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Spokeo, or Spooky-o?
Erick over at Techcrunch recently posted a review of the just-relaunched Spokeo, what one might call a web 2.0 aggregator. (Spokeo consequently experienced an onslaught of new registrations, including...
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The Google Reader Debate: What is a “friend”? What is “public”? What is...
Over the holidays, a big debate erupted over a small change made to Google Reader, its web-based feed aggregator. For a good while now, Reader has included two different options for sharing the...
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Who Owns the Social Graph?
One of the big stories in the tech world this week was a showdown between controversial blogger Robert Scoble and Facebook. You can read this article to get a fairly balanced recap of the drama, or...
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The Big Switch
En route to my mailbox from Amazon.com (via my mother as a sort-of late Christmas present… thanks Mom!) is The Big Switch by Nick Carr. A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Carr...
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Breaking: Facebook, Plaxo, and Google Endorse Data Portability
A few days ago I wrote about the data portability debate sparked by the deactivation of Robert Scoble’s Facebook account following his attempt to siphon his social graph data out of that service....
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Politics of the Web
I won’t pretend to be the political expert of this blog. In that regard I most certainly defer to Taylor. But I have been intrigued by the increasing degree to which politics are being practiced and...
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Spare Cycles: Distributing Computing Among Machines and Minds
A few weeks ago I read an article in The Economist about distributed computing, defined by Wikipedia as “a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program are run simultaneously on...
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Are Ads and Subscriptions the Future of Music?
(For more, see my previous post What is the Future of Music?) I’ve been using Last.fm for a while now. It started out as a plug-in for iTunes that recorded the details of the songs you listened to on...
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All your (virtual) base are belong to us!
Which one’s the terrorist? Nick Carr blogs today about concern shown by American intelligence authorities about the security vulnerabilities of increasingly popular virtual worlds such as Second Life....
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Of Mountaintops and Mashups
One of the great things about technology — aside from the geeky awesome gadgets that Taylor and I crush on — is the unprecedented access to information that it gives to the individual. Indeed,...
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Untwisting Twitter
Have you heard of Twitter? If you’ve heard of it, do you know what it is? I wouldn’t be surprised if the answer to one or both of those is “no.” I consider myself a close follower of web...
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Invisibility: A Violation of the Social (Networking) Contract?
The Story Mashable reports that Google introduced an “invisibility” feature into its Gmail version of Google Talk over the weekend. I am very much against this type of feature, and am disappointed...
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Monday Links: March 3rd, 2008
Happy Monday everybody. I can tell already that it’s going to be a double-coffee morning in my office. Peruse these links when you get a chance: This “Extinction Timeline” [warning: PDF file] is one...
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Party Foul: Facebook and “Political Views”
In case you missed it, Facebook changed the default options for the “Political Views” section of user profiles. From the official announcement: “Find the Political Views menu on Facebook a little...
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Blogging Makes You Healthier, Smarter, More Attractive…
Ok, so maybe this study only actually confirms blogging’s positive effect on social health. But my personal, unscientific study confirms the intelligence and attractiveness effects as well. From the...
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Watch What You Put Online… Even If You’re A Prostitute
This has to be a first. I’m sure most of you have at least seen the headlines by now: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been accused of engaging the services of a pricey prostitute service multiple...
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