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Comment on A better design for Twitter retweets by JPB

JPB — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:21:03 +0000

All the metadata (D @ #) should be removed from the tweet to give more space and make it more readable.
We don’t write emails all in one text area

Comment on The Three Economies of online currency by sebastian

sebastian — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:44:21 +0000

Oh dear Alistair, I promise I’m going to blog about this. It fits in an recurring idea I have for a couple of years now.

When you say: “What about reputation insurance, for example?” I think you went to subtle because, if reputation stops being an externality (i.e.: it becomes monetizable) the system will first of anything, try to put taxes on it. I know it sounds strange but is true that it’s a ramification of the idea.

Let’s for a moment say that a better system includes reputation in the economy. Then we should say that today we have an oversimplified system. In this oversimplified system, the reputation damage is what our current judicial system understands as moral claims or moral damage.

The judicial system is the first in trying to put a price to everything because justice is understood as compensation and our society is unfortunately very money driven.

In any case, treating reputation as a kind of capital is an attitude that I endorse.

Comment on The perils of inadvertent sharing by Steve Shah

Steve Shah — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:24:21 +0000

Actually, it’s kind of unfortunate. I’ve long assumed that there is no such thing as “family-only” sharing on the web simply because (1) It’s a PITA to keep track of the relationships, (2) I might be able to navigate those settings, but the rest of my family can’t. The republish factor is significant.

The result? I assume everything is on the record, forever archived in cache.google.com amongst others. For professionals in an industry, that means you’re “on the job” even when you share birthday party pics for family to see over the weekend.

Comment on The perils of inadvertent sharing by Lori MacVittie

Lori MacVittie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:00:26 +0000

A wonderful reminder, too, of why it’s so difficult to separate “personal” and “business” across Web 2.0.

And let’s not forget that information isn’t the only thing that’s potentially propagated via this level of interconnectedness: “The Web 2.0 Botnet: Twisting Twitter and Automated Collaboration” I am waiting. It hasn’t happened yet but it will and when it does…look out. If miscreants can leverage the power of our connectedness, we could be in serious trouble.

Lori

Comment on The perils of inadvertent sharing by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:36:58 +0000

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Comment on The perils of inadvertent sharing by Adam Nelson

Adam Nelson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:39:50 +0000

Don’t forget the first rule of the Internet: ‘Presume everything put onto the Internet is available publicly and attributable.’

Comment on Rogers takes Android users off the air by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:49:24 +0000

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Comment on Rogers takes Android users off the air by CobWEBs Daily Edition: Rogers Canada show why Ben Parr is blowing smoke out his ass - SeanPAune.com

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:12:13 +0000

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Comment on Rogers takes Android users off the air by Mark Cathcart

Mark Cathcart — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:42:03 +0000

So how are Rogers currently handing roaming users from outside the country?

I had a HTC phone I bought in Amsterdam airport, full list price, it was unlocked. I’ve used it for a couple of years with a pre-pay UK SIM card from the Three.co.uk network, works great for data and voice. My normal contract is with US AT&T but that was SIM only.

When ever I was in Toronto I was sure I was using Rogers with my HTC Touch Pro phone and my AT&T Data contract. The more I hear about the draconian Rogers network, the less I think the US Cell companies suck, but they really do, so that makes Rogers much worse.

Comment on StartupCamp 5 – Another bustling Montréal tech event by Alex Bowyer

Alex Bowyer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:57:51 +0000

I would say

1) Get involved with Montreal Tech Watch (http://montrealtechwatch.com/) – who hold regular startup networking events

2) Follow some montreal tech folks on twitter (that’s how I heard about it). Feel free to look at my Twitter followed list for some ideas (I am @alexbfree) or just search on Montreal or MTL

Hope this helps
Alex Bowyer