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  • Facebook critique stretches credulity

     First it was Second Life that came under a microscope of criticism from the mainstream media questioning its business value. Now it’s the turn of social networking site Facebook. If a report from Australia is to be believed, Facebook costs…

  • Understanding OpenID is not easy

    Last year, I signed up to get an OpenID. I didn’t fully understand what it could do but I did believe that it would become more important, not to mention useful, to have a means by which you could identify…

  • Maximizing junk mail from the receiver’s viewpoint

    I got sixteen individual items of junk mail through my letterbox this morning. Home furnishings, credit card offers, pizza restaurants, insurance… it goes on and on. Much of it has the pseudo-personal approach of “specially delivered to you by hand,”…

  • The case for DRM

    A disturbing but far from surprising trend reported by Reuters: Children in Europe are aware of the risks of illegal downloading, but often rationalize their act by saying that everyone — including their parents — is doing it, according to…

  • The big ban on employees accessing Facebook

    Earlier this month, in FIR #254, Shel and I discussed quite an interesting story of what one company did regarding employee access to and use of Facebook. That story, of the law firm Allen and Overy’s Facebook U-turn, is a…