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In 24 Hours, I exit Facebook.

April 29, 2010

In a nutshell, I’m not interested in the Facebook experience. I understand it. I’ve been there. It is AOL, and I wasn’t impressed by AOL then, nor now. I don’t want to surf the web and everything I do, say, and experience is Facebook data. Processed, filtered, monitored, and integrated with associates [friends] who I’ve [...]

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Before the Ink is Dry

April 22, 2010

Ezra Klein has an interesting article on the WP today. You should stop by and read it. The title of this post is taken from a statement by Dodd about the whole financial restructuring mess the US finds itself in. And something I’ve been saying since I started paying attention to the world around me [...]

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Facebook is the 21st Century AOL

April 22, 2010

Today has been pretty special for Facebook. Their f8 developer conference, the third of its kind, showed how big they want to be. With 500 million or so residents, the site is pretty big. The openness of its users is amazing in this day and age of identity theft, and the CEO declaring that privacy [...]

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Why Apple Should Not Sue Gawker Media

April 21, 2010

Yesterday, Jeff Bercovici of DailyFinance.com wrote that, in essence, Apple should sue Gawker over the “lost” iPhone. Everyone puts lost in quotes when relating this story to people because the SarcMark is too obvious. Of course, I’m a big fan of the Interrobang‽ Anyway… I don’t think that Apple should sue Gawker. It would be [...]

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Cognitive Dissonance, again.

April 20, 2010

I’m stuck. I really don’t know what to think of this whole Gizmodo-revealing-the-iPhone-prototype thing. Great marketing for the iPhone to the nerd crowd. I love the design. But Gizmodo outing the person who lost the phone and this feigned allegiance [in my opinion] to the tech that lost the phone is making a bad name [...]

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Why Facebook and Social Networks are Massive Ethical Dilemmas

March 27, 2010

If you are user of Facebook, you have undoubtedly been hit by changes to the privacy policy over the services existence. One such change is that you really aren’t in control of your information. Coupled with the fact that Facebook and Facebook Friendly sites use “Facebook Connect” and you have the sharing of information or [...]

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Monoprice.com Update

March 19, 2010

After policing their site for penetrations and weaknesses, it appears that Monoprice had decided to open up shop again by going through PayPal.com, which isn’t a good proposition for a budget minded business to operate under. I wasn’t expecting them to stay with that as the primary option, and Monoprice updated their front page: We [...]

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Comcast says it is pleased to announce its Usage Meter

March 17, 2010

I got this in my inbox today (I’ve been waiting for it too, still not happy): Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer, We are pleased to announce the pilot launch of the Comcast Usage Meter in your area. This new feature is available to Comcast High-Speed Internet customers and provides an easy way to check total [...]

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Monoprice, public disclosure in real time.

March 14, 2010

Apparently Monoprice.com, a great place to get discount goods to fulfill your geekiness requirements, has gotten into a bit of a fix. Something happened that made people give notice to Monoprice. A ripple in the force I suppose. Some people were wondering about odd charges on their credit cards, and somehow linked it to Monoprice.com. [...]

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Why does a USB charger have access to anything at all? Energizer, please explain.

March 8, 2010

So, TIL [Today I Learned], that a USB charger by Energizer has, for the last two years, had a back door open. According to CERT and this MarketWatch announcement. Which charger? The one below. These are the reasons why I have no problem with Apple dictating what can and can’t be on its own systems. [...]

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People Upset Over Fake Core i7 Blame Newegg instead of Counterfeiters

March 8, 2010

I used to have a sign in my office that read: Quality Speed Low Cost Pick Two. It reminded people that although you can get something quickly at a cost, it won’t be cheap. But if you want something cheap and fast, it won’t be the highest quality possible, and if you want something low [...]

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Desktop Computers Stop in their Tracks, Make a Right Turn.

March 4, 2010

I’ve been saying for a year or so now, that the PC Desktop market is going to dry up soon and everything will switch to a mobile computing platform of one kind or another. That is why I have UMPCfan.com and TABLETfan.com which are other projects in my 100 in 1 Year master project. You [...]

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Big Brother Comes Home

February 18, 2010

An interesting article on BoingBoing yesterday titled “School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home”. What appears to have happened is this; Laptops were given to students of the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania. Those laptops had webcams in the bezel as laptops today normally do. But these laptops [...]

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Google Advertises Competition on Business Place Pages

February 6, 2010

Matt McGee over at Search Engine Land commented about the fact that Google advertises competition on a business’ Place page. Now, you may think that your business place page is your own, to provide information and for feedback to come back for those hardy enough to care to comment on something as massive as a [...]

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TechCrunch Intern Kerfuffle Highlights Importance of Ethics and Tech

February 5, 2010

If you read the comments, which come from a surprising amount of people with vanity domains and from people using their real names, you’ll notice that people may be suspecting pretty much every review of a business because one person decided to take more than their wage in compensation for said review. Bias is a [...]

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