CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the world on Monday that Facebook’s “drastically simplified” privacy settings would roll out in the weeks to come and here they are. Zuckerberg presented them at a press conference, just two days after his op-ed in the Washington Post and some of the changes are already in place.
“Today we’re starting to roll out some changes that will make all of these controls a lot simpler. We’ve focused on three things: a single control for your content, more powerful controls for your basic information and an easy control to turn off all applications,” he said on the official company blog.
Google has updated its toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox with a sharing feature, which enables user to share any page to a variety of social networks. Additionally, My Location is now out of Toolbar Labs and official on the Google Toolbar.
Meanwhile, if you have the RSS feed on your blog set up through Feedburner, it just got a heckuvalot easier to send your posts to Twitter. Simply go to your Feedburner account, select the feed you wish to Tweet, and then click on the “Publicize” tab to set things up.
In addition to the three updates we told you about earlier today, Bing has a bunch more as part of Bing Wave 2. Just like they other updates, they’re rolling out over the course of days, so you may not see them all right away.
Share Search Results
When you get the Bing update, you’ll be able to share individual search results with your social networks on Facebook and Twitter. You can also email a search result.
Travel
From the homepage, you’ll be able to hover over “Travel” and get options to go directly to options to search airfares and hotels.
