Monthly Archives for April 2010
★ Facebook’s evolution: brilliant but borderline
Some more thoughts on the recent Facebook moves, triggered by a good question on Google Buzz by Chris Myles. The F8 announcements are a brilliant move, strategically. Facebook is fully leveraging its core assets (social graph, personal characteristics, attention data) … Continue reading
★ On Granularity and Controlled Distribution of Information
This post is a follow-up to my previous article about Privacy which you may want to read first, On Privacy in a World of Multiple Sunshine Tests. In that post, I explained how increased transparency online would make our daily … Continue reading
★ On Privacy in a World of Multiple Sunshine Tests
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in December: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place, but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is … Continue reading
★ Computing for everyone and why geeks hate the iPad
This whole controversy about the iPhone/iPad being an evil, closed system has lasted long enough. As my friend @fdepasse put it really well: My prediction for the whole iPhone OS controversy: non-geek users won’t give a damn. And so should … Continue reading