Arbitrary censorship and unevenly applied rules at Facebook and Smugmug
When Facebook logged me out everywhere, including social networks like Klout, Kred, Empire Avenue, and Facebook feeds into other systems, the amount of hysteria caused by automated connections, and the Facebook SSO sign on multiple sites failed
Designing Terms Of Service Is As Important As Designing A Product
Dropbox revised their Terms of Service (TOS) over the long weekend. That triggered a flurry of activities on Twitter. Dave Winer even deleted his Dropbox account saying that he would revisit it once the dust settles. A lot of people concluded that there’s nothing wrong in the new TOS and that people are simply overreacting. [...]
Empire Avenue p0wns you
There’s been a bit of buzz about Empire Avenue these days.Quite a few of my Twitter friends have signed up for it, one of who is Bernd Nurnberger. I had a conversation with him after he sent me an invite to join Empire Avenue. I had my doubts about Empire Avenue, especially finding the “what’s [...]
APIs, TOS, and building a hooked web
Let me throw some things against the wall and see if anything sticks. This week I confirmed Chris Messina (of OAuth, and now Activity Streams fame) and Jeff Lindsay (who gave an awesome talk on Webhooks last year) to speak at Gluecon. Simultaneously, I’ve been reading blog posts like this — where the punch-line is: [...]
100,000 Lucky Google Wave Beta Testers
Google is rolling out Google Wave today, and while it is unlikely that I’ll get an invite, I can still be remarkably interested in what could be a product that will solve some of the problems that I see in how to develop smaller communities of interests around colleges, friends, and others that are a [...]
Plain English, Transparent TOS, Please
Image via Wikipedia I started this as a comment to Krish’s post on the mental shift SaaS brings about, then realized I should make it a post on it’s own right: short, but important. Krish reflects on the recent Wall Street Journal: Do You Know Where Your Data Are?, and in his response mostly deals [...]
