• Facebook making your name & picture more social. Starts using them in ads. This is how to opt out

    What is the Facebook Social Ads campaign? It allows companies to use your name and profile picture in advertisements targeted to your friends. If you ‘like’ something then pages, events or apps can have your name and picture displayed in online ads for participating companies. If you ‘like’ Sony, for example, your face would show…

  • Songtrust + MySpace (yes they are still running) =Cash for music writers

    Songtrust and Myspace Music have announced a partnership to bring Songtrust’s music publishing management services to the Myspace’s audience of DIY songwriters and bands. Songtrust’s digital rights management solution empowers indie songwriters and artists to manage their music publishing and related rights. Songtrust thus aims to streamline what has historically been a complicated process of protecting song…

  • SocioClean (Does not work as advertised but still helpful)

    Today’s post on the gov asking for Facebook passwords and logins got me thinking. What would an employer find on my account?  There is an app for that. Sort of. It’s a website. If you’re applying for a job or school, you’re always warned that your Facebook profile can be your demise. You try to block…