Thoughts about privacy and social networks
How social networks impact privacy and influence our lives
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A better facebook interface
One of the problems for Facebook’s interface is that people post at an unequal rate. Those who post a hundred messages a day drown out those who post just occasionally, and this happens despite attempts to balance things. A solution … Continue reading →
Tagging would fix Twitter and make it more useful
Nova Spivack likes to differentiate interest networks, like Twine, from social networks like Facebook. The problem is that people also use social networks to follow their interests, especially as in the case of Twitter. The result is that if we … Continue reading →
Confused by all my networks
I admit to testing tools just for the fun of it; so I find myself hovering between a dozen different networks, without much commitment to any of them. Some of these I treat as news sources. Facebook is the only … Continue reading →
On news feeds and link sharing
Lately I have tried to become more systematic in the way I use and process the vast amount of information that is available on the web. I realized some time ago that it isn’t enough to rely on chance and … Continue reading →
Social network relay tag
If you are a member of a number of social networks and don’t want to manually update all of them, you start looking for a workflow that will enable cross-postings or relay of information, in order to reach these various … Continue reading →
When betas kick the bucket
Richard Stallman recently railed against “cloud computing”. The Guardian’s Jack Schofield also warns against its dangers: “Look, if you have data online, you can lose access to it at any second, through hacking, an idle whim, a simple mistake, or … Continue reading →
Social Networking
On the advice of Joanna (who thought it could be useful for Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam), I signed up for Facebook. My only previous experience with social networking was with social bookmarking (delicious and ma.gnolia), which I related to … Continue reading →