I just took a look at twitter’s revised terms of service. I posted the my feedback using the feedback link, but I’d thought I’d also post it in my blog for all to see (and respond to):
We both own my content
Given your legal language below, twitter effectively jointly "owns" my content. In other words, [...]
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Twitter and I Both Own My Content
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: intellectual property · law · social networks
Zemanta
June 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I’m trying our Zemanta, an add on to Windows Live Writer. Zemanta is supposedly a semantic web application that automagically enriches your blog posts with suggested links, tags, related articles, pictures, etc.
For example, if I type the phrase mars lander, Zemanta will automatically do wonderful things. Well it’s supposed to do amazing things, but I [...]
Tags: about this blog · semantics · social networks
Would you drop 10 friends for a hamburger?
January 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments
Has social software really led us to this? According to the NY Times Bits blog, nearly 234,000 facebookers were defriended by their so-called friends looking to score a free hamburger. Burger King ran a promotion on Facebook that gave someone a coupon for a free hamburger if they would drop 10 friends. Harsh but hilarious.
Facebook [...]
Tags: fun · social networks
How to move conversations from email to blogs…
January 15th, 2009 · 9 Comments
A colleague of mine was bemoaning the fact that despite the fact he had blogged on a particular topic, an internal Gartner email thread sprung up on the same topic instead of in the comments on his post. This despite the fact that he sent an email to the thread mentioning the post. But all [...]
Tags: gartner · social networks
Who Killed the Blogosphere? No One. But Nick Carr Loves to Draw a Crowd
November 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments
As usual, Nick Carr loves the “poke in the eye” headline (”IT Doesn’t Matter Anymore”, “The Big Switch”) paired with rather prosaic analysis. He’s at it again with Who Killed the Blogosphere. His catalyst is the recent article in the Economist on the mainstreaming of the blogosphere, Oh Grow Up. (See how Nick takes a [...]
Tags: social networks
Less is More — Especially in Social Interactions
October 2nd, 2008 · 13 Comments
My colleague Anthony Bradley posted a thoughtful response to my post Web 2.0: Now with Fewer Features. First he wonders why I didn’t mention Gall’s Law. Well, If I were to cite a law it would be Sowa’s Law, which I sometimes refer to as Sowa’s Corollary to Gall’s Law:
Whenever a major organization develops a new [...]
Tags: simplicity · social networks