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Page Rage: Why Twitter Doesn’t Work Better on Android

January 26, 2012

Page Rage: Why Twitter Doesn’t Work Better on Android: A well-placed source tells us that Google’s Android team was supposed to meet with Twitter at CES about how to make Twitter work better on Android. Then, the Search Plus Your World controversy began. Eric Schmidt claimedthat Google couldn’t index Twitter and Facebook properly because those [...]

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The real problem with Google TV

November 11, 2011

It looks like Logitech is out of the Google TV market: The mistake, plus “operational miscues in EMEA” cost the company “well over $100M in operating profits.” De Luca did throw Google a bone by saying that he believes Google TV will have a chance sometime in the future, but it would be a “grandchild [...]

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Unhappy with social network real name policies? Do it yourself

August 22, 2011

Hugh MacLeod: And as I’ve said many times over the years, Web 2.0 IS ALL ABOUT personal sovereignty. About using media to do something meaningful, WITHOUT someone else giving you permission first, without having to rely on anyone else’s resources, authority and money. Self-sufficiency. Exactly.i.e. not waiting for the green light. In the blogosphere, the [...]

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Facebook blocking all bit.ly links? UPDATE: Nope.

April 22, 2010
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UPDATE: And it’s fixed. Looks like it was a short-term glitch in the Facebook matrix. – It appears that Facebook has decided that all links using popular link-shortener bit.ly are potentially dangerous – and has blocked them. I’ve tried this with a number of bit.ly URLs, and it appears to be for everything, not just [...]

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Sergey Brin on Google Buzz

February 10, 2010
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Sergey Brin On His Six Months Using Google Buzz: “Extracting signal from noise is one of our core competencies, it’s one of the key things we do in our web search product every day. And I think that now peoples’ personal communications are getting to be on a scale comparable to that of web search, [...]

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Kiwi: The best Mac Twitter client yet

February 8, 2010
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As you’ll know if you follow me or this blog on Twitter, I’me a voracious Twitterer. I also can’t stand Adobe Air applications, which means that my options for Twitter applications are somewhat limited. There’s a few around, of course. Tweetie is good, but hasn’t been developed for a little while and lacks support for [...]

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If people don’t want journalism, we have no right to make them have it

December 3, 2009

I’ve been partially watching, partially taking part in a debate on Twitter over the future of news (what else?). It began with a tweet from John Robinson: “Tired of the media obsession with Tiger? Me too. Yet people are fascinated with it. Serve the audience or ignore ‘em & move on?” I’m bored of Tiger [...]

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A short post on the conceit at the heart of Google ChromeOS

November 20, 2009

One of the prime reasons for the success of Twitter is that it has never been reliant on a single interface. Because it has cleverly exposed everything via rich APIs, it has effectively allowed a hundred interfaces to blossom. Don’t like the way that the web interface now handles retweets? Wait a few weeks and [...]

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Mark Cuban sums up why Rupert Murdoch doesn’t care about Google

November 9, 2009

In the comments to his points on why ““Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart = Twitter has changed it all“, Mark Cuban gives the best summary about why all the traffic that Google brings to News Corp isn’t worth diddly: “[News Corp] have tons of unsold inventory of ads right now. They dont need [...]

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Are your friends a filter or a firehose? Some musings on Twitter and FriendFeed

May 20, 2009

I was playing around with FriendFeed – again – and not seeing the point – again, when a thought came to me which I think encapsulates why I don’t get on with it, and why, in fact, I’ll never get on with it. To start with, consider that social networks like FriendFeed, Twitter and Facebook [...]

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