The wonderful horrible life of Facebook users and their data (or, "data hogs get slaughtered")
Doc has an important post today that reflects on data and privacy. The post comes back to Marc Cantor's "but it's our daaaaaatttttaaaaaa dudeeeeeeeessss riggggggggghhhhttt?!?!?!!!!!!" …
ABC News and Facebook in Joint Effort to Bring Viewers Closer to Political Coverage
Facebook, the popular social networking site, has become a full-fledged platform for communicating, sharing and advertising. ABC News is betting that it will become a platform for political coverage,...
Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review)
I've read two books on it, which explains why I haven't been on Twitter very much in the past week. But the Kindle really bugs me now. I'm hitting all sorts of little things that the Kindle team sim...
Western Digital bills its new RE2-GP drive as the "greenest" ever
In the IT industry, "green" is the new black, and the last twelve months have seen a veritable explosion of green initiatives, green manufacturing, and green products. Exactly which products are the ...
Update: More Leopard Problems Plague Apple
Apple Leopard: From Questionable Customer Service To Questionable OS? — This is something I never thought I'd hear myself say - or maybe I should say, see myself type - about an Apple operating syst...
British iPhone Users Complain Of Serious Reception Problems
British iPhone buyers are in an online uproar over reception problems they're experiencing on the network of O2, Apple's exclusive service provider in England. (No bars for iPhone Brits?) — The iss...
Propeller Update - Up... Up... And Away!
When Propeller launched, everyone had questions about it's ability to survive. Propeller launched in mid-September (let's call it two months ago) and was a shift from the Netscape.com domain. It's s...
Open Letter From TorrentFreak To Brein
Here's what the MPAA has to say about what Brein did: "Piracy is the unauthorized taking, copying or use of copyrighted materials without permission. It is no different from stealing another person's...
Software piracy fight makes enemies
WASHINGTON - Michael Gaertner worried he could lose his company. A group called the Business Software Alliance had written him to claim that his 10-person architectural firm in Galveston, Texas, was ...
Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday
A surge of e-commerce traffic on Thanksgiving night and all day Friday apparently caught several retail giants by surprise, with Lowe's, Macys and Victoria's Secret especially hard hit. — But they w...
DivShare says it's for sale but not dead
DivShare, a site for uploading and sharing video, music, photos, and documents, recently put itself up for sale on a forum that specializes in high-priced domain names. The move drew attention, becau...
Time to write our own rules
So I've been reading Dave Winer, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Jarvis, David Wienberger and Wendy Seltzer, all of whom have problems with what Facebook is doing with its members' data. — Dave in particular ...