1 month ago
wearehugh : Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tags » Scrabbling for Legal Rationalism: No Copyright for Games
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2 month ago
Linkorama : The flip side to a Facebook crackdown - 39% of workers aged between 18-24 would consider quitting their jobs if their employer put a full ban on social networking sites - and 80% of the 1,000 surveyed do access such sites at work.
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2 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott: OH HEY HOW YA DOING - "Since the thing is a security nightmare, it might as well be a complete and total nightmare, like the ones where you wake up and then find out you haven't actually woken up"
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2 month ago
Linkorama : Facebook Eyes Enterprise Market - Instead of worrying about employees spending company time on Facebook, some enterprises may soon have reason to encourage the idea.
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3 month ago
Rod Begbie : Social Networking Wars // Current - I hadn't seen the "Super News" animations before starting working here, but they can be pretty good -- and this one is excellently geeky. #
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Legitimised? - “Social interaction often precedes economic activity.”
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere - This kind of social intelligence can be applied across many services on the open web. Better yet, if there is no pressure to make a business out of it, it can remain intimate and discreet.
factoryjoe : Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com - Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: facebook, social networks, bebo, aol
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5 month ago
philgyford : Lunch over IP: What social networking site is popular where - A map and charts showing relative popularity of Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, etc in different continents. Amazing how much it varies. (via ChrisDodo)
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5 month ago
plasticbag : Kellan points out some of our interesting choices on Fire Eagle. The things he points out are spot on... - I really think is worth talking about why we didn't do a social network. Lots of services manage the social graph and Fire Eagle can be hybridised with all of them. Why would we make the effort?
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nelson : Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook - Google executive leaves for Facebook
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plasticbag : Susan Kare, the woman who developed the original icons for the Mac, is currently producing tiny pixel gifts for Facebook... - Honestly, I find this story sort of depressing. It seems like a waste.
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deusx : Ajaxian » Facebook Style Input Box - "If you used Facebook on a regularly basis, you’ve probably come across their cool autocomplete method of adding multiple recipients to messages."
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Linkorama : PicLens | Immersive Slideshows Across the Web - PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Photos will come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. With PicLens, browsing a
joshua : PicLens | Immersive Views Across the Web
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6 month ago
deusx : HelloTxt - Home - "HelloTxt is an aggregate of microblogging services through which the user can insert their messages on all main microblogging services in a simply and simultaneous way."
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6 month ago
Linkorama : “Interesting, but of no commercial value” - There are many people who criticise social media tools because they perceive them as ways to waste time; these criticisms in turn enter the consciousness of large enterprises and form part of enterprise immune systems, ably and effectively shutting out th
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6 month ago
nelson : Facebook financials - Reported to be from Zuckerberg himself. Nasty leak.
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Capillaries can carry compressed context | confused of calcutta - We’re not dealing with firehoses any more. We’re dealing with capillaries, as I discussed in my post yesterday. And these capillaries carry and distribute information nutrients, and process and eject information waste and toxins. The real power of all
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Books That Make You Dumb - Virgil correlates favorite books to SAT scores per college to find smart/dumb books; don't miss the FAQ [via]
Rod Begbie : Booksthatmakeyoudumb - Comparing SAT scores with colleges' most popular books according to Facebook. Guess where the Bible ends up on that scale... [via] #
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7 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : "With friends like these…" - Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of Facebook's backers. (Via Bronwyn.) ∞ [via]
philgyford : With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian - Yes, all very well, but I'm guessing Hodgkinson hasn't analysed the beliefs of the bosses of every company he has any interaction with, only the most attention-grabbing.
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7 month ago
Rod Begbie : Techdirt: Hasbro Sues Scrabulous For Being Too Scrabble-ish - This could be interesting to watch -- In my social network, Scrabulous is *the* killer Facebook app. If it were to disappear, would it hurt Facebook? #
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7 month ago
deusx : Rational Survivability: Horrific Facebook Breach! - "No more Romanian Turtle Wedgies."
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7 month ago
gleuschk : If all your friends jumped off of a bridge… at Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar - I don’t want the Internet to be the bastard child of basic cable and Walmart.
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8 month ago
nelson : Facebook in 50 years - "You just got poked with a walking stick, poke back?"
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philgyford : Facebook | My Privacy - The page for opting out of Facebook's Beacon "feature" that tells people what you've been buying on other sites.
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8 month ago
Linkorama : Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy - Facebook is collecting information about user actions on affiliate sites regardless of whether or not the user chose to opt out, and regardless of whether or not the user is logged into Facebook at that time. The evidence I present below directly contrad
Rod Begbie : Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in. - CA Security Advisor Research Blog - CA - Even if you're using Facebook's privacy settings to opt-out of their new "Beacon" "service", the info is still getting sent to Facebook who may or may not be gathering it. Thank gawd for Adblock. [via] #
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