Posted in Social Networking on Jan 7th, 2008
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 his […]
Posted in Social Networking, Uncategorized on Dec 5th, 2007
By now, you’re probably sick of hearing about the Facebook Beacon debacle. Over the past few weeks since its controversial launch, we’ve heard the outcry and backlash from privacy gurus, social media moguls and the industry at large. Much of the uproar has circled around behavioral targeting and how it bleeds over into the world […]
Posted in Social Networking on Dec 4th, 2007
Note: As the official blog post pest here at matchmine, I sent out an all-internal email yesterday trying to generate new post ideas. An employee sent me the following post and asked to remain nameless (and since we’re all about anonymity here at matchmine, I couldn’t really argue with that). I absolutely loved the post, […]
Posted in Social Networking on Oct 20th, 2007
Boston is known for a lot of things. There was a little incident with Tea. A bit of a tussle with the Brits. Most recently, Boston has become a dominant force in the sporting world (at least in baseball and football). But after last night I am convinced that Boston is the place to be […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Social Networking on Aug 31st, 2007
In his Data Mining blog, Mathew Hurst posted a simple and elegant Gedanken exercise of traffic drivers to specific content from various sites. Based on the readership and interests of their audiences, he points out some clear ideas related to the differences between “popularity” and “authority”.
What I’m describing … is the difference between some […]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Social Networking, Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2007
Take one part Guitar Hero 2 Tournament. Add free beer. Sprinkle in a little SDK preview. Add more beer. Then add a few hundred of the best Flex developers on the planet.
Throw this all together and you get the 360Flex conference in Seattle this week.
I just got back from an incredibly fun and educational […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Media Delivery, Random Thoughts, Social Networking on Aug 8th, 2007
I think it’s an almost universally accepted fact that people are sick of the term Web 2.0. It’s one of those buzzwords that has been co-opted to fit just about anything new online in the last couple of years. It reminds me of the feeling you get when you say a word 100 times out […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Human Factors, Social Networking on Aug 7th, 2007
“Hey, I know you!”
Isn’t that what we all want? To be known and appreciated for what makes us us.
In this age of online communities, where we float in cyberspace, detached from our physical selves, we get to know each other from the inside out. I have friends in England, New Zealand, Spain, Argentina - all […]
Posted in Media Delivery, Random Thoughts, Social Networking on Jul 30th, 2007
I was lucky enough to score two ticket to The Police Reunion Tour at Fenway Park last night. It was one of those typical sticky summer nights here in Boston where the air doesn’t seem to move and a killer storm is imminent. Well, the breeze kicked in after the first set and the rain […]
Posted in Social Networking on Jun 7th, 2007
Great post here on Google, from good friend and fellow Quber Rob Demillo. Before commentary on DClick, Web History, StreetView and now Personalized Mobile Search, Rob says:
anyone else getting weirded out by Google’s slow encroachment on privacy?
Uh… yea. You can also throw in Google Desktop, where Sergey and friends will do you the favor of […]
