We’re very pleased to announce that as of yesterday evening we were officially invited into the all-top family and you can now find social medium under http://social-media.alltop.com/ and http://tech.alltop.com/.

But what does this mean? Well firstly it means that if you are already using alltop and have a MyAlltop account you can now include our updates in with all of your other ones. It’s also good news for us as our updates can now be opened up to a new audience who might not otherwise have come across our blog.

PS: As we’re the newbies you can find us right at the bottom

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facebook and myspace have always been completely polar. facebook concentrated on web standards and usibility but was clueless at how to make any money and saps the life out of it’s investors. MySpace on the other hand was made out of bits of old shoes but was designed so badly that it served 4x as many ads and instantly made a profit.

However, are things starting to change?

Facebook has a history of unethical behaviour most recently when it defaulted everyones privacy settings to public under the guise of ‘making privacy simpler‘. It also has a reputation for having a good user experience (i have no idea why). So how come, when they recently redesigned the homepage did they make the user experience worse? Everyone has been too busy looking at the top of the page to notice the gaping void at the bottom….

the bookmarks have gone!

This means that in order to check your groups or fan pages (to name a few) you now have to travel back to the homepage in order to get the link. But why would facebook de-evolve the user experience when it worked perfectly before?! Well, the FACT is that it now means the impressions on the homepage will have increased considerably which would suggest they plan to sell that space at a premium.

Even if that is not the plan then they have still retrograded the user experience and knowing facebook, they’re bound to have an ulterior motive for doing so.

(while we wait to see what happens we’re just going to go on google buzz and let our neightbours know we’re going out and will be gone long enough for them to sneak in and use our swings in the back garden without us knowing. What’s a privacy?)

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