Monthly Archives: December 2007

What Is Your Definition Of Privacy?

Seems like there’s a bit of a hubaloo around Google’s recently changed settings with respect to its “Shared” feature function in Google Feed Reader — mainly in that Google decided, a couple of weeks ago, to include a new feature where things that you’ve marked as shared will automatically show up in your friend’s Google [...]

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Google News Comments — Four Months Later, Still Kicking, Dramatically Under-Promoted

So four months after I unbashedly proclaimed that Google News would change the world as we know it (or something like that), the New York Times has done a bit of a pseudo-update on how things have done in the interim.
To say that progress has been “modest” would be a dramatic understatement (cue in Mat [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, blogosphere! Its hard to believe that another year has gone by. I’ll be doing another set of predictions in a few more days that takes a better look back at tech events over the past year, and what might be in store for the year to come.
In the meantime, I hope [...]

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Newsflash: People Are Using IM’s To Game Digg! (Wait — Is This 2006?)

Dave Cohn of NewsAssignment.net, Propeller Scout, sometime-contributor to Wired, AKA “DigiDave”, and all around Social News Dude has written an interesting post about Digg today, with respect to people gaming Digg.  I have to admit I don’t really follow Digg all that closely these days.  But I did more than a year ago … writing [...]

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Pownce Goes Mobile: Squaring Sights On Twitter?

Coming from the metaphorical lips of Kevin Rose himself, Pownce announced its super-alpha mobile version of Pownce today, available for mobile browsing at mobile.pownce.com.  I think this is an interesting development, given that one of the biggest pluses for Twitter has been the ability to message your crowd “off-line”, enabling all kinds of interesting uses, [...]

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Is T-Mobile Shuttering Twitter Actually Dangerous?

Looks like US mobile phone company T-mobile is refusing to allow Twitterers to use its SMS service to Twitter. Its unclear on what grounds other than its an “unauthorized third party”. There are some great comments over at GetSatisfaction (which is something like the ill-begotten socially-networked version of the Consumerist) on the issue, [...]

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Google’s Destruction, Step #1: Populate Search Results With Google Pages

Not merely content with indexing the web in all its forms (and serving applications to help people work online, tell other people where they are in the world and what they’re doing, creating a platform for mobile devices, and … God, is anyone keeping track of this stuff?), Google is now making a run, as [...]

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