Today’s event hosted by Microsoft and Facebook highlighted some changes coming to Bing that will factor in your social group opinions, Facebook “Likes”, into your search results. That’s great, and it’s definitely a step in the right direction, but… Just because your FB friends like something doesn’t mean it’s something you would like. Being friends with someone doesn’t necessarily mean you respect their opinion on sushi or books. How about Read More ...
Ok, not really in this instance, but a couple of years ago I wrote a little post on why I give full articles in my feed. I think that, at least for the time it was written, this was a reasonable and logical notion. Things are different now. At the time, RSS was the best thing going. For many of us, it still is. I love RSS and Google Reader Read More ...
And that’s the early IPO date. I may be way out of touch and way off base here (that’s happened before), but does this seem like a smart idea? I mean, FB is white hot right now. Things that are white hot tend to burn out, and that happens especially fast with anything happening online. I think if I had a stake in FB, I’d want the IPO to happen Read More ...
Grilled Cheese Academy – A real education Financial Illiteracy Is Killing Us – Seriously, are there any non-profits focused on teaching financial literacy to kids? I will volunteer to help. Tooth Regeneration Gel Could Replace Painful Fillings – Just ordered up some jelly beans to celebrate this news. Facebook Places vs. Foursquare – Foursquare has a game/awards (kinda). The question with FB places is “why?”. Then again, you could probably Read More ...
Disney Princesses, Deconstructed – All you can really do to fight it is to push a fascination with ocean dwelling killing machines instead of Princesses. But it’s an uphill battle. Muscles Remember Past Glory – I strongly suspect fat bellies have the same memory ability. Thanks No For Skipping Your Immunizations! Whooping CoughIs Back – I wouldn’t let Jenny McCarthy give me dating advice when I was 19. Why would Read More ...
If this passes, hopefully someone with some sense will just install a “switch” in the Oval Office and put a label under it that says “Internet”. It won’t do anything, but that’s ok. The people involved clearly have little understanding of what they’re talking about anyway. We could give Al Gore a lifetime position that requires him to flip the switch when he turns in for the night to cut Read More ...
Lost Finale Heads Into The Light – Newscoma writes some of the best Lost summaries/observations around. I’m going to read this…as soon as I get to watch the finale. How to Tweet Your Way Out of a Job – Hilarious. After Housing Bust, Builders Dust Off the Boom Machine – Demand is demand, even when it is manufactured out of thin air. Build Your Own Backyard Fire Pit – Ain’t Read More ...
I’m really not trying to bully up on Facebook. Really, I’m not. Besides, I’m just one guy, and they have millions of users. But, again, the scariest thing about FB to me is that they just don’t seem competent enough to handle the responsibility of possessing your personal data: “We were recently made aware of one case where if a user takes a specific route on the site, advertisers may Read More ...
Facebook has gone from a very private way to communicate with only the people you want to communicate with, to a firehose of information about you and everyone you kinda-sorta know. @jfloyd pointed out this article earlier today, and it pretty much sums up why I have been changing my relationship with Facebook for a while. Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful Read More ...
NASA Releases First-Ever iPhone Game, Complete With Wiseass Remarks – And to think, it was just the other day I was telling a NASA employee that the private market could do a lot of the same stuff they do and it would be more cost efficient. She threw “we invented velcro” at me. If only she’d known they were releasing this iPhone app, she could have shut my point down Read More ...
9 Studies That the Anti-Vaccination Movement Says Show Links or Bury the Truth – And a few notes on them. I don't understand the Latin parts, but I think the idea here is that these things keep a lot of people from getting really bad diseases, err, alive. iPhone Is Buzz Compatible While Most Android Phones Aren’t – "Currently there is only an estimated 28% of Android devices in use Read More ...
Google Buzz Better group management than Facebook Share photos and videos inline from Picasa and Flickr Reduction of noise of posts you don’t care about (interested to see this one in action) Comments at your inbox instead of going to a site. Suggestions, suggestions, suggestions. Oh, and instant indexing of your Buzz’s–VERY important for bloggers. Unbelievable location based features And still, I think the most potential is in the enterprise. Read More ...
15 Steps to Cultivate Lifelong Learning – Very nice article here. Even though I sort of know all of these things intuitively, I need to be more active in implementing some of them. Cocaine in Space Shuttle Hangar – And no mention of it in the local paper. At least no mention I could find. Interesting Twitter’s Answer To Facebook Connect – I'm pretty close to breaking it off with Read More ...
Twitter’s traffic in trouble? – Scoble has a ton of advice for Twitter. My advice for Twitter: be Twitter and nothing else. Get rid of the 140 character limit? No way! Add comments? No way! Besides, do we really think Twitter could implement all these things without Fail Whaling left and right. Just be Twitter and be good at it, thanks! Lang Wiseman: Vols | Kansas – DISCLAIMER: Lang Wiseman Read More ...
If Big Stupid Tommy ran the Knoxville News-Sentinel – Big Stupid Tommy is a genius. You Drive What? – Proud to be among the first to provide them with some link love. This looks very promising. What Google’s Nexus One means to your organization – I’ve had my Android phone for about two and a half months now. I’d say the model I have isn’t quite on par with the Read More ...
