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Apple and Google: A Lovers' Quarrel. - July 29th, 2009

Recently, I posted about the kibosh Apple put on Google’s Voice app for the iPhone, leaving it a web-app like Latitude. It turns out, Latitude itself was also meant to have its own native app, which was summarily put to death as Voice’s was. I’m seeing a great deal of ranting and raving about AT&T’s [...]

Tags: apple, at&t, google, iphone, latitude, voice, web
Posted in apple, google

 

Facebook: "Misleading Rumors" About Ads - July 29th, 2009

Sometime recently this message began popping up whenever a user visits the Facebook Ads section of their Facebook Privacy Settings. It’s dressed up to be some sort of reassurance to paranoid individuals, but to me it looks like a blatant insult to anyone aware of the original issue, as well as a statement calling myself [...]

Tags: facebook, fail, privacy, web
Posted in fail, news, social-networking

 

[Updated] AT&T Picks a Fight… With 4chan - July 27th, 2009

It’s hard to say at this point exactly what the brass at AT&T were thinking. Apparently they’ve decided the best reaction to DDoS attacks targeting 4chan is to completely block access to the site’s affected boards. The move affects users on their landline networks only. I don’t think it’s necessary to go into too much [...]

Tags: 4chan, anonymous, at&t, censorship, ddos, fail, web
Posted in fail, news

 

Google Wave: Nuff Said. - July 22nd, 2009

I’m not about to lie to you. Google Wave gets me so excited that I feel like a schoolgirl. I’ve never even been a schoolgirl before, so that’s an odd feeling. Wave’s like that. So it’s not difficult to imagine how giddy I was when Mashable posted about Google’s surprise blog update that actually named [...]

Tags: digg, email, facebook, gmail, google, hotmail, microsoft, twitter, wave, web
Posted in google, news

 

[UPDATED] Digg Hijacking Links, Diggbar Illegitimate - July 19th, 2009

[UPDATE]: Earlier today (Tues., 21 July), Jay Adelson posted an official statement on Digg’s blog detailing the company’s position on the diggbar issue. It reads as follows: Hey everyone, I wanted to clear up some confusion created over the past couple of days surrounding the DiggBar, specifically how Digg short URLs work. As we’ve stated [...]

Tags: ads, digg, fail, twitter, web
Posted in fail, news, social-media

 

Facebook's Response to Uproar Over Ads - July 18th, 2009

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 [...]

Tags: ads, facebook, fail, TOS, web
Posted in fail, news, social-media, social-networking

 

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