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 →
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 →
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.
Continue reading →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 →
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 →
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 →
“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 →
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 →
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 →
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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