For quite some time, Facebook has had a comments plugin for blogs, but it was not used very much. Today, they announced a new version of the comment system that is already being adopted by some large sites. Obviously, this has lots of the big tech blogs talking. ReadWriteWeb specifically remarked about the missing “bells [...]

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Data, context and analysis has come up a lot lately. I talked about data and context about a month ago when people were arguing about JSON vs. XML. The problem at that time was that people were comparing data formats instead of potential usage: As with any programming problem, different requirements and different contexts may [...]

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Given that Christmas is a gift giving occasion, and that AppleTV and GoogleTV have been hot topics prior to this holiday season, it only makes sense that these video offerings appear in the news again. There are lots of questions regarding these types of technologies, and I will get to some of that later. First, [...]

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As the year comes to a close, it is time to reflect on what happened in the past year and what will come in the next year. Conveniently, I wrote a 2010 predictions post last year, so I can easily review how accurate those predictions were: Many tablets are released to much fanfare, and people [...]

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I have been thinking about personal profiles or personal branding on the web for a while. This is partially due to the fact that people may know the blog but not know the person behind the blog. With the various social media sites, there is confusion on who is only sharing an article and who [...]

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