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Social network afterthoughts

Vikshepa Posted on October 5, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

Social networks have been for me an interesting experiment, but finally, I think I prefer keeping my thoughts to my blog. Perhaps if Facebook would have a setting to place information only on the profile page and not in the … Continue reading →

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Budding open source alternatives to Facebook

Vikshepa Posted on September 20, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

A few days ago Diaspora, the venture by four programmers to build an opensource, federated social network that would compete with Facebook, released its code to developers, having reached a phase where minimal implementation was already possible. The group promised, … Continue reading →

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Data portability policy concept announced

Vikshepa Posted on July 5, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

The Data Portability Project have come up with the idea of a data portability policy, using the metaphor of the privacy policy which most companies now use.

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social media dieting

Vikshepa Posted on June 21, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

I don’t know if other people suffer the angst of overchoice and hard decisions about the social media services they will use. There are so many tempting choices, from Posterous, to Buzz, to Twitter, to (of course) Facebook – not … Continue reading →

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Twine and the ephemeral nature of web services

Vikshepa Posted on May 15, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

Twine – another web service that I used for a while – has been closed by its purchaser, Evri. Web-services are fine to use, as long as we don’t become dependent on them. Meanwhile, Sarah Perez says on Buzz that … Continue reading →

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Dropping out of Facebook

Vikshepa Posted on May 8, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

I’m cutting down on my interaction via my personal profile on Facebook. Earlier today I unsubscribed from all the groups, blanked my profile except for contact information and stopped Twitterfeed from posting there. I’ll continue to read status updates of … Continue reading →

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Google finally acknowledge a weakness I’d noticed in Buzz’s privacy system

Vikshepa Posted on April 9, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

“People you follow will see that you are following them and may display their followers on their public profile.” That means that regardless of how you arrange your privacy settings, you will be visible to the Buzzosphere. Since your profile … Continue reading →

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A new friend

Vikshepa Posted on March 31, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

I have just accepted a friends request from a 29 year old Indonesian taxi driver. All I know about him is that if he won a million dollars he would travel to California. If I win a million dollars I … Continue reading →

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Still playing with Twitterfeed

Vikshepa Posted on March 29, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

So, my Twitterfeed strategy – once I have it working as I want – is to move the majority of my network activity to my blog on WordPress, and just every few hours to allow a post to go through … Continue reading →

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I’m testing Twitterfeed, an application…

Vikshepa Posted on March 29, 2010 by authorNovember 2, 2025

I’m testing Twitterfeed, an application that sends an RSS news feed from a blog to social networks like Twitter, Identi.ca and Facebook.

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