From the monthly archives:

April 2010

Paypal about to leap into iPhone and Android Apps

by Todd Lucier on April 25, 2010

Paypal jumps across appsApple has approved a Paypal mobile payment solution that works across different applications on iPhone. What this will mean is travelers will soon be able to pay for goods and services from within a wide variety of applications on iPhone within Paypal. Ditto for Android phones.

The next phase of development for tourism business apps will be to integrate Paypal payments; making it easy for mobile phone users to pay for tourism services from the palm of their hand.

Frankly, I’m not sure why more restaurants haven’t offered diners the option of paying their tab using the existing Paypal app. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

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F*c****k off! Mark *ucker****
You can’t sell my profile.

by Todd Lucier on April 23, 2010

Facebook (F*c****k) has an idea of permission that goes a lot like this.

“It’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission!”

Facebook Breaches Customers Trust

When it comes to my privacy and my data, Facebook should not have permission to share my data with Facebook business partners at Facebook’s whim.  I should not have to opt out of sharing my data.  I should be invited to choose to share my data if I so wish.

Facebook shifting its business model without the permission of customers is a blatant breach of trust.

In addition to the changes to Facebook re: “Like” vs “Become a Fan of” Mark Zuckerberg (*ucker****) and his team have made users choose to opt out of making my public information available to Facebook selected businesses when I first arrive on their websites.  Facebook has put a positive spin on the privacy changes highlighting the value of sharing your data with your Facebook friends at the same time as letting the business partners have access to your data.  Knowing Facebook, the last thing I want to do is leave this doorway open for Facebook to add partners at their leisure, opening up my data to anyone they want to share it with.

Facebook has sold access to my data to its business partners and I have chosen to opt out.

opt out of Facebook sharing your data with their business partners

. . . and this just in from Slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/24/1222210/Facebook-Retroactively-Makes-More-User-Data-Public?from=twitter

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Get ready for more facebook fans who “Like” your business

April 21, 2010

Facebook has changed the become a fan button to “Like”. (again!  The change first surfaced a few days ago, but this time it looks permanent) Facebook once asked visitors to Become a Fan. Generating a higher click rate on the button that was formally called “Become a Fan” was the goal of Mark Zuckerberg and [...]

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Listimonkey – Get Filtered Tweets to your Inbox

April 19, 2010

Let’s face it, although social networking and time on twitter, facebook and other social sites has grown to eclipse email, many folks still spend a great deal of time in email. Listimonkey is a great tool for tracking Twitter conversations on demand in email. Receiving filtered tweets and Twitter list digests in your inbox may [...]

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Partner with your Community College – NOW!

April 16, 2010

It’s the end of another school term and that means its time to reach out to your local community college to get the skills you need to improve your team. This week we are delighted to be working with an intern for a 100 hour placement with our tourism business.  A current graduating student from [...]

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Uploading Photos to a Flickr Group Pool: NightCrawlers – Pachamama

April 7, 2010

I’ve created a group on Flickr for everyone to share Ecuador trip photos. Flickr is the most popular photo sharing Web site on the Internet and the NightCrawlers – Pachamama group allows everyone who was on our trip to upload photos and link them to this group. By following these instructions trip participants can share [...]

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