On Twitter
I created the @vambenepe Twitter account a while ago to reserve the username. Yesterday I posted three tweets, so I guess I am now “on Twitter”, in case anybody cares. We’ll see where this goes....
View ArticleThere should be a word for this (Blog/Twitter edition)
I enjoyed finishing reading The Atlantic with Barbara Wallraff’s “Word Fugitives” column every month. Until earlier this year, when it was replaced with Jeffrey Goldberg’s attempts at humor. For old...
View ArticleExpanding on “twitter with a brain”
Chuck Shotton recently made a compelling case (“Twitter with a Brain“) for Twitter tools to allow the user to change the protocol endpoint. That is, instead of always going to twitter.com, you can tell...
View ArticleThere should be a word for this (Blog/Twitter edition) part 2
Back in October (see “there should be a word for this” part 1) I listed a few concepts (related to twitter and/or blogging) for which new words were needed. Since it’s such a rich field, I barely...
View ArticleThe fallacy of privacy settings
Another round of “update your Facebook privacy settings right now” messages recently swept through Twitter and blogs. As also happened a few months ago, when Facebook last modified some privacy...
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Don’t tell Facebook what you like, tell Twitter
There seems to be a lot to like technically about the announcements at Facebook’s f8 conference, especially for a Semantic Web aficionado. But I won’t have anything to do with it as a user. Along with...
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Integration patterns for social data: the Open Social Data Bus
The previous entry, “Don’t tell Facebook what you like, tell Twitter“, used Twitter and Facebook as examples to illustrate a general point about the integration of social profile data. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleURL shorteners and privacy: The Good, the Bad and the Cookie
The table below compares various URL shorteners based on how much they value service performance and the privacy of their users. Here is the short version of the reading guide: a URL shorterner which...
View ArticleOn resisting shiny objects
The previous post (compiling responses to my question on Twitter about why there seems to be more PaaS activity in public Clouds than private Clouds) is actually a slightly-edited repost of something I...
View ArticleThe war on RSS
If the lords of the Internet have their way, the days of RSS are numbered. Apple John Gruber was right, when pointing to Dan Frakes’ review of the Mail app in Mountain Lion, to highlight the fact that...
View ArticleBig Data career adviser says you should be a… Big Data analyst
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner wrote an interesting post on “the future of LinkedIn and the economic graph“. There’s a lot to like about his vision. The part about making education and career choices better...
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