Over the years I have had the unusual misfortune of having products I like and use get acquired by Facebook. Sometimes good things come out of these deals, but often they do not. Here is my brief list. Daytum A good lifetracking web app that had a really nice iOS app. At least until the […]
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An Advertising Dystopia
Today it’s getting harder and harder to escape advertising, remember when you could watch a video on any site without watching a video ad first? Modern corporate propoganda has become a finely tuned art of delivering a product that you’re more likely to want, and it could get worse. Below I’ll describe a few technologies […]
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Returning to Facebook
About a year ago I decided to leave Facebook for three primary reasons. Privacy issues. I was getting less out of the network than I was putting in. Trivializing human interaction. Through the month of October and November I’m going to re-explore those points. Perhaps the way I feel about them will have changed. While […]
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Deleting Facebook
Most people know about deactivating Facebook (and my experience without it). What they don’t know is how to permanently delete it. On a help page, hidden away, they provide a link to delete all of your Facebook data if it’s been deactivated for a few weeks. The other day I decided to take that plunge […]