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“Privacy is dead. Get over it.”
- Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy
I remember when Gmail started to run contextually relevant ads, and the first thought was, “Wow, that is some pretty impressive computational skills Google has going on over there.” But then the reality sets in that the info is being run through their servers [...]

MySpace was one the first to give people a glimpse into the success you can have when you give kids/young adults an online paintbrush and allow them to create, with minimal restrictions, whatever they want. A lot of people look at the style sheets on MySpace pages and cringe. But I’m pretty sure many [...]

I really like Oren’s article on MySpace. Oren is one of those guys that probably shouldn’t be blogging, because his advice and thoughts are worth a lot more than getting lost in the clutter of voices. Nah, just kidding, Oren should be blogging, he just needs more LinkLove.
We may wind up with an [...]

Identity Production in a Networked Culture

I would say that a considerable amount of the page views in MySpace are for reading and keeping track of comments. So will MySpace offer a comments feed? Imagine an OPML file that had you and all your friend’s comment feeds in it. We’re talking about lifetimes of saved time.

Children and young adults need to start thinking about what kind of information they are putting on their MySpace accounts. Much like Battelle said, SBC aint no Google when it comes to playing nice. The same could be said for News Corp. I am starting to think that MySpace search sucks not because they cant [...]