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Net Neutrality Is No Good
Obviously you can see why the first kind of net neutrality described above could be bad. If the service providers are controlling what content gets to us faster then they are controlling the flow of information even more. Several of these service providers also own television stations, news corporations, and so forth. If they can control the news and information we get, this has populace control written all over it. Of course that view is rather extreme but do not think for one second that that this couldn’t be used to push an agenda. Continue reading
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Tagged neil berkett, net neutrality, virgin media
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Facebook Applications: The Blessing & the Curse
It seems that Facebook applications are becoming the bane of a Facebook user’s existence. At least on Facebook anyway. Since Facebook announced their API hundreds of applications have been developed for the Facebook platform and several hundred are used on peoples profiles daily. Continue reading
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Tagged development, facebook, open social
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Death of Print News, I Don't Think So
One thing that people seem to forget is that a lot of people don’t like reading things on a screen. They like the tactile feeling of something in their hand. That black print on white(ish) paper means something to them. Continue reading
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Death of Print News, I Don’t Think So
One thing that people seem to forget is that a lot of people don’t like reading things on a screen. They like the tactile feeling of something in their hand. That black print on white(ish) paper means something to them. Continue reading
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The Web 2.0 Minority
Over the past couple of weeks I have had several conversations with co-workers and fellow geeks that I am personal friends with. That might not sound that unusual, but when you consider that, on more than several occasions I have had to explain the concept of Twitter, Digg, Mahalo, and other Web 2.0 companies and ideas, it starts to make sense why I bring this up. Continue reading
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Tagged startups, web 2.0
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Twitter Breakage This Past Weekend
This weekend Twitter had an interesting kind of break this week. The below video contains my opinions on the breakage. I’m trying to integrate video commentary into this website and this is kind of an alpha video. I plan to work on the quality of the video. Anyone have any webcam recommendations? Continue reading →