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...
View ArticleBreaking: 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....
View Article“Monday” Links: January 23, 2008
Faithful readers–all apologies. With the long weekend and my slow return to West Blogistan, I regret that my Monday links are…well…a few days late. But wouldn’t you LOVE some links with that Wednesday,...
View ArticleInvisibility: 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...
View ArticleParty 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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