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Dear 2010

by Bill on December 31, 2009

If you don’t mind, I would like to make a few requests of you. While I don’t wish to appear dogmatic and inflexible, and if I may be blunt, you are of absolutely no use or merit to me should you decline my requests. So if I may, here they are: – A little less [...]

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Facebook grabs FriendFeed: a speculation festival

by Bill on August 11, 2009

With just about everyone weighing in on the Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed, I thought I’d add to the noise and toss in my riveting insight (or lack thereof). First of all, I’ve no idea what it means. But then, no one else does either — there is interesting speculation, however. One of the first notions [...]

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Crotch – the tactile social network

by Bill on February 21, 2009

I’m working with a team developing a new social networking tool tentatively called Crotch. We expect to compete with Facebook and Twitter. Given the rapid growth of both, and the deep roots each has developed in a short time, you might think it’s crazy to try to compete in the same space. You would be [...]

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Facebook, content, ownership: the brouhaha

by Bill on February 19, 2009

Two thoughts on the hubbub around Facebook’s terms and conditions and the backtracking on the revised version: 1) What if Facebook users wrote their own terms and conditions and include in it an assertion that not only do they own their own content, they own Facebook? Surely that would be as valid as Facebook’s attempt [...]

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Twitter: an observation

by Bill on December 2, 2008

When I look at Twitter, I notice that of the people I follow, most “tweet” once or twice a day but a few “tweet” many times during the day. In fact, there are so many tweets I don’t look at them because there are so many. On the Web, I see the same person’s thumbnail [...]

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