I wrote a commentary for Media Bullseye last week questioning whether the Writer’s Guild of America would win out in the battle of public opinion. As a bit of a known TV and movie nut, I’ve been hearing from various friends and acquaintances who are fed up with their favorite shows going off the air [...]
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Tubes is gone. I heard about them at DEMO last September and wrote about them when I had a need for what they were offering. But alas, the service is ceasing. I received the following email last night: The Tubes service will be going away as of Jan 31, 2008. Any data/files you have on [...]
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A while ago I posted a review on TripAdvisor.com of Bianchi’s Pizza , a Revere Beach institution that I feel strongly about. I think they have the best pizza I’ve ever had. Being a big-mouthed "evangelist" I decided to review Bianchi’s. Well, just a few minutes ago I got an email from Trip Advisor: [...]
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Xonbi is Inbox backwards, and they’re in public beta. They also have an excellent, creative way to spread awareness of their brand. But first, what’s xobni? Well, it’s an email plugin. Not very sexy right? I mean, email has been around for, well, a long time. So any claim to having an innovative product around [...]
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From My Big Filebox Marked “Howdy, Capt. Obvious, how’re things? How much does the source of content play into how seriously we take it? Is it always important for a communicator to “look the part?” This seems like a simple question (the answer to which is “duh!”), but it’s one that has been rattling around [...]
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@duncanriley said he was working on a big post last night, and this is it. Via techcrunch: After publishing an invitation to Facebook to join the DataPortability Working Group January 4, we never thought that Facebook would accept it. Today changes everything you’ve ever thought about social-networking data and lock-in before, because today Facebook, Google [...]
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Chris Saad has a great article entitled "Top 3 Privacy issues for DataPortability on Social Networks" on the core issues at the center of the data portability debate. Asked for his top 3 concerns for privacy on social networks, Saad answered: Perception Control Language Chris’ second answer was the one that stuck with me. In [...]
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Thanks to fellow blogstringer Sarah Wurrey, my article on Sociological Networking and Object-centered sociality is now on Media Bullseye.
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Just a quick update: Scoble was testing an upcoming feature of Plaxo Pulse that imports friend data from facebook into Plaxo. What’s strange is that facebook allows you to search your Yahoo, Hotmail, gmail and IM accounts to find contacts, but they do not allow other applications to do the same. I mean, I guess [...]
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Facebook deleted Robert Scoble’s profile because he was running an automated script to export his contacts. This is today’s big story…….or is it? The real story here is data portability. It’s an issue that has been bubbling up under the surface with the rise of social networking. When you spend the time creating a network [...]
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