Facebook has recently been making big changes, such as offering APIs and experimenting with privacy. Some of these changes have been met with positive feedback, and others with hostility, but it is obvious from these recent experiments that they are testing new waters. Probably the biggest change they have proposed though is opening registration toContinue reading “Facebook opens registration”
Author Archives: Cameron Marlow
YouTube adds backlinks
Last week YouTube released a new player along with a few other features across the site (for some reason they have yet to blog about these changes). Personally I liked the look and feel of their old player more, but that is beside the point: the new interface exposes the most popular off-site links toContinue reading “YouTube adds backlinks”
MIT 9/11 Hack
The fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001 was much more respectful than I expected. It seemed that most people remembered the day with a somber reverence that was personal to their experience. One memorial that struck a chord in me took place at MIT: MIT 9/11 Hack: fire truck on the Great Dome (photo FrançoisContinue reading “MIT 9/11 Hack”
Myspace graffiti
While walking through the streets of Florence, we stumbled upon a perplexing piece of graffiti: I’m sure people have written about MySpace and tagging, but this is absurd. How did AndyG, a 25 year old hip hop artist from Orange County (or a fan) decide to promote his music on an ancient building in Florence?Continue reading “Myspace graffiti”
Weird Al – White and Nerdy
Weird Al has a way of coming out of nowhere and grabbing the attention of a generation of nerds, well, just about once per generation of nerds. For me it was Michael Jackson (video), for some it was Nirvana (video), and maybe even The Kinks for a few. There is something beatuiful about the nerdificationContinue reading “Weird Al – White and Nerdy”
Wikipedia to overtake porn
It’s a well-known fact that pornography drives the development of technology. Whether you’re talking about the Internet, VHS, or papyrus, porn pushed the envelope and paid the way for the development of the underlying media. Well, I hate to admit it, but it appears that pr0n is moving on: As this Google trend clearly shows,Continue reading “Wikipedia to overtake porn”
Privacy and transparency
Recently Facebook has introduced a few feature which has raised a lot of attention among users and bloggers. This piece of the system, called the News Feed shows you activity of your contacts within Facebook. If your friend posts to their blog, uploads a photo, attends an event or changes almost anything in their profile,Continue reading “Privacy and transparency”
HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy
Today I’m presenting a paper I coauthored with Mor Naaman, Marc Davis and danah boyd entitled “HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead.” It’s possibly the least memorable title in ACM history, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. This publication is a position paper, and as such is focused onContinue reading “HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy”
Intercontinental Internet (Boeing Connexion)
I am on my way to Denmark for Hypertext ’06 and have the privilege of riding on Scandinavian Airlines. I was told by a few people that the seats offered more legroom and that the overhead bins were almost unreachable (thank you tall Scandanavian peoples). These are but mere urband legends, but one story IContinue reading “Intercontinental Internet (Boeing Connexion)”
Snakes out of the plane
Sure, I’ve got tickets to the 10pm showing of Snakes on a Plane tonight. With the help of Justin, we might be eating some dips and pretzles off of a blueprint-covered table (snacks on a plan). I’ve been impressed with all of the quite-savvy marketing done on behalf of the producers thus far, but IContinue reading “Snakes out of the plane”
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