NOTICE:  Many of you have heard about Facebook Places.  Well regardless whether you have or not, or even have an interest in it, there is something you should know anyway.  
Facebook has already added a setting to your ‘privacy’ settings in regards to this new application.  You should try and understand what ‘Places’ is all about and decide if you want to participate or not.

No matter what you decide on, you need to at least check your privacy settings and protect your privacy as you see fit.

Attached is a link to a video from Facebook discussing what ‘Places’ is, how it works, etc.  If you are familiar with ‘Foursquare’ then you will have the basic concept as ‘Places’ is based on the ‘Foursquare’ concept.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=697692691093

SIDENOTE:  There are also several other videos available to view discussing various aspects of Facebook and its various programs, settings, operations, etc.

If you have questions, contact us.  We will have more information and details tomorrow.

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WordPress.com’s millions of blogs are getting social with two new features: quick reblogging and the ability to “like” posts.

The newly launched features are now accessible via a like menu item in the admin bar at the top of the page, although you have to be logged into a WordPress account to use them. The new like button is very simple — once you click it, it adds to a counter that shows the author how many people liked his or her post.

Once you like something, the top menu changes to “You like this.” In that menu is the option to “Reblog this Post.” Clicking on that takes you to a pre-filled QuickPress tab, which contains the title, the beginning of the post you’re reblogging and usually an image. QuickPress is also new; it’s just a simpler, one-step interface to writing and publishing blog posts.

WordPress has also created a tab that lets you view all of the posts that you’ve liked. The page provides excerpts from each post and a search box for quickly finding posts on a specific topic or from a specific blog.

Tumblr and Posterous in the Crosshairs

When we first saw WordPress’s new social features, we were immediately reminded of short-form blog platforms Tumblr and Posterous.

Reblogging and liking are core features of the Tumblr platform, and Posterous has distinguished itself with its dead-simple blogging options. Both have been growing over the last few years, emerging as more user-friendly alternatives to WordPress. It was simply tougher to write and publish a blog post on WordPress.com or through the WordPress software.

QuickPress directly addresses that problem, and we bet the liking feature will also prove to be popular. It’s an easy way to bookmark posts, and in order to reblog, you have to like a post first. While these new features may not bring loyal Tumblr users back to WordPress, it should appease those who have complained about the difficulty of publishing posts.

http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/wordpress-quickpress-like/

A new clickjacking worm is spreading through Facebook via the “Like” feature. The attack, which is said to have hit hundreds of thousands of users, uses a combination of social engineering and clickjacking to make it appear as if a user has “liked” a link.

The messages that are being used in the link text include, “LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE,” “This man takes a picture of himself EVERYDAY for 8 YEARS!!,” “The Prom Dress That Got This Girl Suspended From School” and “This Girl Has An Interesting Way Of Eating A Banana (), Check It Out!”

When a user clicks on the text that appears to be “liked” he is taken to a blank page that just has the text, “Click here to continue.” Clicking anywhere on that page will then publish the same message to that users Facebook () page.

This vector is extremely similar to the Fbhole worm that spread across Facebook 10 days ago. Because users unwittingly end up recommending the offending page to their social graph, this is the type of worm that can spread extremely quickly.

Security firm Sophos has identified the linked pages as being infected with the Troj/iframe-ET worm. It doesn’t appear as if the worm does anything other than add likes to your feed, but if you’ve been infected, you’ll still want to take action.

Sophos recommends deleting any entries in your news feed related to the links and check your profile and info pages to make sure that no links or pages related to those sites have been added to your profile.

http://mashable.com/2010/05/31/facebook-like-worm-clickjack/

http://mashable.com/2010/05/30/android-productivity-apps/