The big internet shock from the other day is that Instagram was purchased by Facebook. I have mixed feelings about this. My immediate reaction is that this is bad for innovation. A large, well established company buys a small but energetic company and probably ruins what’s great about it. Then I think about examples like… Continue reading Something about Instagram and Facebook
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Vetting Facebook Status Updates
A post over at A Confederacy of Spinsters, called Your Status Update Not Welcome, inspired me to write a comment. After a couple of minutes trying to think of a concise sentence or two for the comments section of their page, I decided I needed to write a full-blown post about it. From the original… Continue reading Vetting Facebook Status Updates
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I’m a bit of a fiend when it comes to social networking. Without any real need, I pretty much sign up for every site there is. First I had to have Facebook and MySpace accounts and from there it all snowballed: Last.fm, Twitter, WordPress, Blogger, Google+… All the nonsense I could get my hands on.… Continue reading Tumblr