With the recent Facebook announcements, the Google Buzz launch debacle and the Blippy credit card mess, Privacy is being constantly talked about. If you look at those three events, we have three very different definitions of privacy. Blippy’s issue was thankfully limited to a handful of credit card numbers. However, when your credit card number… Read More Privacy On The Internet Is Misunderstood
Three companies have been making changes to the way people use the web. I am not talking about mobile devices as they still use the same basic internet that desktops and laptops use. I am talking about Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Each of these companies is trying to own something in the future infrastructure of… Read More The Web Is Finally Evolving To A More Semantic Future
We all know that Facebook‘s F8 conference was just yesterday, but the information on what was changing (see here, here, and here) started leaking almost a month ago. People new about the like button and the potential currency news. To get an idea of how much Facebook announced, take a look at the live blog… Read More Facebook Is Now The Infrastructure For A Social Real-Time Web
When the Mashable post on social media traffic was published, I read it without much surprise. Facebook is huge and getting huger. Then I saw the same charts on another blog, and then another. That last time I noticed something hidden in the charts. My first thought was that the data must be flawed in… Read More Is LinkedIn Really Growing Faster Than Twitter?
Twitter has been on the minds of bloggers again. It started with Fred Wilson telling developers to do more than fill holes in Twitter. I’ve been thinking a lot about the Twitter Platform and Ecosystem recently. I think it is at an inflection point, much like the desktop software and hardware business was in the… Read More Stop Complaining, Twitter Just Proved Your Exit Strategy
People have been complaining about Facebook and their privacy changes for what seems like an eternity. Recent developments have shown that this is all part of Facebook’s plan for world domination. Besides the various privacy policy changes, they have recently decided to share your profile with selected third party sites. Louis Gray posed an interesting… Read More Facebook’s Plan For World Domination
Some recent events in the past few weeks have had me thinking about how we develop software, specifically software that deals with social sites. The release of Google Buzz has raised various privacy concerns from people. I am not as worried about privacy, as those issues tend to get resolved fairly quickly. The problem that… Read More Simplification, Implicit Behaviour and Explicit Opt In
As we continue to publish about our lives on social networks and other social services like Foursquare or Gowalla, the question about how this affects a job search will continue to appear. A recent blog post comes from Allen Stern of CenterNetworks that specifically talks about social location or check-in services. Again, the issue of… Read More Your Life Online Could Affect Your Job Search
This past week showed me something very interesting. Mainstream users work with the internet in a completely different manner than early adopters. As an example, read the comments on this ReadWriteWeb post. By now, you have heard about this comment stream and how some users thought the Facebook Connect integration on ReadWriteWeb was the Facebook… Read More How Simple Must You Make Your Design?
The battle for your attention is heating up. Facebook and Google are always in the news, but some interesting news recently shows how competitive these companies are going to get. Several months ago I wrote about this collision course the two companies are on: Facebook is trying to get closer to a real email client… Read More Facebook And Google On A Collision Course
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