From tomorrow Social Sentry comes available -a service through which your boss may watch if you are misbehaving at social network sites: http://www.teneros.com/socialsentry/ Price as yet unknown…
This is a SaaS-based in the cloud service, the software is so advanced that it will give your boss an interpretation of your sentiments on line, your aliases are found up, and when you are a threat to his firm’s policies will ring a bell.
The data are publicly available, only Social Sentry makes your boss gets the data structured and precooked.
The dark site of technology, folks, And there are more tools to spy on social networking:
TweetDeck: http://www.tweetdeck.com/ & NetNanny, Radian6: http://www.radian6.com/
Activity Monitor: http://www.softactivity.com/employee-monitoring.asp (you see what they cannot); the expert is Google with GoogleAlerts, Nomee (an advanced TweetDeck): http://www.nomee.com/
FriendFeed http://friendfeed.com/ safe your workers have it installed; Yubby: http://corp.pczapper.nl/
Lithium can also be used as a lead spy tool: http://www.lithium.com/
So folks, be aware that whatever you do, the boss may be watching, so refrain from doin’ things that could cause you pain or make you miss chances,
Thanks for the warning Damien,
As a general rule in life, you should always be aware of your actions even if the boss ( in my case that’s Alice… ;D ) isn’t watching.
Bad habits once acquired are always hard to break so don’t get into them in the first place.
(Good advice is also easier to give then to follow.)
If you are at work, you should not be going to social sites on company time anyway … unless it is part of your job description and that would be a rarity.
why do you mention Tweetdeck as a social network spying tool ??? I’m using it, rarely, not because I don’t like it but I’m not really into the social network thing, apart from twice or three times a month…anyway that’s enough to notice that Tweetdeck is by far the best external app for twitter (using Adobe Air). So what’s spyware about it, I’m interested? I googled it and didn’t find anything…
I mean you could just as well consider that login in to Twitter allows to spy other people twitting ;D …or is there anything special about Tweetdeck that you didn’t mention…it leaves more tracks because it runs on the desktop and not in a browser? so what (well they can be easily erased), and people can’t be forced to use it if they prefer the “normal” wen interface…
Only drawback I find in tweetdeck is that it doesn’t connect in https like the web interface of twitter allows to, although sometimes it switches back randomly to http…but the good thing is that Avast network shield scans Tweetdeck activities constantly.
I know that’s not the point, the point is that you put it in the list of spying tools for Twitter, and I really wonder why…
edit: I’m actually noticing now, running Fiddler, that tweedeck generates secure connections to Twitter on 443, but also connections called “tracking.tweetdeck.com” leading to “NGINX” ( http://wiki.nginx.org/Main ), some sort of proxy…
Oh I didn’t mention that I never log in to Tweetdeck itself (ie I don’t use a Tweetdeck account).
edit: I’m just thinking, do you just consider tweetdeck a spying tool because it can connect to several social networks in the same interface ??? (twitter/facebook/myspace) is that the reason?
We know this as a tool to twitter, but it can also be used to keep an eye out on what is being reported about your firm, or to track what your workers are twittering about. For every search term you could set a specific column, like e.g. #avast or @Logos. Through the hashtag # you can look for subjects, with @ for tweets or reactions from/to a certain person TweetDeck can be run easily in the background, without you being disturbed by beeps or popups. You can set these per subject or per person, so you will get an alert whenever there is some action you should know about.
TweetDeck is a handy tool to monitor Twitter, but it also can be used with Facebook, LinkedIn & MySpace (has support for). The program is free. The number of subjects and persons you can give in is unlimited, capito?
edit: I’m just thinking, do you just consider tweetdeck a spying tool because it can connect to several social networks in the same interface (twitter/facebook/myspace) is that the reason?
As a hammer can be used for many purposes, a web application can as well, and "capito? means “understood?”, or “did you understand?” in Italian and Capito is also a genus of birds in the Capitonidae family in South America,
what are you freaking’ talking about Polonus ??? the first sentence of my last post was sent somehow before I finished writing …so here is the whole post:
capito what ??? >>>
edit: I’m just thinking, do you just consider tweetdeck a spying tool because it can connect to several social networks in the same interface (twitter/facebook/myspace) is that the reason?
I’m using it it ;D , and you’re just mentioning things I mentioned myself in my last post here + the use of hash tags can also be used in twitter itself, the use of @ to follow someone as well… I mean this is the whole point of this network, this is how it works. Tweetdeck has just a better interface than twitter itself, allowing multiple simultaneous searches in separate columns while the twitter interface will show everything on a same screen. That’s not enough for me to qualify Tweetdeck a spying tool sorry, even if the multiple columns thing can be handy for watching employees, just more handy, that’s not what it was meant for in the first place you can also use your PC as a hacking platform, doesn’t make all PCs hacking platforms, even if the potential is there. And btw you can open twitter in multiple tabs in a browser and reach some similar results.
One last word, if employees are stupid enough to let their boss know their usernane on twitter then they’re asking for it ;D
Just for a moment I thought we were talking cross purposes, but I genuinely mean that Web 2.0 apps like this and facebook etc. when they can be shared, specifically seen this protest
re: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline
could open up a lot of data you’d rather do not share with your boss or your wife (when she is your boss ;D ), so all you post publicly can be later used against you. And if it should not have been posted, do not post it period.
You look upon this as a social tool and in that respect it is good, but the facebook-timeline link shows that for other parties it is just a way to make money and privacy related issues are becoming less and less prominent. I think youngsters that have grown up with this look upon these issues differently, still it is not my favorite pastime,
I don’t have much respect for social networks in a general way either, Twitter can be a useful tool in a limited number of situations, but that’s not the topic here…and I hate facebook ;D (I really do)