Monthly Archives: November 2007

You Spending Longer In That Chair Stairing At This Screen Has Implications. Big Implications.

If you’re interested in knowing why the writers are on strike in Hollywood *and* try to understand why music sales continue to slump, head over to this interesting graph over at Compete.com which basically suggests we are all spending more and more time in front of our PC’s.
(or Macs.  Come on, you know what I [...]

Now Defanged, Will Facebook’s Beacon Bring Home The Bacon?

Well, its official. Through a variety of efforts, it looks like Facebook has buckled to the perception that folks don’t like their activities being broadcast across the Facebook network. Mr. O’Neill has the details, but it sounds like that rather than automatically publishing stuff I bought, say that Dancing With The Stars Cardio [...]

If Facebook’s Beacon Crumbles, Will That Change Its Evaluation?

Looks like the movement by MoveOn and other privacy groups have really struck a chord with Facebook (Addendum: it looks like a few other organizations, such as Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy are filing motions with the Federal Trade Commission on the basis of privacy violations, which probably has some [...]

When Will Twitter’s Gmail Import Feature Get Updated?

On a lighter note, does anyone else know when Twitter’s invite-through-Gmail process is actually going to get updated?  I understand that Gmail 2.0 (or whatever they’re calling it) with its updated contact management has broken things for Twitter, but jeez — I think its been a few weeks now that I’ve been getting an error [...]

Facebook’s Billion Dollar Evaluation Hinges On Apathy. *Our* Apathy.

Looks like the A-lister brigade is out in force against the opt-in lunacy that is Facebook Beacon. Or, so it would seem, anyway, with Doc Searls, Dave Winer, and Jason Calacanis (and a few others) making some good ol’ impassioned pleas To Do The Right Thing, as this kind of default opt-in status is [...]

Propeller A Good Second Fiddle To Digg?

Allen Stern at CenterNetworks queries how good Propeller (previously “Netscape.com”) is and will be, and crunches some publicly available traffic data to suggest, perhaps, in time it will be a legitimate #2 to Digg as the social news king.
I have to admit that I don’t follow Digg and its clones other social news brethren all [...]

The Power Of Techmeme Over Bloggers is … Pretty Astounding.

In what must be the softest headlining story of the month, Mike Arrington’s story of how Digg users are having a look at a Digg clone called Mixx has made it to the top of Techmeme.
I have nothing to say about this story around Digg / Mixx, except that as a community grows in size, [...]