Via Daring Fireball, a pretty smart analysis of Apple’s so-called “anti-competitive” moves in restricting third-party advertisers accessing user data for their analytics.
Fri 11 Jun 2010
Via Daring Fireball, a pretty smart analysis of Apple’s so-called “anti-competitive” moves in restricting third-party advertisers accessing user data for their analytics.
Sat 27 Feb 2010
Just an FYI. Clicking “Turn off Buzz” in Gmail doesn’t turn off your profile. It just turns off your own access to it in Gmail. I just discovered this while using Google on my iPhone. The Buzz icon is still sitting atop the page, I can post via my app and now it keeps asking for my location.
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Read the whole thing (it’s not much longer.)
Google may be about to find out that it doesn’t take an awful lot to change our perceptions from positive to negative. Actions and themes that might have been ignored before take on a new and troubling significance.
Sun 14 Feb 2010
I don’t see how people could ever have thought it wasn’t perfect,” said Google marketing marketer Todd Jackson. “We’ve used it in-house for ages, and our test group of white male engineers all working inside a single corporation think it’s the best thing ever! So of course we didn’t see the need for any user testing or opt-in.
Tue 15 Dec 2009
Valleywag is frequently maddeningly trivial and stupid, but they’re doing good journalism on the 2009 Facebook privacy clusterfuck story.
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