Random Articles

• Web Apps, the New Lock-in, and the Opposite of Backup Over at MNteractive.com, we’ve been talking about how to close your MySpace account. Leaving sites like MySpace and Friendster should be straight forward - simply delete me. Disconnecting me from all my ‘friends’. No biggy. Not letting me do that is both a privacy issue and a Google juice problem. Sites like YouTube and Flicker
• Babe Ruth: 1330 Strike Outs - 714 Home Runs Steve is wondering how to break through the din of our post-scarcity world. I see the lowering of the barriers to publishing very much an opportunity. An opportunity to move faster, publish faster, and continue to lower the barriers for getting interesting applications out to the world. Evan says this is Obvious. The photo Steve used reminded
• “If the news is important, it will find me” “In essence, they are replacing the professional filter - reading The Washington Post, clicking on CNN.com - with a social one.” - Brian Stelter We read through each other anyway. I’ve long read major news outlets through the people I trust and often know personally. Blogs and Twitter are great for that. Sure, I run
• Twitter Tools Test so this is a test of Alex Kings Twitter Tools: post to tweet.
• Pruning the Beanstalk - Feedreaders Need to Grow With Us “Odeo will work fine for new subscribers, but as soon as you’ve been subscribed for a few months, it’s impossible to use.” - Michael Mahemoff Michael’s got an excellent point there. If you’ve following my writing, you know I have a similar problem with the 300+ subscriptions in my NetNewsWire (up from 250, up from 200,