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Tag Archives: Facebook
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

I just “deactivated” my Facebook account. Note they don’t call it deletion – that would imply your data is actually gone – but at least it’s better than nothing. I’m fed up of their repeated screwups with privacy. Their apparent complete lack of regard for what anyone cares to be done with their data (I [...]

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Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

I am pleased to announce the free online release of my review of the impact of the social web for 2010. This work was completed as part of a University module entitled “Social, legal and ethical aspects of engineering” (and known as SLEASE). Entitled “Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects of online Communities and Social Networks”, [...]

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Monday, February 7th, 2011

This is the iPhone app for RenRen – looks a little familiar, no?

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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Seesmic, the popular Twitter, Facebook and Buzz client previously available for Windows, Web, Android, Blackberry, and a whole pile of other platforms, has recently made its iPhone application available. Many questioned whether there would be any point in Seesmic releasing an iPhone app, with the recent news and release of Twitter for iPhone, a rebrand [...]

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Thursday, March 11th, 2010

We all know how big and how quickly Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter and the like had to scale. To do so, they had to think outside the box, and make not only wide use, but also many upgrades and contributions to countless open source software projects. It’s something we sadly something we hear very little about [...]

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