Archive for May 16th, 2008

Comment on Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden by

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Mike is right. Facebook, Google and MySpace aren’t there to protect your privacy. They are fighting a battle over who gets to own you and your data. I think that this network thinking is fundamentally flawed.

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Comment on ON THE RECORD VOTE!! VOTE NOW!! by Enough !!

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Enough about a stupid woman who leaves her kids and goes off on a cruise. She has a relationship with some guy that is not a marriage and sets a bad example for her kids. She goes out on the balcony with drugs and alcohol and jumps

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Comment on Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden by Robert

Friday, May 16th, 2008

>When I give you a piece of data like an email address, there is an assumption of how you will use it ie email me. If for example I am on Facebook but hate Google for some reason, you should respect the fact that I do not want my data

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Comment on When Crowdsourcing Fails: Cambrian House Headed to the

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Quite the controversy was caused by this week’s pronouncement by TechCrunch that Cambrian House is deadpooled (additional coverage here and here). It’s not obvious what’s going on right now… […]

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Comment on 2007 Weblog Poll Closes Nov 8 by Kingston

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Well I found it the most long post with a heated debate. After reading your whole post and comment now I think to again commence this hot discussion but to be frank very confused with where to start, still its very informative and

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Comment on Blaine Cook Joins Today’s Gillmor Gang, Talks Twitter

Friday, May 16th, 2008

When I interviewed Twitter in July of 2007 they had a handful of employees almost all of whom were techie types. You can watch my interview by clicking my name on this post.

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Comment on Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo) by Link-Fest for

Friday, May 16th, 2008

[…] noticed that Yahoo’s search results were flagging Google as a Malware site. It turned out to be a mistake, but it was funny while it lasted. On the subject of TechCrunch, […]

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Comment on Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden by Adam

Friday, May 16th, 2008

This is why even on social networks I collect my own data. Then you can use the social network for what it is for. So what that I have 50K friends on a site? My goal is to get all 50K to subscribe to my RSS feed and opt in to my

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Comment on Dear Yahoo: You’re Fired by Kyro Interactive » Yahoo

Friday, May 16th, 2008

In a letter to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, Icahn alleged the board “acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and Microsoft,” and proposed an alternate board that includes Marc Cuban, Adam Dell and himself.

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Comment on Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden by Richard

Friday, May 16th, 2008

I with Robert on this one, if you give your email, photos etc. to someone you can hope/ask they don’t give it to others or (re-)publish it but they might not do what you want - but you have no control about what happens next.

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