Fred Vogelstein has an interesting article in the new edition of Wired, previewing Facebook’s full-on assault of Google for targeted advertising territory. The article makes news, and includes some great (and painfully ironic quotes) from Mark Zuckerberg in which he accuses Google of contributing to the surveillance society (Pot, Kettle, Black). The article reads like [...]
On Monday, the Harvard Business school posted a “conversation starter” study on gender differences in Twitter use. The authors found that “men have 15% more followers than women” and “an average man is almost twice as likely to follow another man than a woman.” The authors suggest, without empirical data, that men find the content [...]
Over the past few days, I’ve seen a few blog posts referencing various “studies” that claim that young people don’t use Twitter. Apparently, this is a problem.
As reported on CNET, “99 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have profiles on social networks, only 22 percent use Twitter, according to a new survey from Pace University and [...]
While I was away on vacation, the Chicago Tribune profiled Freedom:
Are your weekdays a jittery mess? Distracted by e-mail? Tempted by Facebook? Too bleary-eyed from rotating though your Internet rounds for human interaction?
… Truth is, you don’t need Fred Stutzman’s Freedom. You already own a version — it’s called free will. But Fred Stutzman’s Freedom [...]
Cross-posted to http://macfreedom.com:
I’m proud to announce Freedom v0.5 is now available for public download. This version addresses a number of issues with programs that require network access, offers greater stability, and now allows donors to turn off the request for donations you see when Freedom’s time expires.
Download the new version directly (http://macfreedom.com/wp-content/dmg/Freedom.dmg) or from [...]
Google Blog, 2009
To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we’ve begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the full profiles. We’ve also added links so it’s easy [...]
Allfacebook:
When Facebook announced the “Facebook Governance” voting back in February, Mark Zuckerberg hailed it as an “unprecedented” effort to involve users in the development of the terms of service. Almost two months later the voting has finally begun and around 260,000 individuals have voted on which terms to use. Within one week, 30 percent of [...]
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