Done Digging Digsby

Over a year and a half ago I announced that I was “digging Digsby” the multi-protocol instant messaging application. What wasn’t to love? It handled most instant messaging networks, Twitter, Facebook (added later) notifications and chat, along with some pretty solid email notification features as well. Oh, and all your settings are managed separately so

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Facebook Privacy

Facebook announced some Privacy Policy changes this past week and many users just skipped over the announcements to get to Mafia Wars and Farmville… If you’re one of those, there are a few things you really should be aware of.

From the policy:

“Everyone” Privacy Setting. Information set to “everyone” is publicly available information, may be accessed

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Twitter Lists – Useful!

I have to confess that when Twitter’s new “list” feature was announced my response was a well-reasoned “meh.” I just didn’t see the point and had little interest in investigating…

Fortunately (for me!) I decided to play around the feature a bit this morning. Right away, my first thought was that it would be cool to

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Interesting Updates

BeTwittered – I first mentioned BeTwittered in passing in my Social Bankruptcy post. It is one of many clients for Twitter, the popular micro-blog.

I haven’t used it for the past few months (Socialthing has become my favorite/easiest way to monitor all the social thingies) but I decided to have another peek at BeTwittered this

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OK Twitter, Maybe it WAS Me Too…

Two days ago I gave up on Twitter. Yep, I quit and I quit publicly.

This afternoon I started up again.

Pretty weak, eh? For what it’s worth, I still “stand behind” most of what I wrote. Clearly, I need to manage my own little tensions though…

It seems FriendFeed isn’t quite ready to be an alternative to

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