remember this (if you can)
My Head is in the CloudNow, after a few years of this, I realize that when I look up from the screen I know almost nothing.
public-to-anyone by default
WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy FlawRelated (2/11/10): Simon Willison: "This means users of Buzz may inadvertently reveal their most frequent contacts, which is an issue for people like journalists with anonymous sources, unhappy employees seeking new work or even people having e-mail based affairs."
which comes first
Excessive internet use is linked to depressionOur research indicates that excessive internet use is associated with depression, but what we don't know is which comes first - are depressed people drawn to the internet or does the internet cause depression?
collaborative 'interest network'
pearltreesNote: This is not an endorsement. Review of Terms of Use is recommended.
'harvest the conversations'
convoflow – "Search through social media for more meaningful and relevant results in real time." [eHub]Is your data safe?
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, millions of accounts exploitable[Simon Willison's Weblog]Facebook and MySpace fixed this quickly after being notified...
'not clever'
Alienatr - another stupid social, web 2.0 website with a missing vowel in the title. [The Letter]'silent crowds'
Twitter hype punctured by studyMicro-blogging service Twitter remains the preserve of a few, despite the hype surrounding it, according to research.
Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found.
'impersonal and irrelevant'
Zach Klein: "I liked the Internet better when it was nebulous, and now I’m depressed that it shaping up to be a social pyramid."UK government is watching... (2)
Plan to monitor all internet useThe new system would track all e-mails, phone calls and internet use, including visits to social network sites.
Related post: UK government is watching you!
the long fail
A ProblemYou know you have a problem when Twitter is down, so you try to tweet that Twitter is down, but you can’t tweet that Twitter is down because Twitter is down.
UK government is watching you!
Social network sites 'monitored' – "It is part of a plan to store details of all phone calls, e-mails and websites visited on a central database..."'resisting the temptation'
NegativityIt’s incredibly hard to ignore the toxic whirlwinds of negativity that crop up all the time in online communities...
unbelievably true
Twitter whoring goes mainstreamTwitter is an opt-in communications channel. People who follow John Mayer do so because they are interested in him or his music. If they were interested in Campbell’s Soup, they would have subscribed to a Campbell’s feed (if they actually have one). The message from Campbell’s was commercial in nature and unsolicited. And that equals spam.
the 'friendly' world of social media
"Twitoria finds your friends that haven't tweeted in a long time so you can give them the boot!"just so you know...
Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."
Related:
Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter
Related Update (2/18/09):
Update on Terms | Facebook
He's got a point...
BeatingAddiction - fight social network addiction through social networking? Come on now dammit!!!!don't click
Facebook users hit by virus – "The virus tricks users by telling them they're in a video..."answers on postcards - 'slow twitter'
dawdlr – "a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?"'modern self-portraits'
Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism...Social networking websites may make relationships more reliable, but whether those relationships can be humanly satisfying remains to be seen.[Justin Blanton]
