May 7, 2010
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I’m not ready to give up on Facebook yet, like my friend Jason Perlow, but I can understand why he’s sick to death of it. The simple truth is that Facebook takes lousy care of your personal information and is … Continue reading
February 18, 2010
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A recent Washington Post story observed that Twitter loves open source. Twitter’s not the only ones. Most, if not all, social networks are built on top of Linux and open-source software. When the writer wrote that Twitter loves open source … Continue reading
January 7, 2010
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I’m on a social network; you’re on a social network, these days it seems we’re all on at least one social network–like Facebook, Twitter, etc. etc–if not two, three, or even more. To be exact, the Pew Internet & American … Continue reading
August 10, 2009
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After last week’s near-collapse of the social networks, such as Twitter, due to a Windows-based, botnet DDoS attack, I made a modest proposal: Throw Windows off the Internet. Here’s how we can do it. Or, at the very least, force … Continue reading
August 6, 2009
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The morning ritual: Get your cup of coffee, open up your e-mail, switch your Web browser to Twitter… ARGH! That was how the morning went for many people when they turned to Twitter only to find that the wildly popular … Continue reading
July 5, 2009
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If you were lucky enough, as I was, to go to a technically-advanced school or work for a high-technology company in the 70s and 80s, you had Internet access. For most of us though the only way we had to … Continue reading