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Finally, a video that reveals the power of social media and why it’s changing us all!

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Here’s my pick of the week’s top social media news. Do you agree with my list? You can vote stories up or down, or you can add ones you think are worthy.
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What to do when someone is ripping you off! Someone has taken your original content and is using it online as if it were their own. How frustrating!

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Good new for Android users!  Now you can use voice commands to use Facebook thanks to a new app, Friends Aloud, created by VoiZapp Inc.  It lets users  access, listen to, and post status updates and comments – all by voice.
Some voice command features include:
•hearing the latest Facebook newsfeed posts and  comments read out
•dictating status updates, comments, and “like” friends’ posts
•hearing common computer jargon such as smiley faces and texting-style abbreviations (LOL, ROTFLMAO, happy/sad faces, etc.) read out
This new voice app will let people use Facebook while driving, walking or …

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If you had to quit one social network, which would it be?  This is my most-answered Facebook question ever posed with 57 people taking the time to register a vote.

Unfortunately for Pinterest, the newest platform of all is the one that folks say they would quit first, with 22 people singling it out.
Next comes the much-maligned Google+ with 14 people willing to leave it in the dust.
Perhaps surprising, Facebook!  Six people would leave the most popular of social networks.
Five would kick Twitter to the curb.
Four would shirk LinkedIn.
Three would leave …

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The Debtor List  is a free service that provides a searchable, public database where users can submit a claim for debts owed to them. Once a claim has been filed, users use social media tools like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google +1 to share the claim with their social network. The power of social media circulates the claim in the web and motivates the debtor(s) to pay.

The Debtor is informed of the claim via email and has a chance to dispute the claim. Otherwise the claim remains searchable on the …

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Most Gmail users will have received at least one message from Google this week (I received ten) explaining the company’s new privacy policy.  The company has more than 60 privacy policies tied to its various products and services and so, in March 2012, it will be streamlining this all down into one policy.
Many bloggers and Internet industry pundits are saying this new approach is all a little too ‘Big Brother’ for comfort.  Maybe it is.  But this unified approach seems inevitable considering Google ubiquity across the Web.  The only surprise …

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On Wednesday of last week it went dark in many corners of the Internet. Thousands of websites went black in protest of a bill currently being considered by Congress in the USA: the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA).  Here’s Clay Shirkey’s explanation of why SOPA affects us all…including folks outside of America.

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Google is personalizing  search results by including more Google+ profiles, business pages, posts, and Google+ and Picasa photos in a significant new initiative called Search plus Your World.
It will allow each user to surface content that has been shared with him or her on Google+ along with information that has been shared publicly integrated into typical Web search results.
Three types of Google+ content will be included in  Search plus Your World results: personal results, profiles in search and profiles and pages. Results may include non-public Google+ photos and posts that …

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Jeff Jarvis is coming to Ottawa on Friday to launch his new book Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live.  Folks attending Third Tuesday will get a personally autographed copy the book!
Jeff is a recogised social media pioneer…he was the man behind Dell Hell, the defacto case study on brand social media engagement.  He’s a blogger at Buzz Machine and the author of What Would Google Do?  He’s also associate professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the …