Erased
TweetOK, forget for a few minutes the debate about who owns your email addresses, birthdays, and name on social networking sites. Forget for a few minutes about whether or not I was a jerk, stupid,...
View ArticlePlaxo: the social monster?
TweetJudi Sohn rips into the trustworthiness of both me and Plaxo for attempting to import email addresses, names, and birthdays. First of all, just to make clear, I have NOT used any of the data I...
View ArticleHas your Facebook account been “erased” by Facebook?
TweetDamn, ever since Facebook blocked my account for a little less than a day people have been calling me with some real sob stories about how their accounts got turned off by Facebook and that they...
View ArticleIn my day…
TweetI remember back when I was going to West Valley Community College in the 1980s that a few professors at other schools (thankfully not at West Valley) had banned those “newfangled Macintoshes.”...
View ArticleIs Facebook doomed?
TweetAhh, the patina is shedding off of Facebook. Looks like the trend I noticed when I was in London talking with Maryam’s niece in December has hit home for Facebook. Is usage down? My own usage is...
View ArticleAudio: Another story of someone kicked off Facebook
TweetOK, I keep getting calls from people who get kicked off of Facebook for stuff that they think is normal usage of Facebook. Last week I asked Mark Zuckerberg about it, and he said they only kicked...
View ArticleFacebook narcissism
Jim Russell caught something funny. (Or sad, if you look at it the right way). Facebook should have a warning “you’re about to look like a self-absorbed a**h**e to the entire world.” Well, now that we...
View ArticleDare's right about Facebook Beacon
One of the things I sorta tried to ignore over the past week has been the hubub about Facebook’s new advertising strategy. But it’s gotten too loud to ignore. This is evil. I’d write more, but Dare...
View Article"I love Fake Steve Jobs" and Facebook's PR crisis
Here’s my Fake Steve Jobs story (Fake Steve Jobs is a blog that pretends it’s written by Apple CEO/co-founder Steve Jobs. It got popular this year and recently it was revealed that a Forbes Magazine...
View ArticleWhere the hell is Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook?
It’s just totally amazing to me how badly Facebook is handling the PR around its new Beacon system. This story is NOT going away. Even if this particular story goes away, there’s a bad taste in our...
View ArticleTrying out the new Facebook ads
Bill Erickson noticed a General Motors ad that had my name and picture associated to it. Yeah, I love my Saturn so I joined their fan page. It’ll be interesting to see how companies and people use...
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The first Twitter/Facebook/Seesmic/Kyte business card?
Hmmm, is this the first Twitter business card? The first Kyte business card? The first Seesmic business card? Heheh. Thanks to Hugh Macleod, my favorite London artist. What does the other side say?...
View ArticleScoble is insecure, researchers say
Heheh, here’s proof that I’m insecure. At least it’s true if you look at a Guardian article that says that research is showing that people with more than 800 Facebook friends are seen as insecure. I...
View ArticleUnintended advantages
I’m getting dozens of emails asking for my script. See, there’s a ton of people who WANT to be deleted from Facebook. So far Facebook has been denying them, saying it’s impossible to delete everything...
View ArticleWhat I was using to hit Facebook — unreleased Plaxo Pulse
OK, so I’ve been released from my NDA. I was alpha testing an upcoming feature of Plaxo Pulse — this feature has not yet been released and now that my account has gotten shut down it’s not clear...
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