Rubénerd :)

Saturday 24th July 2010

SBS asking the tough questions

  1. Nah. Unless they started sending me cupcakes.
  2. Their decision, not ours.

Tuesday 25th May 2010

#CloudSourceSG, SalesForce in Singapore

Raffles City Convention Centre sign for CloudSourceSG

I must admit a certain level of professional ignorance when it comes to cloud computing; much of my own commentary on the subject has been limited to security problems and my general anger with the way sites like Facebook have abused their users. It was refreshing to see some good stuff :).

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Friday 14th May 2010

14th of May is Kill Your Facebook Day

In response to the continual antics of Zuckerberg and Co, today was the International Kill Your Facebook Day (or variations upon that theme).

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Tuesday 04th May 2010

Does Facebook sell me with a pretty bow?

Icon from the Tango Desktop project

Soylent Greenbes: You are not Facebook’s customer. You are the product that they sell to their real customers — advertisers. Forget this at your peril.

Alas, forgetting still doesn’t give you the ability to permanently delete your account and have Facebook forget you. Which is a shame because in Soviet Russia, Facebook forgets you.

Friday 23rd April 2010

Facebook third parties and inconvenient privacy

I know I’ve been saying this repeatedly for years now, but it seems just when Facebook does something interesting, they take two steps back in privacy in the same pen stroke. I’m saving my worrying out loud about Facebook’s new Like button for another post, this one has to do with (yet another!) disturbing policy change.

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Wednesday 07th April 2010

Facebook iTunes integration… why?

MacRumors, 41 Positives; 166 Negatives

In a worrying trend, it seems Apple will be furthering Facebook integration this time with iTunes. MacRumours is hardly an impartial source on such matters, but that ratio above doesn’t look too favourable.

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Tuesday 30th March 2010

Uh oh, Facebook pre-approved third-party sites

Facebook’s constant terms of service changes almost seem designed to test the limits of what they can get away with, much like Microsoft in the 1990s. This is the creepiest part of their proposed privacy policy:

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Tuesday 02nd March 2010

Do I just not get Facebook irony?

Not sure what’s scarier, the fact these messages exist for me to get sent in the first place, or that people who know me (or have at least added me on Facebook) think I’d be receptive to them.

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Saturday 21st November 2009

Wait, FriendFeed still exists?

FriendFeed

Hot on the heels of my comment on someone’s tweet about Facebook (wow, wasn’t that an internet sentence) one of my friend CalgaryGuru’s tweets got me thinking about FriendFeed.

Just pulled Facebook out of my FriendFeed… Stuff I post on FB doesn’t always make sense as a twitter tweet. Besides, FF is depricated.

(emphasis added)

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Friday 20th November 2009

Facebook's reputation erosion?

@jowyang commenting on #smba:

Many attendees say they don’t trust Facebook. Concerned about how their data is used, permissions, and connecting personal with work

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