you failed miserably at your duties, with settlers dying off faster than you could hunt and catch food. But very soon, you’ll be able to redeem yourself. Yep, you guessed it, we’re talking [+]Twestival.fm: Live Aid for Twitter
A new charity effort called Twestival.fm, which bills itself as "a kind of Twitter-driven Live Aid", aims to raise $20,000 USD in 2 weeks using music donated by artists on Twitter. People can download MP3s for free, but are encouraged to give a donation in exchange. Twestival.fm currently has donated tracks from over 350 artists, including Bloc Party, Imogen Heap, the Mystery Jets and Erol Alkan. The money raised will go to Charity: Water, a [+]The Most Mashable Social Media Stories This Week
What were the most intriguing social media stories on Mashable this week? What were you socially bookmarking, blogging, Twittering, “liking”, emailing and sharing with your online friends and followers? It’s time to look back at the week in review. 1. Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand - Dan Schawbel on using social media sites to build a personal brand. 2. Social Music: Top 5 Music Recommendation Services - Jennifer Van Grove picks [+]
