For a site that just a few years ago was exclusively the domain of college students, Facebook has experienced phenomenal growth to the point where it now counts 300 million users as members – roughly the population of the United States. Even better for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, investors, and potential future shareholders, the world’s [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Update: Facebook is popular. Like 300 million users popular.
Published by September 16th, 2009 in Social Networking. 2 Comments“Traditional” reality too boring? Five mind-blowing applications of augmented reality
Published by September 15th, 2009 in Advertising and Augmented Reality. 0 CommentsIn William Gibson’s 2007 novel Spook Country, artist/programmers create massive virtual art exhibits tied to real-world locations. These “installments” are only visible through GPS-enabled visors that access the data via the Internet and then display the information to the wearer. One artist places virtual bodies at sites where historical figures were murdered or committed suicide; [...]
Google makes it easy to move data out of Google products
Published by September 14th, 2009 in Google and Social Media. 0 CommentsHot on the heels of Twitter affirming that yes, you own your tweets, some Chicago Google engineers have launched “The Data Liberation Front,” with the goal of making it simple to move your data in and out of Google products (Blogger, Gmail, and more, with additional services coming soon). Enhancing options for data portability is [...]
All your tweets (are) belong to you
Published by September 11th, 2009 in Microblogging, Social Media and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsI normally don’t may much attention to Web site terms of service. Usually it’s a race to get to the bottom of the terms so I can click the “agree” button and get started with whatever I’m doing. With Twitter’s TOS, however, I was glad to see they clarified the issue of “who owns your [...]
