Has Your Twitter/Jaiku Rss Feed Been Hijacked?

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Permalink Reply by Sylvia Martinez on February 9, 2008 at 9:01am

One thing I've done to keep track of uses of my name is to set up Google alerts on things of interest to me You could do school name, company name, your common login name...

Another thing is to set up a Technorati search for the same things. All Technorati search results have RSS feeds that you can subscribe to in your RSS reader. You can do the same thing with Tweetscan - set up an RSS feed for your twitter id, or something you want to track. A couple weeks ago I set up a Tweetscan RSS feed to watch for mentions of "Educon" - so I could find people twittering about it even if i wasn't following them. It was really helpful at the conference for finding people and planning things.

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Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on February 9, 2008 at 10:12am

Thanks Sylvia for these great ideas for tracking our names etc.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on February 9, 2008 at 10:37am

Thanks for this dialog Susan as certainly we need to discuss these balances between openness, sharing and connectivity and privacy, especially when abuse and personal security are involved.

I just made a mega EduMashup Madness flash badge that pulls all my feeds (including friends) .. now that IS SCARY, Now if I can just get the links to work!!!!

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Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on February 9, 2008 at 11:05am

Great name! Hope you get it to work. If we're talking scary, have you seen spokeo.com which will find feeds from anyone who happens to be in your email contact list.

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Permalink Reply by SusanTsairi on February 9, 2008 at 10:37am

As I think I already mentioned , one thing that worried me was the thought that my family, students or employer could have (theoretically) found that profile before me. Had that been the case I would not have had the relevant information to prove that "there is smoke without fire"

Maybe it would be an idea to keep some kind of list of bogus sites - (not with links to the offending sites so as not to provide them with more traffic, possibly screenpics or the like.)

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Permalink Reply by Christine Southard on February 9, 2008 at 12:18pm

While profile stealing is an issue that I"m concerned about and I wish I had more control over. I wish we also had control over who had access to our rss feeds through twitter, my blog, etc., as it is too anonymous for me. Maybe it is time for the technology to adapt and give us control over who has access to our rss. Has anyone contacted twitter about their hijacked feeds?

BTW - Thanks Sylvia for the great ideas. Google alert is one of my favorite tools and I wasn't even using it to alert me about me. :)

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Permalink Reply by John Plummer on February 13, 2008 at 3:14am

I had never heard of Jaiku until I read this post, Twitter I already have. I'll join Jaiku as it looks fun. I think though that the message on their homepage that Google is going to buy them is a little worrying. There used to be a website www.jot.com that created wikis and stuff and since Google bought them out nothing has happened with their site, registrations are all closed off and have been since the buyout. I read online that Google has done this with other sites to kill them off so they could promote their own versions of the sites. I hope this isn't happening here too. I am curious if you guys use Twitter or Jaiku with ESL students and what you use them for. I work in Brasil as and English teacher and getting my students to look at stuff online other than Orkut is hard work. I had some success with some Wikispaces I set up for them. I really like the idea of using the internet with my students as it give opportunities to do more than just the classroom stuff.

Oh :-( I just read that they closed off registrations in Jaiku, shame :-(

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