Facebook’s received a lot of attention in the three days since I posted about their use of users’ profile pictures in ads. Numerous blogs have covered the story since, including both DownloadSquad and Mashable, which invariably led to enough of a ruckus that Facebook felt inclined to address the matter. David Swain, of the Product [...]
I received a message in Skype today, it went a little something like this: Let’s be honest, Skype is a great service with a valuable chat system built into it, but sometimes it kind of sucks. There’s just no better way to put it, but griping about Skype in general could take pages, so we’re [...]
[UPDATE]: Facebook has since responded to me regarding this issue, see that post for updates. Image: Culture Smith Consulting “Peter” in this case is the Facebook user logged in to his account. The woman in the “Hot Singles” ad is his own wife. According to Facebook, these ads “respect all privacy rules.” Personally, I think [...]
I know it’s silly, I’m not a fool, but that doesn’t stop the little kid in me from getting excited over this. There are few things I can commend NASA for these days, and this is one of them. It brings back memories of visiting a national lab, or watching Nova on PBS. It’s the [...]
As an early first addendum to the Primer on Twitter, I need to talk about #hashtags. There is a big problem with their misuse, and it’s only getting worse. Notice I did not say “abuse” of #hashtags. People play with fake #hashtags all the time. Suffice to say there is no harm in tweeting #hi5, [...]
For some strange reason, Twitter refuses to write a simple primer on how to use their service. It’d be so simple to make it the first page users see once they’ve made a new account, and yet here we are, with millions of people annoying the crap out of me with constant, relentless abuse of [...]