Spokeo, or Spooky-o?
Erick over at Techcrunch recently posted a review of the just-relaunched Spokeo, what one might call a web 2.0 aggregator. (Spokeo consequently experienced an onslaught of new registrations, including...
View ArticleThe Google Reader Debate: What is a “friend”? What is “public”? What is...
Over the holidays, a big debate erupted over a small change made to Google Reader, its web-based feed aggregator. For a good while now, Reader has included two different options for sharing the...
View ArticleWho Owns the Social Graph?
One of the big stories in the tech world this week was a showdown between controversial blogger Robert Scoble and Facebook. You can read this article to get a fairly balanced recap of the drama, or...
View ArticleAll your (virtual) base are belong to us!
Which one’s the terrorist? Nick Carr blogs today about concern shown by American intelligence authorities about the security vulnerabilities of increasingly popular virtual worlds such as Second Life....
View ArticleInvisibility: A Violation of the Social (Networking) Contract?
The Story Mashable reports that Google introduced an “invisibility” feature into its Gmail version of Google Talk over the weekend. I am very much against this type of feature, and am disappointed...
View ArticleWill You Put Your Life In Google’s Hands?
It’s been a long time coming and has a ways to go still, but Google Health is on the way. Google confirmed last week that it is testing this new product (click here for a screen shot) with the...
View ArticleWatch What You Put Online… Even If You’re A Prostitute
This has to be a first. I’m sure most of you have at least seen the headlines by now: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has been accused of engaging the services of a pricey prostitute service multiple...
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