Facebook is/not a walled garden – Fang and me hosted group on Facebook. Here we go again: Why Facebook sucks Saturday, October 13, 2007 by Dave Winer. Another topic Scoble and I talked about today was Facebook. I said I don’t like Facebook, never have, and I finally figured out why. It’s another one of those user generated content things, only this time I’m building up an address book that I can look at, but can only do things with it that Facebook lets me do. Why exactly do I need Facebook to get inbetween me and my address book? Continue Reading…
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 3:37 pm Tagged with: Dave Winer, Facebook, Google, iphone, Online Communities, privacy, Social Media Australia, social networks, user generated content, walled garden, Yahoo!
Copied wholesale from TechCrunch because TechCrunch has all that fibre goodness your blog needs: Engadget Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap on Bogus iPhone email Michael Arrington 42 comments ยป What a day for Apple investors. The stock started off strong today on a lot of pre-market buying, despite news that Amazon will finally start competing on sales of DRM-free music. Then, whoops, at 11:49 AM EST Engadget posted saying that the iPhone and Leopard operating system launches would be seriously delayed. They based the story on an internal Apple email that was forwarded to them. The original post: Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:24 pm Tagged with: Amazon, apple, iphone, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X, Michael Arrington, operating system, USD, web 2.0
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I haven’t read anything of Stan Beer‘s in a while: Zune and Wi-Fi versus iPhone and carriers?When you hear news that a consortium that includes Microsoft, Google, HP, Dell and Intel, among others has filed to submit a wireless handheld Internet access prototype device developed by Microsoft to the Federal Communications Commission, you know something is up. When you also hear rumours that the device may be based upon a Zune then you suspect a war is brewing and it involves telcos as well. When Steve Jobs took the stage last month at Macworld to announce Apple’s relationship with Cingular, Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 7:27 am Tagged with: Barcelona, cellular telephone, convergent social networking devices, Dell, Federal Communications Commission, Google, Greg Joswiak, handheld Internet access prototype device, Intel, Internet access, Internet capability, iphone, iPod, Microsoft, mobile, mobile carrier, prototype device, social networks, staid conservative telecommunications carrier, Steve Jobs, United States, VOIP, VP iPod products, Wi-Fi, wireless Internet access space
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