Tag Archives: facebook

O’Reilly Radar – The end of social

The more we share the less value each piece of infor­ma­tion has to the peo­ple (but not the sys­tems) that we share to.

December 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Culture, Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Scripting News – Facebook is scaring me

Count me in the group of peo­ple now stay­ing logged out of Face­book by default.

September 24, 2011 – 5:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Numair Faraz – I was once a Facebook fool

Trust­ing your busi­ness to another busi­ness is gen­er­ally not a good idea, but trust­ing Face­book is never a good idea.

September 24, 2011 – 10:46 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts | Tagged , , | Comments Off

guardian.co.uk – Networks are not always revolutionary

Fair point I think, hav­ing the net­work or hav­ing fame isn’t enough to guar­an­tee suc­cess but it does help.

July 17, 2011 – 4:36 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Communication, Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Facebook Engineering Blog – Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project

The point is to demon­strate Face­book is work­ing at a high scale much like Google and they aren’t open­ing up any­thing that actu­ally makes them their real money.

April 9, 2011 – 5:57 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

ZDNet – Students suspended, expelled over Facebook posts

The school shouldn’t have a right to dic­tate what stu­dents due in the pri­vacy of their online accounts or in their free time.

March 6, 2011 – 12:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – American Medical Response Settles Facebook Firing Case

Good deci­sion employ­ees should be able to com­ment in their pri­vate off time as pub­licly as they wish about their com­pany (minus releas­ing trade secrets and such).

February 10, 2011 – 9:43 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off