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Nobody is going onto slashdot and discussing operational information.
OTOH, it's really easy to go onto MyTwitBook and casually mention
where you are or where you're going and what you're doing there.

It's not 'MyTwitBook' anymore, youTwitFace! ;)

You can solve that with this tweeting dog collar.

-Randy

PS: I can see it now...

My pit bull: When's dinner? (2 minutes ago)

My pit bull: That was yummy (6 minutes ago)

My pit bull: munch, munch (6 minutes ago)

My pit bull: woof, Woof, WOOF, GROWL (7 minutes ago)

My pit bull: woof (7 minutes ago)

My pit bull: When's dinner? (about an hour ago)

"If my buzz box is any indicator, the spammers are pretty much the only people actually using Buzz, and until Facebook can integrate, i wonder if that will change. "

Wow, way to make to make yourself look silly submitter:

http://mashable.com/2010/02/14/google-buzz-column/

"Google Buzz's Skyrocketing Usage
While it's still very early into Buzz's life cycle, initial indications show that Google has a hit on its hands. Linking Buzz to Gmail's millions of users has clearly brought people into the company's new social domain.

Google has only released two numbers so far: there have been over 9 million posts and comments in about 56 hours, amounting to around 160,000 posts and comments per hour. That's even more impressive if you consider the fact that most users didn't get Buzz until Wednesday the 10th.

The other number: over 200 mobile check-ins per minute, nearly 300,000 mobile check-ins per day.

Those numbers are simply stellar."

Every major blogger is using Buzz now and some of them are saying they already have a larger Buzz following in just a few days than they had with other social media sites that they spent years building up.

Sometimes, a better strategy for open source adoption is to focus on new, unmet needs, rather than 'ripping out' proprietary software that 'already works'.

Consider the new open source policy in San Francisco city government. The tech department started using open source for projects that had to be done so quickly, or for so little money, that there was literally no other option. For example, they used WordPress to launch their RecoverySF.org site in a few weeks, rather than the usual months or years. Their successes got the attention of city leaders, including the mayor. With enough open source victories on the ground, it makes it much easier to create a level playing field for open source, or maybe even tilt the field in its favor.

If you'd like some poorly-written academic papers addressing these issues, I can send you some of mine.

I suspect Wil Wheaton fans are more likely to be Twitter users than your average bear. As of this past summer:

the HubSpot State of the Twittersphere study reports low activity levels for a significant number of users. Specifically, 55.5% of users are not following anyone, 54.9% have never tweeted and 52.71% have no followers.

Hence the relatively low numbers for /users/, defined as people that actually /use/ Twitter, and for /registered accounts/ which I should have qualified as /active/ registered accounts.

Latest research on Twitter users: http://mashable.com/2009/09/14/twitter-2009-stats/

That's 18 million people who access Twitter at least once per month.

Compare to Farmville: http://mashable.com/2009/12/02/farmville-bigger-than-twitter/

69 million users who play at least once per month

It's even more lopsided that I suggested.

I suspect Wil Wheaton fans are more likely to be Twitter users than your average bear. As of this past summer:

the HubSpot State of the Twittersphere study reports low activity levels for a significant number of users. Specifically, 55.5% of users are not following anyone, 54.9% have never tweeted and 52.71% have no followers.

Hence the relatively low numbers for /users/, defined as people that actually /use/ Twitter, and for /registered accounts/ which I should have qualified as /active/ registered accounts.

Latest research on Twitter users: http://mashable.com/2009/09/14/twitter-2009-stats/

That's 18 million people who access Twitter at least once per month.

Compare to Farmville: http://mashable.com/2009/12/02/farmville-bigger-than-twitter/

69 million users who play at least once per month

It's even more lopsided that I suggested.

Hmm... the next logical evolution step in your case might be this:

http://mashable.com/2008/01/30/richard-stallman-invents-new-way-of-browsing-the-web/

There is no way the iPhone app model will be used in OS X - just what evidence do you have that it will? Apple released a slew of new OSS features in Snow Leopard, with GCD and OpenCL being chief among them, and have encouraged developers to use them. Why do that if they are going to limit OS X?

The iPhone and iPad are designed around a different software model, to be more like appliances - it doesn't mean OS X will go this way, not even "likely" - I would put a [citation needed] response on that one, it is so absurd.

As to taking "many months" to get your app on the store... again, [citation needed].

How long does it take to get an app into the iTunes App Store? While we’ve seen some estimates of up to 20 days to have your app approved, we’ve had apps accepted in as few as five.

from my first google hit: http://mashable.com/2009/06/10/build-iphone-app/

If you do not like Apple's model, you are free to *not buy into it* and instead buy an Android device, or some other competing product. It's not like Apple are the only player here. There are many ways to skin a cat, and Apple's "one gatekeeper" approach works extremely well for them, and no one is forcing you to take part (unless you want an iPhone, but want to do something else with it, but then... why buy the iPhone in the first place - buy a Nexus One or something).

Let me just repeat - Apple's model for OS X is totally, completely separate from the iPhone. They are not going to put iPhone OS on Macs and control the software you use on it. All evidence so far suggests they are in fact, opening up OS X a little more than before, starting at an OSS level for some of their new core technologies rather than opening them up later (or keeping them closed source), they support the installation of pretty much anything you can port over, and they don't make it difficult - the dev tools are free, and they provide an X window system if you don't want to (or can't due to various reasons) rewrite the UI to be native. They have a thriving third party commercial software industry going, much like Windows does, and there is no reason to change that.

By your logic, the Xbox OS is pretty locked up, so that must mean that "the next version of windows" is "likely" to be all closed up as well, with MS having to approve all software you install on it, and only being able to buy apps for Windows via Xbox Live, right? Seems very likely.

And what if the room is bugged? Possibly by the very software described in the article. So leaving your cellphone outside helps, but is still no guarantee.

Your two scenarios of insecure (electronic) and secure (in person) is a false dichotomy. There's no such thing as "secure" or "insecure", just degrees of security. How much communication security do you need? That depends on how badly you want privacy — and how badly somebody else wants to deprive you of it.

The real lesson here is the one Bruce Schneier keeps trying to teach (with little success, it seems): security is a process, not a product. If you're worried about somebody listening in, look for weak points in the channel. Don't try to find a magic 128-bit shield at Radio Shack.

You only think you're joking.

http://mashable.com/2010/01/04/pocket-heater-iphone/

We're all missing why this was posted to slashdot. I too was outraged by the numbers and finally realized that this post was about the *RESPONSE* to the Wall Street article, not the article itself. I'll bet not one of us has read the response at http://mashable.com/2010/01/13/app-store-piracy/ . Let's do that before hanging someone.

This guy is a moron. Most of his "gripes" aren't even real gripes (e.g. the tools are too helpful!). The others aren't legitimate, except perhaps fragmentation, but that's inherent in the whole point of Android and the SDK has done a pretty good job so far of either letting you design for compatibility mode (in which Android tries to figure out the best way to render your UI) or design for 3 broad categories (basically small, medium, and large screens). The guy really tips his hand when he talks about how Android hardware sucks. Check out this chart: http://mashable.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-vs-droid-vs-iphone/ In terms of specs like screen and camera resolution, battery life, chipset, etc., the newest generation of Android devices are either comparable or surpass the iPhone. The really stupid aspect of this article is that there are legitimate gripes about the platform that the author completely ignores. Huge on the list should be the inability of Android to run apps from the SD card, and thus the constraints on available space for apps on a device. The market still has all kinds of problems, the most dire a need for a decent desktop portal, something somewhere near comparable to iTunes. As far as the actual SDK, particular APIs are a chore to use (Google Maps, for example), and though Google rolls out new features with every SDK, they are often poorly documented (e.g., the new Account Manager API). All in all, Android is great to develop for. But like every platform it's got its problems, and if you're going to gripe about it, do it right.

I'm using RockOn and last.fm. You also might want to check out this article on spotify.

If they shout out Bing! they should be alright in Balmer's book.

I can't verify if this video is true, but if it is... Damn, that shows quite a temper right there.
Anyone want to hazard a guess for its authenticity?

You say this like it's a joke, and not reality.

Just for your own information...

sync issues:

http://mashable.com/2009/11/09/iphone-windows-7-sync/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330485-263.html
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/intel-responds-on-iphone-sync-issues/
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/ipod-iphone-software-apps/139937-i-have-mind-boggling-iphone-3g-sync-problem.html
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97665

Random shutdowns/decreased battery life:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2009/09/iphone-os-31-problems-random-shutdown-poor-battery-life-bricked-iphone-slow-performance.html
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/16/iphone-31-bugs-random-freeze-shut/
http://iphone-chat.org/31-random-shutdown-and-battery-death-iphone-3g-65401/
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/iphone-therefore-iblog/2009/09/iphone-shutdown.html

As far as overheating/burning/asploading, it isn't a widespread problem...but...well...I'll just let the 103 million results speek for themselves:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS354US354&q=iphone+fire

Microsoft stole Plurk's design and code. Not the Chinese. Not the Americans.

Nice try. Microsoft outsourced its coding to a Chinese company, THEY stole the source code and design. Quoting from Ars Technica:

The debacle with Juku is an indication that the software giant needs to either stop outsourcing its various small projects (unlikely to happen anytime soon), or come up with a better way to cross-check its code.

This is a CHINESE malaise, not a Microsoft one. Half of the huge Chinese websites out there rely on stealing content and code theft to launch. Blaming Microsoft because they are the largest target is trendy, but misleading.

The fourth most visited website is generally considered to be a major website, and it has dropped support for IE6.

I don't break functionality of IE6 sites, but if the off by three bug shows up on IE6 whatever, It's an old browser,and people that use it, like the people that use Netscape 4 don't really expect the web to work completely correct.

> Does anybody have a SFW link? Something like this certainly must have more than one FA.

http://mashable.com/2009/09/27/reddit-attack/

AV shouldn't be nessecary ... If old bugs are patched properly

AV shouldn't be necessary, but then malware shouldn't exist. Similarly, most users don't bother to install the latest updates. We have to work with what we have, not with some hypothetical world where these problems don't exist.
While I agree that MS has a bad history, that doesn't solve the problem at hand. Bugs will appear in any OS, and while there will be fewer in some than in others, any OS that gains sufficient popularity will be targeted. (e.g.)

in nearly all cases the AV software doens't work when confronted with something new, only old.

Heuristics are getting more effective. And most people are fine as long as they keep their AV updated, which is usually done automatically.

What it comes down to is that it's impossible to make a platform secure without locking it down, and even then malware for it will exist (see the iPhone example I gave earlier).

While I agree that Facebook is the first well implemented piece of social software of its niche, what is so novel about its design but its momentum?

Does it have anything to do with PHP? Hadoop?

Facebook could be implemented with standard DBMS like MySQL right?
try login when I can be bothered - once a week.
I think there are a few Open source social web networks:

http://mashable.com/2007/07/25/open-source-social-platforms/

I find the Frontpage annoying because originally I couldn't work out how to only display things from friends I choose, a whitelist rather than a blacklist. It's actually easy:
Make a list of friends that you want to see updates for and then on the homepage move it to the very top on the left menu. Unintuitive but it works.

I don't know. This laptop looks really fast. Look at it fly!

http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/bonnenaccount.gif

She doesn't like McDonalds?

Batman doesn't like chocolate.

http://www.demotivateus.com/posters/batman-chocolate-demotivational-posters.jpg

Anonymous Coward did some research and regrets the above post. According to http://mashable.com/2009/07/28/horizon-realty/ the tweeter was the first to sue and was being a bitch about it to the company; the lawsuit is a response. So it's really the woman who rapes goats and murders kittens. We now return you to your regularly scheduled AC programming.

A choice quote from http://mashable.com/2009/07/28/woman-sued-tweet/: "We're a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization." Horizon can subpoena Slashdot for my user information and sue me for calling them asses, because I think they're asses. Horse's asses, to be precise.

Coouple interesting things: (1) It's not an individual landlord doing this, it's a large real estate company. Hey, companies do stupid things. (2) Read the following proud quote and hope the die by their own sword:

"How much damage can a Tweet do? According to property management company Horizon Realty, $50,000 worth... Horizon's Jeffrey Michael is quoted in the Sun-Times as saying 'The statements are obviously false, and it's our intention to prove that', adding that Horizon has a good reputation to protect. Bonnen wasn't contacted before the suit was filed or asked to remove the Tweet, he said: 'We're a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization'."

http://mashable.com/2009/07/28/woman-sued-tweet/

I think you got it upside-down and inside-out.

The twitter entry actually talks about mold in the apartment only indirectly. However it talks directly about the Horizon organization, at least according to http://mashable.com/2009/07/28/woman-sued-tweet/

"Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? [h] realty thinks itâ(TM)s okay."

So that would be difficult to prove to be true, or not?

Stephan

I'd like to see where this goes. This is gutsy, and apparently they know what they're doing and they mean business. Their message is clear, concise, and I don't completely disagree with them. Interesting.

Oddly, this comment, verbatim - save the "Wow" is the subject and not "Wow...", is on another story about this.

Personally I fear people that would go to lengths to post the exact same thing on multiple sites than people with causes.

I'd like to give a shout out to Zorg, from the Fifth Element on this one "I don't like warriors. Too narrow-minded, no subtlety. And worse, they fight for hopeless causes. Honor? Huh! Honor's killed millions of people, it hasn't saved a single one."

Sony may not always play nice, but at least they haven't been charged with monopolistic business practices (that I'm aware of, anyway).

The USA investigated Sony for antitrust violations in 2008, as did China in 2007.

Maybe Greese doesn't want to be known for more google flashers like this guy...(NSFW) http://media.googlesightseeing.com/2009/5/ajdt209.jpg or possibly they don't want to be caught going to strip clubs like this guy.. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&geocode=&q=cheaters&near=Providence,+RI&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=41.838618,-71.402206&spn=0.061005,0.116386&z=13&om=0&cbll=41.807434,-71.403703&cbp=1,567.3164656162561,,0,0.7974551423761682 and just for fun here are some other odd sightings... http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/

Why? It's either a troll or satire.

The "individualized web toolkit" is webkit, which is used by KDE, Nokia, and Safari.

Chrome is getting extension support (albeit not Firefox compatible) real soon now.

Furthermore, Chrome has Greasemonkey support to a degree already. See http://mashable.com/2008/12/15/google-chrome-greasemonkey-scripts/

Finally, Chrome has better privacy than Firefox in some ways because it has an anonymous browsing mode, and it's more secure because of the process and sandbox model they use. Firefox is working on that, but they're a long way behind.

Really, Firefox is falling pretty far behind many of the other browsers at this point. Don't get me wrong - it's still a good browser, and way better than IE, but all that it's got going for it now is the extension framework. Safari and Chrome are both way faster than Firefox. Even IE has a better process model (Firefox runs everything in a single thread, which is why it gets really sluggish with a lot of open tabs, or when one tab is really CPU heavy). Firefox is also a huge memory hog and, at least on Linux, is pretty unstable.

Again, most of these things will be fixed if they can fix their process model, but I expect that's a long ways off. They've got a lot of catching up to do.

Twitter provides realtime search. It shows intent realtime. It shows trends. It's faster than the news media and blogs, and, with a 140 character limit, it cuts to the chase. And it's growing like crazy.

MS and / or Yahoo should be looking at Twitter seriously. It's the real deal.

> Or, if I make a movie of myself and friend at a party, dancing on Prince's music, and I label it "Prince - Purple rain.avi" should IsoHunt remove it because it may be the actual video of the song or should IsoHunt staff be forced to download it and count how many seconds of Purple Rain actually are (if any) so that they can determine if it's fair use (less than 30 seconds of song) or not?

Thing is, Prince would still go after you for that even if it was clearly fair use. I base that on the fact that the Purple Weirdo who can't spell filed a DMCA Takedown Notice against a woman for a clip on YouTube of her baby dancing to a few seconds of one of his songs...

WB: strike one?

SONY: strike one?

FOX: strike one?

VIACOM: strike one?

DISNEY: strike one?

MPAA: strike one?

(let's not forget politicians)

SEN ORIN HATCH: strike one?

Exhibit C:

"Why do you think people don't use amazon?"

They do, actually. Their MP3 store launched a year and a half ago and sell about 10% of what iTunes does. Some estimates place them as the #2 digital retailer:

http://mashable.com/2008/03/26/amazon-mp3-takes-2/

Furthermore, that figure almost certainly represents sales mostly taken from iTunes. Almost every iPod/iTunes user I know has switched.

It's worth noting that Amazon also refuses to sell me music simply because I do not live in the US. I fail to see how this is any better than iTunes Music Store. At least with iTunes I have the option of using gift codes to pretend I live in the US and get my music that way. With Amazon I have no such recourse, as far as I have been able to find out. It's credit card or nothing. (Paypal knows where you live too so that doesn't work either.)

he apple apologists need to seriously STFU with this "it isn't apple's fault!" nonsense. They're partners. Apple is not some holy child that hath cometh down from the mountain to bestow upon the unwashed masses all that is holy and good.

I'd tell you to a heaping spoonful of STFU yourself, but I think you've done Apple enthusiasts everywhere a service by serving as a quintessential example of knee-jerk Apple Critic. You certainly don't know what you're talking about with regards to how the DRM works, you seem to be ignorant of Apple's actions and stated intentions with regard to said DRM, you seem to have reflexively confused licensing issues with DRM issues, and you seem generally confused about the value and state of other players in the marketplace.

Exhibit A:

"Bought that song on your computer at work? Want to listen to it on your computer at home? Well guess what, charlie, unless you find some obscure bullshit setting in some hidden window in some far off corner of some far off menu in iTunes, $1 more shall go to the Steve."

Anyone who's ever used iTunes on more than a single computer knows there's a simple solution to this problem. It doesn't involve an obscure menu, in fact, iTunes will *prompt* you for the necessary information as soon as you try to play the song.

Exhibit B:

A moments of thought would reveal that the geographic restrictions on purchases have little to do with DRM and everything to do with licensing, since DRM (on music anyway) isn't tied to a region, and isn't the technology used in restricting the purchase at any rate.

Exhibit C:

"Why do you think people don't use amazon?"

They do, actually. Their MP3 store launched a year and a half ago and sell about 10% of what iTunes does. Some estimates place them as the #2 digital retailer:

http://mashable.com/2008/03/26/amazon-mp3-takes-2/

Furthermore, that figure almost certainly represents sales mostly taken from iTunes. Almost every iPod/iTunes user I know has switched.

Exhibit D:

"Or why microsoft's VASTLY superior subscription model is ignored?"

I can see value in a subscription model, I've participated in Rhapsody and Satellite Radio before. But at the end of the day, many people -- apparently more people -- happily choose ownership of their selection of media rather than ongoing rent to access to a broader selection, so it's not particularly clear that it's a vastly superior model.

Overall, it appears that the purpose of your post is really to express some ill-defined anger at Apple as a company or to project a straw-man image of people who buy and enjoy their products.

It certainly isn't to express well-considered criticism of some of the company's practices.

TFA http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/23/free-monty-python-videos-on-youtube-lead-to-23000-dvd-sale-increase/
refers to http://mashable.com/2009/01/22/youtube-boost-sales/
which allegedly refers to a mashable news from 01/21/2009, but the linked site http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/youtube-click-to-buy-overlay-ads/
has NOTHING to do with amazons bestseller lists AND there was no mashable news on 01/21/2009 about amazon at all. see http://mashable.com/page/2/ and http://mashable.com/page/3/

moreover none of amazons "Movies & TV" bestseller lists http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dvd/ref=pd_ts_d_ldr_dvd/183-1981496-3747918 or sublists (links on the left side) has a monty python title (if it was no. 2 on 01/21/2009, like the first mashable "news" claims, then i don't think it would have been out so fast)
also the "news" doesn't mention, WHICH title was no. 2 in the bestseller list, but I think amazon's search-results are sorted by Sales Rank and the highest one in the search-results for "monty python" is http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009XRZ92 on rank 755 in Movies & TV.

i think, the whole article is just made up.

TFA http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/23/free-monty-python-videos-on-youtube-lead-to-23000-dvd-sale-increase/
refers to http://mashable.com/2009/01/22/youtube-boost-sales/
which allegedly refers to a mashable news from 01/21/2009, but the linked site http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/youtube-click-to-buy-overlay-ads/
has NOTHING to do with amazons bestseller lists AND there was no mashable news on 01/21/2009 about amazon at all. see http://mashable.com/page/2/ and http://mashable.com/page/3/

moreover none of amazons "Movies & TV" bestseller lists http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dvd/ref=pd_ts_d_ldr_dvd/183-1981496-3747918 or sublists (links on the left side) has a monty python title (if it was no. 2 on 01/21/2009, like the first mashable "news" claims, then i don't think it would have been out so fast)
also the "news" doesn't mention, WHICH title was no. 2 in the bestseller list, but I think amazon's search-results are sorted by Sales Rank and the highest one in the search-results for "monty python" is http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009XRZ92 on rank 755 in Movies & TV.

i think, the whole article is just made up.

TFA http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/23/free-monty-python-videos-on-youtube-lead-to-23000-dvd-sale-increase/
refers to http://mashable.com/2009/01/22/youtube-boost-sales/
which allegedly refers to a mashable news from 01/21/2009, but the linked site http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/youtube-click-to-buy-overlay-ads/
has NOTHING to do with amazons bestseller lists AND there was no mashable news on 01/21/2009 about amazon at all. see http://mashable.com/page/2/ and http://mashable.com/page/3/

moreover none of amazons "Movies & TV" bestseller lists http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dvd/ref=pd_ts_d_ldr_dvd/183-1981496-3747918 or sublists (links on the left side) has a monty python title (if it was no. 2 on 01/21/2009, like the first mashable "news" claims, then i don't think it would have been out so fast)
also the "news" doesn't mention, WHICH title was no. 2 in the bestseller list, but I think amazon's search-results are sorted by Sales Rank and the highest one in the search-results for "monty python" is http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009XRZ92 on rank 755 in Movies & TV.

i think, the whole article is just made up.

TFA http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/01/23/free-monty-python-videos-on-youtube-lead-to-23000-dvd-sale-increase/
refers to http://mashable.com/2009/01/22/youtube-boost-sales/
which allegedly refers to a mashable news from 01/21/2009, but the linked site http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/youtube-click-to-buy-overlay-ads/
has NOTHING to do with amazons bestseller lists AND there was no mashable news on 01/21/2009 about amazon at all. see http://mashable.com/page/2/ and http://mashable.com/page/3/

moreover none of amazons "Movies & TV" bestseller lists http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dvd/ref=pd_ts_d_ldr_dvd/183-1981496-3747918 or sublists (links on the left side) has a monty python title (if it was no. 2 on 01/21/2009, like the first mashable "news" claims, then i don't think it would have been out so fast)
also the "news" doesn't mention, WHICH title was no. 2 in the bestseller list, but I think amazon's search-results are sorted by Sales Rank and the highest one in the search-results for "monty python" is http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009XRZ92 on rank 755 in Movies & TV.

i think, the whole article is just made up.

I' quite sure they mean websites like this

Top 10 iPhone Optimized Websites or 20 Websites Optimized for the iPhone

While this is no rewriting/transformation it could be considered as some kind of "sister site".

I'd still consider their claims "wobbly" and hope that they'll fail.

1.) Streetview shows people as well as places and things.
2.) What you call a black and white world, I call drawing a hard line when it comes to my personal privacy. I don't want street view cameras going through my neighborhood taking pictures of my house much less going on my personal property. At some point people have to stand up and say no to things like this.

http://flickr.com/photos/bumi/285541845/sizes/o/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/facebook-sues-german-social-network-studivz/

http://mashable.com/images/facebookbigshot1.png

Check out the links to the Internet Archive home pages made by other posters, while you're at it. Facebook's home page recently changed, and their additional CSS is because their style sheets link to broad sets of standard styles. You don't mean to imply with a straight face that breaking up the CSS differently is evidence that it was written originally, or that even if it was, that it's not intended to duplicate arbitrary choices made by Facebook designers, do you?

Explain to me why all the unique content coding at studiVZ is in German, while all their PHP is in English, and named exactly the same as the includes, libraries, and function pages as Facebook.

So only Google & Yahoo were "provided technology and information" - Microsoft must be feeling left out.. lucky for adobe they dont live in sweden I suppose.

I wonder why adobe didn't invite msft/live.com to the party? Sour grapes over silverlight perhaps?

The problem with this is once you allow one thing to be blocked, it opens up the floodgates for other "objectionable" things to be blocked, which could even mean things are legal but considered objectionable. I think we can all agree (minus Eric Moeller from Wiki Media http://mashable.com/2008/05/08/erik-moeller-pedophilia/) that child porn isn't a good thing but it's the censorship that sucks.

It's one step closer to China.

Twitter is down, like, half the time.

How long until the first lawsuit from a disgruntled plant-owner whose plant died because he was waiting for a tweet that never came?

(Note for the humor-impaired: I keed, I keed!)

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents is meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. After backing out of a hearing procedure which they established to give an opportunity for due process, we filled a civil rights and discrimination lawsuit in Federal court.

It may be more effective to contact the Board of Regents at this point.

Office of the Chancellor
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
Suite 7025
270 Washington Street, SW
Atlanta, GA 30334
office: (404) 656-2202
fax: (404) 657-6979
email: chancellor@usg.edu

http://www.usg.edu/contact/
http://www.usg.edu/regents/members/

Join my Facebook group @ http://kennesaw.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6371166090

The story about the lawsuit has been heard across Georgia. Newspapers from Valdosta, Augusta, and Athens are reporting on the case. It's been discussed on television, radio, and Internet blogs. Prominent education journal "Inside Higher Ed" featured it on their front page.

http://mashable.com/2008/01/13/facebook-users-photo-led-to-expulsion-from-university/
http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=1664
http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/01/10/Valdosta_State_Student_Says_Facebook_Opinion_Resulted_in_Expulsion_From_School.htm
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/011208/news_20080112030.shtml
http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/local/local_story_011142725.html
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8794.html
http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8796.html
http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=7612384

The University System of Georgia Board of Regents is meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. After backing out of a hearing procedure which they established to give an opportunity for due process, we filled a civil rights and discrimination lawsuit in Federal court. It may be more effective to contact the Board of Regents at this point. Office of the Chancellor Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Suite 7025 270 Washington Street, SW Atlanta, GA 30334 office: (404) 656-2202 fax: (404) 657-6979 email: chancellor@usg.edu http://www.usg.edu/contact/ http://www.usg.edu/regents/members/ Join my Facebook group @ http://kennesaw.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6371166090 The story about the lawsuit has been heard across Georgia. Newspapers from Valdosta, Augusta, and Athens are reporting on the case. It's been discussed on television, radio, and Internet blogs. Prominent education journal "Inside Higher Ed" featured it on their front page. http://mashable.com/2008/01/13/facebook-users-photo-led-to-expulsion-from-university/ http://www.splc.org/newsflash.asp?id=1664 http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/01/10/Valdosta_State_Student_Says_Facebook_Opinion_Resulted_in_Expulsion_From_School.htm http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/011208/news_20080112030.shtml http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/local/local_story_011142725.html http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8794.html http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/8796.html http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=7612384

I wholeheartedly agree that the first startup to get profile aggregation and contact management right will solve many power-user's frustrations with multiple profiles. However, I am not sure if this will be the universal killer app that people believe it to be. At this time, myself and many of my friends have profiles on multiple networks but each one caters to a different audience. My LinkedIn profile is for professional contacts, my Facebook is largely for keeping in touch with select college friends and family, and Friendster and Myspace are for everyone else. I don't necessarily want the same level of personal information available on every site. I would however like a way to group each person's multiple profiles under their name and be able to extract relevant contact information for synchronization into my mobile phone via Outlook.

Maybe this idea can be taken further. Is there an open framework where I can create a personal profile on my own server or free hosting service and link to my friends profiles a la Jabber's open model but for the social scene? Could this service provide a comment space, photo sharing, private messaging (via email), and RSS feeds via a shared application API? It seems like this would be very easily to implement if Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Hi5, and Bebo decided to open their networks to non-local hosted profiles and take the data from your profile and display it using their service's user interface. SPAM and privacy controls would have to be implemented but it would be as simple as: "If you would like to link your profile into the Facebook network please verify your profile via OpenID/OpenID2, email address, or mobile phone number." Granular privacy controls could be implemented by allowed users to group their friends profiles based on how much they want to share. Facebook has already started doing this.

Until this can occur, profile aggregation will be at the whim and mercy of the "terms of service" of the big walled gardens. As it stands, profile link list sites like My Mashable, ClaimID, Spock, and Rapleaf along with a mechanism to push your data to these services is just a hack. Unfortunately, its the only way to go for now.

What the article doesn't seem to cover is people like Marie Digby, who was being portrayed as just a girl singing some song who did good and got a record deal (like Esmee Denters) when in fact it was a media campaign by her record company Hollywood Records (a Disney company) to get her known and selling albums.

The fact is: the big record companies are finding ways to utilize YouTube just like they've utilized radio and MTV.