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September 19, 2008 New Facebook Revolution

What went wrong with Facebook? It grew rapidly as a popular site with fun features and cute little widgets that everyone seemed to like1. I, for one, advocated it to as many folks as I could find just short of becoming a Friend Whore2. With the redesign of Facebook (which incidentally, I do actually like), [...]

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September 16, 2008 Sociable Face Recognition

Here is a scary and cool thought depending on how you look at it – sociable face recognition. Imagine taking a photo of someone on your mobile phone and then some nifty bit of software was able to link it up to the right person on a sociable site like Facebook. The technology is there [...]

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September 13, 2008 New Flickr Interface & Analytics

Flickr recently introduced a new Home page for their users before making a big announcement or even just forcing their members to accept it. It is a much better layout than from before with more info on one page about your own photo activity, those of your friend’s photostreams and helpfully exposes you to a [...]

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August 29, 2008 Buyer Be Wary of Terms and Conditions

Certain individuals keen on pointing out the evils of Facebook have pointed me in the direction of their Terms and Conditions of usage. My friend in the UK apparently got banned for advocating out against the service and only after much grovelling, got back into the service (evidently, there was a value to the service). [...]

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August 19, 2008 Twitter Trials

Not less than 24 hours after I decided to give Twitter a go, I find that the great Zen Habits too is experimenting with Twitter. It’s clear and official, great bloggers and minds do think alike. Ahem. This, of course, was shown to me by Trader Eyal in effort to dissuade me from the evils [...]

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