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And that is why Google Wave is, and will continue to be, a flop

01.12.2010
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Gina Trapani, probably the greatest cheerleader for Google Wave’s success, today starts off a post about Wave, titled Frequently Asked Questions about Google Wave, with this very insightful sentence:
“Even folks usually bullish about new technology still don’t understand what they can use Wave for, how to sell it to their friends and co-workers so they [...]

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#fightspam

11.29.2009
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Short link for this post: http://ck4.us/3y/ Tweet it!
I hate spam. I hate stupid, pointless DMs inviting me to join in some stupid game that I don’t have time for with a link acting as Twitter’s version of the much-hated yet-continually-widespread forwarded email.
Today, I decided to take matters into my own hands. From now on whenever [...]

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Twitter’s new retweet feature is dumb and (mostly) useless

11.17.2009
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I finally got the new retweet feature turned on on my Twitter account today, and unlike Twitter lists, I find this to be a horribly designed addition. For example, take a look at this:

How does this help me? Why is there no information telling me which one of the people I follow retweeted this guythe [...]

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Lessig calls it quits

08.20.2009

I always hate hearing when bloggers whom I read decide to throw in the towel and quit blogging. They always have their reasons, which are most likely very valid for them, but sitting here, comfortably removed from their actual offline lives, I always think it a mistake.
Today, Lawrence Lessig threw in the towel. He [...]

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Bye-bye, FriendFeed! See you in Facebook

08.10.2009
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Everyone’s third most popular status update and conversation platform, FriendFeed, is being acquired by the second (or first, depending upon who you ask): Facebook. (More details can be found over on Obsessable). Facebook had already been mimicking some of FriendFeed’s features in its stream of updates, so the move makes sense. As FriendFeed never managed [...]

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