Data Portability is a big issue these days with the Facebook Google thing about Friend Connect (see TechCrunch).
The Indian government is happy about Google:
See TechCrunch about Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man.
Sorry for the lame joke!
I just couldn't resist.
Read Michael Krigsman if you want to know whether you are a bad CIO.
But what if you don't know whether you're a CIO at all, read this.
New social API Friend Connect from Google (see Garett Rogers)
Robert Scoble tried it (see TechCrunch a couple of day ago).
Register writes (seen through Steve O'Hear):
Many social networking cheerleaders see this type of business as their own AdWords goldmine, while failing to appreciate that a general ongoing interest in “sports” is nowhere near as valuable to marketeers as a Google search on a particular day for “Adidas football boots”.
It seems, making money out of your virtual friends is not too easy.
See on TechCrunch: Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers
Is a new MacGyver Film In The Works (Slashdot)?
(Update: After thinking one night I've thrown the last sentence about Obama and Clinton out. No political reasons. It was just not funny.)
The Emergency Gillmor Gang was great. I liked especially Michael Arrington (as always). But while I was listening to him I wanted to say him that there has to be at least one company not being in the ad business.
The new Microsoft
Facebook is just for fun (see new chart from FlowingData, seen through TechCrunch)
Speaking of Yahoo (now that Microsoft has walked away, see TechCrunch). I've never understood Yahoo. What is it? Is it advertising, is it media, search, mail, ...?
Do you remember the Peanut Butter Manifesto (see WSJ)?
Thank god the early adopter phase on Twitter is over (see Scobleizer and TechCrunch).
UPDATE: There is a typo in the title of this post (thank you omeran). But I do not correct it, as it would change the permalink.
Facebook is only worth $ 9 Billion (see TechCrunch).
UPDATE: Thank you eeyore (see comments)! I made a big mistake and wrote "Captures" instead of "CAPTCHAs" (how stupid can one be?). Sorry. I've just corrected it preliminary.
(In my last CAPTCHA related cartoon, I've written it correctly ;)
See Slashdot about next-generation CAPTCHAs.
See Joe McKendrick and Dana Gardner about SOA and WOA.
Jason Calacanis on the first Gillmor Gang: "You cannot take your followers with you"
The real Gillmor Gang is back.
I really love it!!! So I thought that would be a great opportunity for a new episode of the Podnoses.
They love the Gillmor Gang to: See here and here and here.
Apple did not get a lot of new friends with it's we-know-better-that-you-need-Safari strategy. It has climbed down a bit (see Wired).
Even though a world where Apple wants to install it's OS on every machine is far away (as the Psystar story proves, see Paul Murphy) I'm looking forward to it.
