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Facebook is scaring me
Yesterday I wrote that Twitter should be scared of Facebook. Today it's worse. I, as a mere user of Facebook, am seriously scared of them.
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Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
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I fear Google's control of the web
The wonder of the web is that it is not subject to the whims of chaotic corporate management.
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Why apps are not the future
I heard it first on the cover of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and again in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll , as a reminder to all that you're reading a dead medium.
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Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot
After reading a report yesterday saying that Rackspace cloud servers were a better deal than Amazon's, I decided to check it out today.
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Preparing for 25 Years
On October 7, this blog will have existed and been continually updated for 25 years.
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The Lost Apps of the 80s
In an email conversation, Ray Ozzie and I talked about all the writing tools of the 80s that didn't transiiton to the web.
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Your human-size life
In the early years of this blog I wrote a lot about the personal struggles of people who had attained financial independence only to find out that it revealed that money was not what was standing in the way of happiness. That's contrary to the message of our society, which is this:Until you're rich, you're…
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Kindle is OK
But it's summertime, and I'd rather read in the park, or on a bench looking out over the Hudson.
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Turning the Internet Off
People who don't know me , and what I've spent my career doing, will think I'm some kind of Luddite, but of course I'm anything but that.
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Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (1997)
S o Steve Jobs just shot the cloners in the head, indirectly doing the same to the growing percentage of Mac users who prefered cloned Mac systems to Apple's own. So his message to everybody was no different than it was at Day One: all I want from the rest of you is your money and your appreciation for my Art.
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How Google missed the boat
Their biggest mistake was their attitude about the rest of us.
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Why Google cares if you use your real name
Over the weekend there was a bit of hoo-hah about accounts swept off Google-Plus, because they didn't have the users' real name.
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Anywhere but Medium
Last night I posted a tweet: "Next time you want to post an essay to Medium, do the open web a favor and post it elsewhere. Anywhere. Tumblr. WordPress.com." If I had more space I would have added Pastebin or Blogger. Really anywhere but Medium. I didn't have room to explain, but people asked, so here's…
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My Hacker News firehose
I love Hacker News , and appreciate that they have a feed for the stories that make it to the front page. But I want more. I want to get a stream of stories, as they are submitted. For that I'd need a feed that they don't have.
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Ageism is becoming an issue for me
By ageism, I mean people saying that my age makes me less intelligent, informed, clued, aware, whatever. It's never rational, not part of an intelligent discussion. I can't probe the people to find out what they mean. I assume they're expressing some frustration and projecting it on me.
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Code as photo-op
There's an article in today's NY Times about a group of four NYU comp sci students who are embarking on a great adventure to create a decentralized version of Facebook, where the data is under the user's control.
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Google did something seriously wrong
Here's what happened. When Google rolled out Buzz last week they activated an unknown number of users and chose people for them to follow automatically based on who they email most frequently with. Presumably these people had to also be on Gmail. And the list of people you follow is public. Therefore the list of…
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In a weird sneaker-net way we have implemented a human DNS
Joe Lieberman calls Amazon to say they should cut them off. Amazon cuts them off, then says the Lieberman call had nothing to do with it. We have no reason to doubt Amazon. It's consistent with their philosophy of not taking sides in political battles. Still I wish Amazon, who I'm a big fan of, had stood with them…
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If you find yourself competing with the Internet, find a way out.
In October 1994, at the dawn of blogging, I wrote a piece that actually shook the software world. At the time, the idea of a mere software developer expressing an opinion in public, unedited, in his own words, without the help of a major publication, was unheard of. It had never happened.
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Soon it will be time to start over, again
A new generation of young techies comes along, takes a look at the current stack, finds it too daunting (rightly so) and decides to start over from scratch. They find that they can make things happen that the previous generation couldn't cause they were so mired in the complexity of the systems they had built. The new…
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Poor Man's Email?
One of my favorite blogsports for the last couple of years is pondering what Twitter is. Here are some of the things I've come up with:
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How I made over $2 million with this blog
On Twitter early this morning I said something provocative . "I've made over $2 million from my blog and Dan thinks blogs can't make money. He needs to get out of the box more often."