Filed under: Developer, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Kevin Marks speaks Open Social with Download Squad’s Christina Warren from Download Squad on Vimeo.
With all the buzz around OpenSocial, it’s simple to get lost in hype. While we were at SXSW we caught up with Kevin Marks, a man with more techno-credibility than you can shake a stick at. He’s currently working on OpenSocial for Google, and he’s got a lot to state about the concepts behind organizing and connecting the diaspora which is the current state of the social web. Our own Christina Warren cuts through the hype in this short interview.

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Filed under: Macintosh, Yahoo!, Social Software, Beta

Yahoo! has just released Yahoo! Messenger Beta 3 for the Mac, with the long-awaited, much-crowed for addition of voice calling.

With the latest version of Messenger for the Mac, users can make free PC-to-PC calls (yes, a Mac is a PC too) to other Messenger buddies. You can also sign up for a Phone Out account to make calls to landlines and mobile phones. Or, if you want to go all the way, you can sign up for a Phone In account, which assigns you a number so people can call you on your PC.

In other words: picture Skype, but with a massive yellow smiley face instead of a cool blue speak bubble.

Check out the Yahoo! Messenger blog for a complete rundown of the new features and a handy screencast.

[via TUAW]

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Kevin Marks talks Open Social with Download Squad’s Christina Warren from Download Squad on Vimeo.
With all the buzz around OpenSocial, it’s simple to get lost in hype. While we were at SXSW we caught up with Kevin Marks, a man with more techno-credibility than you can shake a stick at. He’s currently working on OpenSocial for Google, and he’s got a lot to say about the concepts behind organizing and connecting the diaspora which is the current state of the social web. Our own Christina Warren cuts through the hype in this short interview.

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Filed under: Audio, Social Software

New York City hipsters have struck again, bringing quick and easy mixtape sharing to the ‘net at Muxtape.com. The site was built by Justin Ouellette, and early mixes have been uploaded by Jakob Lodwick (of Vimeo) and Patrick Moberg (of nygirlofmydreams.com fame). Muxtape is simple as pie: upload songs in mp3 format, drag and drop to organize, send the link to your friends.

Muxtapes hold up to 12 songs in a nice minimal layout (LARGE TYPE! CLICK TO PLAY! CLICK AGAIN TO STOP!). You can’t download songs directly from other people’s Muxtapes, which keeps the focus on finding good new artists to support. Justin says RSS feeds and m4a support are already in the works, so Muxtape should just keep getting easier.

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Filed under: Pic, Security, Social Software

Add this to the list of things we think probably shouldn’t be downloaded: your private Facebook pics. Earlier this week, Facebook patched an exploit discovered by the Associated Press. Reporters were apparently even able to gain access to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s 2005 vacation photos.

Even though this particular hack, which was reportedly done by making a slight change to the URL, is now fixed, the lesson isn’t to assume that the privacy settings on sites like Facebook and MySpace will absolutely protect your pics. The good news is that Zuckerberg has said in interviews that privacy is going to be Facebook’s major focus as social network data becomes more portable, and additional privacy settings were introduced last week. In spite of all that hard work, though, this incident suggests Facebook still has a lot of work to do.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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