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Blogging: Conversations with strangers?

I was trying to add Sam Gentile to my FaceBook friends list this morning and he declined on the basis that he didn’t know me. And rightfully so; we’ve never met, he’s never seen me, he’s never even heard my name before. But I feel… Read more »

Love FaceBook? What about your privacy?

My friend Legal Andrew has just put together a brilliant post after taking some time to study FaceBook‘s Terms of Service. He maintains that your data on FaceBook isn’t private and also points out a number of terms that everyone should be aware of when… Read more »

Innovation driving Innovation

Don’t you just love the way how innovation and market development go hand in hand? One person comes up with a widget, someone else will copy it and make some improvements, someone else will come up with a brand new way to use it, but… Read more »

Are you on FaceBook?

I’m starting to get hooked on FaceBook. I’m away on holiday at the moment, and I keep wanting to log in to see what’s happened. I’ve just got myself an internet connection and I want to go there now, but I thought I’d pop something… Read more »

A Cautionary Tale

Following an article that Sherrilynne Starkie wrote in the local paper: Tech Talk: A cautionary tale (great article by the way, some poignant anecdotes in there), a thread was sparked off on one of the local forums starting off a discussion as to whether forums… Read more »

Rise of the social networks

Are you a member of a social network? These sites are designed to put you in touch with people with similar likes and dislikes. There are a number around, including MySpace, FaceBook, Orkut and LinkedIn. But there’s also one that was built here in the… Read more »

Social Bookmark Meta-Search

I came across a search engine today that is focused on searching the Social Bookmark sites (like Digg, Reddit and a bunch of others). There’s 53 websites in the search and the results are provided thanks to Google Co-op. You can also get a FireFox… Read more »

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