I learned a good lesson yesterday: when writing about something as contentious and hot-button as online privacy, don’t just dash something off in under 30 minutes. Though I stand by my original thesis, it was clear that I didn’t explain said thesis very well.
It hit me like a lightening bolt last night [...]
Continue Reading →Anybody got a pen? Someone should mark this in the calendar as the day I agreed with Michael Arrington. Though he approaches it with his usual deft touch (‘Mice nuts,’ anyone?), he hits the nail squarely on the head regarding online privacy.
A quick re-cap of how we got here: you may [...]
Continue Reading →Mine was beige, with flowers. Which, as the evening wore on, proved to be one of the more boring updates. (I especially loved the person who asked, “Why is everyone posting synonyms for tan in their status?”) But what occurred on Facebook last night and this morning was, in my opinion, pretty amazing. A meme [...]
Continue Reading →The Vortex is our bastard child here at The Guidewire, always changing names and directions and never quite knowing where it belongs. The heavy focus on the foibles of the technosphere – its most recent iteration – grew tiresome. The industry seems to be growing up again, and the little boys that ran around marking [...]
Continue Reading →Mr. Hyde it is. Dr. Jekyll was always the boring one, don’t you agree?
News from the Social Media Vortex
–The technosphere was thrown into a tizzy (no really, they were) over the news that Facebook will include @mentions in your status updates. It’s being spun as an !attack [...]
Continue Reading →Perhaps it’s the end-of-summer quiet but there wasn’t a lot of technosphere silliness this week – just actual news! Don’t get too comfortable; September is just around the corner.
News from the Social Media Vortex
–It’s America’s Funniest Home Videos for the 21st century. YouTube is now giving revenue share to uploaders [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve been awash in home-selling negotiations this week so I’m particularly cranky. You’ve been warned.
News from the Social Media Vortex
–As you’re well aware by now, Facebook acquired FriendFeed this week. Allow me to couch that: you’re well aware of this news only if you live in your browser. For those who frequent FriendFeed, [...]
Continue Reading →News from the Social Media Vortex
–Someone broke the Interwebs yesterday morning, with a denial-of-service attack hitting Twitter, Facebook, Google, and LiveJournal. Twitter was the hardest hit (or the worst prepared), with the service going completely offline for a couple of hours. [And as of this writing, the site was Continue Reading →
