BurningbirdI watched with some interest the fooflah about Facebook’s Beacon. On the one hand, I think the application serves a useful purpose–it provides a dose of reality for those who have been extolling the virtues of the ‘social graph’ in all dewey eyed innocence. It’s hard to ignore that purchase of Depends showing up for all your […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I must seem like I’m filled with disdain for Twitter, Facebook, or any of these other jewels of social graphing, or whatever it’s called this week. However, I really don’t have anything against the tools, as much as I can’t stand the hyperbole. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with […]
Jeneane Sessum was interviewed for ComputerWorld for the problems with missing GMail email. I find it fascinating when Google is asked about any problem with its services, it always states it can’t respond fully because of ‘privacy’ concerns. I don’t use GMail or Yahoo mail or any centralized email service for my email, primarily because, as […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The New York Times has an article about an incident that happened some time back: A young man Twitters he’s going to commit suicide. The article features our old friend, ambient intimacy. It also features quotes by yours truly, and about half a dozen other folks you probably know. I was a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The world is happily building away their new vision of a utopia based on social networking and an open OpenSocial API, which is going to link just everything together. Perhaps the world will read the terms of use of the API, and realize this is not an open API; this is a free […]