Category: internet
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Some thoughts on the potential Twitter exodus
A friend has abandoned Twitter. He is pretty early, but I suspect he is at the front of a potentially huge geek wave. I know what it is like to leave a platform. It can be tough, but there are a plethora of communication tools for the Internet. I moved to Twitter as my main…
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Steven B Johnson’s new book on the internet and politics
I have read a number of his works, including Emergence: And so, over time, a book I had written about social insects and video games and software algorithms started to feel more and more like a book about politics… I look forward to this book and hope it goes beyond the aspect of political organization…
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Instantbight.com: Interview with Chad Kohalyk…
Check out the smoking desktop he designed! See my interview of instantbight.com Instantbight.com: Interview with Chad Kohalyk…
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Profile of a hustler: Instantbight.com
David Silverman is the blogger behind instantbight.com, popularized recently for his simple 5 Question Interviews of technorati. Looking at the list you might recognize some people that I mention from time to time: Horace Dediu, Craig Mod, Ethan Marcotte and Dan Adams for example. David has been publishing these short interviews about one a day…
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Replacing Flickr
Chad on www.flickr.com Yahoo’s lack of innovation is one thing, but what really drives me bonkers about Flickr is the terrible video support. Maybe 1 in 10 of my video uploads are successful. I take a lot of short vids on my iPhone and even on my 60D I think they should be viewed within…
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Social Network Audit
After posting my Google+ rant on Google+ I thought more about what kinds of social networking services I use, and how many I have abandoned in the past. I put them all together in the graphic above, separated into three groups (from top to bottom): Currently using (frequency from Left to Right); Infrastructure and Deadpool.…
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My Google+ rant on Google+
My Google+ rant on Google+
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What if the phone company gave you free unlimited phone calls but they could record, monitor and sell your phone calls and information about what you said on them. Anil Dash in a conversation about How do blogs need to evolve?. This is such as great analogy for — ahem — certain free Internet services.
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Warner Bros: You are doing it wrong
The wife got me the Harry Potter: The Complete 8-Film Collection boxed (17 discs) set for our anniversary. Yes, well, she got me Lord of the Rings for another anniversary, so it is already well established that she married a total geek. Besides, it is a great present and I hope to enjoy all of…