Dec 11, 2010 | bruceb, Facebook, web_services
I’m starting to think this social networking stuff has a future, by gum. I’m joining the 21st century. Visit the official Bruceb Consulting Facebook page! Push the Like button! At the moment it’s nothing more than recycled articles from Bruceb News and offensive...
Oct 17, 2010 | Facebook, humor, Internet, video
Ze Frank has been doing interesting online experiments for almost ten years. He delivered a talk about some of his projects to a TED conference a few months ago; if you can find 20 minutes to watch it, you might come out feeling a little better about community and...
Jul 26, 2010 | Facebook, Internet, security, web_services
When I joined Facebook, I was asked if Facebook could rummage through my Outlook address book looking for a match with other Facebook users. I politely responded, no, absolutely not, thank you very much, and I thought that was the end of it. My Facebook page fired up...
Jul 8, 2010 | Facebook, Internet, web_services
If you’re over 35, you will be secretly relieved by David Pogue’s helpful column in today’s New York Times. Bless his heart – he’s written concise, easy-to-understand explanations of the hot social networking services that everybody assumes you understand. (Apparently...
May 20, 2010 | Facebook, Google, mail, Microsoft, mobile, Outlook, SBS, web_services, Windows Live
It’s rare now to find traditional POP3 email accounts, where messages are downloaded to a single computer and are only accessible at that computer. We move between different computers freely (home/work/laptop/netbook) and want our mail to be available on all of them....
May 6, 2010 | business, Facebook, Internet, security, web_services
In the golden glow of hindsight, there was a wonderful time when big companies would do things that were good for their customers because that was likely to be the most profitable choice, and because it was the right thing to do. Big companies still consider doing...