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Mediatwits #21: Social Wars: Facebook’s Timeline, Media Grab; Google+ Dead or Alive?

The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the CUNY J-Camp series of Continuing Professional Development workshops focused on emerging trends and skill sets in the industry.

Welcome to the 21st episode of “The Mediatwits,” the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift’s Mark Glaser and entrepreneur Rafat Ali. This week is a special edition the war between the social networks, and what that means for the media world. Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at f8 to announce big changes to Facebook, including a new Timeline to showcase media from your entire life, as well as open graph apps that let you view media within Facebook. But he spent very little time talking about privacy issues. Do we all want to share our whole life on Facebook, baby photos and all?

Special guests Dan Reimold, a MediaShift contributor and assistant journalism professor at the University of Tampa, and SiliconFilter’s Frederic Lardinois talked about the changes at Facebook, as well as whether Google+ has staying power. Google’s social network just opened up to the general public, but will it remain “dead” as Reimold contended in a controversial opinion piece on MediaShift, or can it thrive as a hub for techies and media people? And where does that leave Twitter?

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Intro and outro music by 3 Feet Up; mid-podcast music by Autumn Eyes via Mevio’s Music Alley.

Here are some highlighted topics from the show:

Intro

1:20: Mark in Boston for ONA and MediaShift Mixer

3:30: New wave of digital media conferences booming?

4:10: Rundown of topics on our show: battle of Facebook vs. Google+

Facebook’s Timeline, Open Graph update

Frederic Lardinois

5:30: Zuckerberg and the fake Zuckerberg take the stage at f8

7:30: A news reader built into Facebook? Ticker, Timeline, Open Graph apps

10:30: Photographers jumped from Flickr to Google+

Lardinois and Reimold on Facebook vs. Google+

11:10: Special guests Frederic Lardinois and Dan Reimold

14:10: Reimold used Facebook to keep in touch with old friends

16:10: Reimold: College students not interested in Google+

19:00: Reimold explains his bad experience with G+

20:50: Lardinois: Google+ is hopping every day for me, best place for engagement

Dan Reimold

24:00: Rafat: the more you give to a social network, the more you get back

27:00: Lardinois: More updates coming with Google+

31:20: LinkedIn becoming a driver for traffic to media sites?

33:00: Mark: Media people will watch social wars carefully

Future for Color app, WSJ Social

35:00: Rafat went to WSJ Social launch

36:40: WSJ free on Facebook for the month

More Reading

Tell Your Story with Timeline at Facebook blog

Introducing Facebook Timeline at Facebook

Sorry Facebook, But That Stuff I Share on Your Site is Not the Story of My Life at SiliconFilter

Facebook Announcement Signals the Age of Discovery at Huffington Post

Google+: Social Media Upstart Worse Than a Ghost Town at MediaShift

The Influencers Verdict: the Google+ example by Loic Le Meur

Google+ is Really Taking Off! Millions Joining Daily. 30% Increase in Users in last 2 days at Google+ by Paul Allen

Color App is Back in Full Effect…Under Facebook at AppScout

WSJ Social, For a World Where Facebook Is the New Internet at Forbes.com

Weekly Poll

Don’t forget to vote in our weekly poll, this time about your favorite social network:

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit. and Circle him on Google+

The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the CUNY J-Camp series of Continuing Professional Development workshops focused on emerging trends and skill sets in the industry.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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