I've been working online with communities for the past 16 and a half years, a time when message boards and Yahoo Groups (remember those?) were as social as it got. This was an era where blogs were the Wild Wild West and most folks weren't...
GigaOm has a great blog post previewing what Facebook will be launching today at their F8 conference. In short, they're launching Facebook Connect 2.0 (auto-logins), the Facebook Presence Bar (think of the one at the bottom of this page), Share/Like buttons, and Facebook Locations, which is their answer to Foursquare. This furthers the notion I've been telling clients for a while now: it's a flat out war between Google and Facebook for your attention and more importantly - your data.
I was recently quoted in the New York Times Gadget Blog around protecting your reputation online. Specifically, the question was if individuals with unsavory content online should delete it in an effort to hide it from potential employers. Before I give my answer I'll...
