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"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."

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We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful.
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Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance
A punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Will nature make a man of me yet?
All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life.
Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte

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The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on.
It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause

Scripting News: Ping: It’s even worse than it appeared

Further examination of Apple’s new social network reveals more problems. 

To review from last night’s post: 

1. It’s awkward, at least, that it runs in iTunes and not a web browser. There’s no Back button, no way to copy the address of a page and share it outside of iTunes. Also if it were just a website we’d be able to access it from an iPad now, not some time in the future. 

2. There’s no way to Like the song you’re listening to. In other words there doesn’t seem to be any integration with the music-listening app, [

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How information moves in today’s society

I made a graphic that shows how I think information moves through our society today. At the top is the discovery, on its way to becoming common knowledge at the bottom it has to move through several phases. Each phase is an ecological niche that is occupied by a different species. Each creature on the list feeds off of information and uses it for energy to do work. Without information it dies. Take any topic and you can trace its path through the information ecosystem. Global Climate Change, Health Care, Peak Oil, Asbestos concerns, Water on the moon, [

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be an ARSE and email while driving with Text'nDrive Pro for iPhone (!!! you what?)

Well this is rich isn’t it? “If the app stops you having one ‘bad’ accident” – what is the sliding-scale and what would be accidental!! SHAME ON YOU TUAW – AND APPLE© FOR ALLOWING IT ON iTunes.

Is Text’nDrive Pro worth $19.99? If you avoid even one traffic citation for “texting while driving,” you’d probably come out ahead. If the app keeps you from having a bad accident while you’re distracted by your iPhone, then it’s worth every penny you pay for it, and more.

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Google boss Eric Schmidt warns on social use of media

Young people may have one day have to change their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned.

Mr Schmidt told the Wall Street Journal he feared they did not understand the consequences of having so much personal information about them online.

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the difference between doing social vs. being social

To move from doing social to being social, an organization must ask itself ‘who drives social bus?’ If the marketing group is just “out there” tweeting away, joining LinkedIN groups and setting up Facebook fan pages without a plan to build a deeper understanding of customer needs, or if the data generated by online social relationships are not being traced throughout the organization’s core operations, then chances are the company is just “doing” social.

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Google vs iPhone and Facebook

People are boasting on Google’s behalf of their prowess in being able to catch Apple in market share. It is impressive, but not as much as you might think. Apple has never tried to lock-out their competitors, they’ve never designed their product strategies for market share. Jobs said that in a recent interview (I think it was at the D conference). Google has been able to do to Apple in mobile devices what Microsoft did to Apple in PCs, because Apple would rather control their share of the market and have a single target defined by both hardware and software than [

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The First Poster That Responds To People Looking At It.



This bus stop advertisement was put up in Hamburg, Germany, and what makes it interesting is the fact that it’s an interactive poster which uses eye tracking camera. When no one looks directly at the poster, it displays a typical scene of domestic issue. And when a passer-by looks at the poster directly, the ‘eye tracking’ camera registers the people looking directly at the poster and the image changes into a photo of the same couple pretending to be happy.

The First Poster That Responds To People Looking At It (3) 1 article foreshortened, click for more » The First Poster That Responds To People Looking At It.

Old Spice – takes me back

How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker

It’s the coolest social networking tool in the world. But is the geo-location app Foursquare a stalker’s dream? Just how easy it is to uncover the intimate details of a complete stranger’s life?

But with such power comes responsibility and there are growing concerns that Foursquare is proving to be a “stalker’s dream”. Sure, you might earn yourself a “free” decaf latte when you check in five times at a coffee shop, but at what price to your privacy? Last month, a coding expert called Jesper Andersenmanaged to capture the details of 875,000 check-ins in San Francisco– currently, [

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Twitterburra


Is your Council on Twitter?

Twitter boroughsLast time I checked, in March last year, your council probably wasn’t. And now it probably is. A total of twenty London boroughs have taken the plunge and are attempting to interact online with their residents, with varying degrees of success. Some are merely promoting council services, consultations or events. Some tediously regurgitate press releases and chop them off after the first 140 characters. Most only broadcast, while others occasionally respond. And a few are occasionally interesting, or useful, or even both. Here’s a clickable summary of how those 20 councils are doing, along with a recent sample tweet.

» Barnet [405 followers, 528 updates] (first tweet May 2008)
http://twitpic.com/26tz78 – Council Leader Lynne Hillan and Police Borough Commander Neil Basu look at plans for the refurb of Friary House.
» Brent [901 followers, 497 updates] (first tweet March 2009)
Electric slide rehearsal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT7TZvTFFqs #brentdancerecord #electricslide
» Bromley [216 followers, 59 updates] (first tweet Sept 2009) article foreshortened, click for more » Twitterburra

Tumblr Is on fire. now over 6 million users

One year ago, in July 2009, Tumblr was going strong. They had 255 million pageviews that month. By November of last year, that was up to 420 million pageviews. But some new stats which Tumblr is releasing today show an explosion in growth since then. Tumblr is now at 1.5 billion pageviews a month — their Quantcast data confirms this.

For the first time, Tumblr is now a top 50 site in the U.S. in terms of traffic as gauged by Quantcast. And only half of Tumblr’s 6.25 million users are in the U.S. Those users are now [

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TweetDeck Turns Two, Desktop App Passes 15 Million Downloads

Popular stream reader TweetDeck turned two on July 4th, and founder Iain Dodsworth just put up a post giving an update on the company’s progress. Tweetdeck now employs 15 people and recently raised more than $3 million in a series B round, led by betaworks. The company’s product started out as a Twitter client, but now supports multiple streams, including Facebook, Foursquare, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, and Myspace.

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Germany goes after Facebook over claimed privacy violations

The German Data Protection Authority in Hamburg has launched legal action against Facebook, following complaints from people “who had not signed up to Facebook, but whose details had been added to the site by friends.” Facebook is accused of storing the private data of non-members without their permission, to be used for marketing purposes.

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Beach IKEA Ad Evokes Library Vibe

I’d love to see a coastal library set up a permanent book exchange like this. Has it been done?

[pic from baddogwhiskas]

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Transparency: Where the Stuff on the Internet Comes From

Every day, thousands of stories are passed around the internet on blogs and via Twitter. A new study by Journalism.org has examined the source of those stories. It turns out, most of them come from old-school media. We may like to share information via Twitter, but the information we share comes from the morning’s newspaper. This is a look at where blogs and Twitter users are getting their stories, and what kind of stories their users are most likely to link to.

Source: Journalism.org

A collaboration between GOOD and Part & Parcel.

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Pondering Friendship Online: Focus on Intimacy

I have found in my brief forty-two years on the planet that everyone has a different spectrum of friendship. Some people I barely know appear to consider me a friend, and that’s typically charming (if perhaps misguided). Other people I have known for many years are still rather formal with me, despite dozens to hundreds of contacts.

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wish I’d done that to the git!

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you gotta know who your real friends are

Is Twitter's Ev Williams The New John Sculley?

Has there ever been a startup that’s had so much success despite itself — despite its complete lack of understanding about how people use its service?

Let’s hope for Ev’s sake that Twitter ads work better than most Twitter products. Otherwise, he might be this generation’s John Sculley, the guy who took over Apple, fired its founder, launched a bunch of dumb products, and almost killed the company.

via Is Twitter’s Ev Williams The New John Sculley?.

Caring for your online introvert

Fellow introvert Joanne McNeil on Jonathan Rauch’s classic article on introverts and what introversion might mean on the internet.

Social media drains me like a large party might. I just deactivated Facebook. And I don’t @ much on Twitter. Too often it feels like the “fog of [an extrovert's] 98-percent-content-free talk,” as Rauch put it.

Tags: introversion   Joanne McNeil   Jonathan Rauch

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Tweetdeck Adds Location Column, Integrates Foursquare

TweetDeck, the popular Adobe Air desktop app for social networks (though an HTML5 version is on the way), has now integrated Foursquare into its latest release. The move represents the latest from the startup to grab the “social dashboard” crown against the likes of Seesmic and others, although Tweetdeck seems to be heading towards a kind of “Pro User” space more than anything else.

Now, adding your Foursquare account into Tweetdeck adds a location column. This has the handy benefit that Foursquare tweets can now be filtered out of your “All Friends” twitter column. A lot of [

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Facebook, Google and Twitter: custodians of our most intimate secrets

Your digital life can be split into two parts: content and data. You know plenty about the content: that oh-so-hilarious tweet you punched out after closing time, or those delicious pictures of the new baby posted on Flickr especially for your aunt in Australia. You create this stuff, and much of the privacy argument has been over whether strangers or ex-girlfriends or even your parents should be allowed to see it without your express permission. Yet all that is a handful of dust compared to the cascades of data about yourself that you shed daily.

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Yes Folks, The Official iPhone Twitter App Is Here

We already knew it was hours if not minutes away – see our earlier report – and it’s perhaps no surprise that New Zealand gets the goods ahead of Europe and the US (a bit like New Year’s day).

Yes folks, the official Twitter app for iPhone is here, you know the one expected based on Tweetie ever since Twitter bought the company.

We expect other iPhone app stores around the world to propagate shortly.

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makes sense to me

Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won’t Help Facebook’s Privacy Problems

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, caught offering the personal data of Facebook users to a friend and calling people that trusted him with their info “dumb f**ks.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy.

Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won’t Help Facebook’s Privacy Problems.

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Facebook downplays privacy crisis meeting

Facebook has downplayed the significance of a company-wide meeting to discuss privacy issues.

The blogosphere described the meeting as a panic measure following weeks of criticism over the way it handles members’ data.

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The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking – NYTimes.com

Now this makes interesting viewing! here are the graphics in case the NYT takes the page behind a paywall

Pop quiz: Which is longer, the United States Constitution or Facebook’s Privacy Policy? If you guessed the latter, you’re right. Facebook’s Privacy Policy is 5,830 words long; the United States Constitution, without any of its amendments, is a concise 4,543 words.

The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking – NYTimes.com.

Why, despite myself, I am not leaving Facebook. Yet.

As my Facebook friends and Twitter followers know, like many others I’m angry at Facebook. I haven’t written a blog post about it because so many others have been making most of my points so eloquently (forgive me for not linking to them). But I relent, and here it is anyway, in the form of responses to the criticisms of criticism that I keep hearing:

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Six reasons to hate Facebook's new anti-privacy system,

Wondering exactly why people are so pissed about Facebook’s latest display of contempt for user privacy? The Electronic Frontier Frontier Foundation’s Kurt Opsahl has a good, short article explaining just what’s going on with the new “Connections” anti-feature:

1. Facebook will not let you share any of this information without using Connections. You cannot opt-out of Connections. If you refuse to play ball, Facebook will remove all unlinked information from your profile.

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Colleges ‘Freaking Out’ Over New Facebook Community Pages

“Social networking is a dance. You throw a party, help people get out on the floor, and get out of the damn way. People have a good time, they talk about that time you threw an awesome party, and you take credit for that couple that met there and got hitched later. Instead, Facebook has turned into that loud, obnoxious girl that spills her drinks on people and trips you when you’re trying make your move on the cute girl with the Jimi Hendrix obsession. We just want you to throw an awesome party and stay out of the [

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