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How Facebook Apps Can Compromise Your Privacy, & How to Fix (Maybe)

I never liked Facebook, and I still don’t, which is why I don’t use it much. My main gripe has always been its badly designed interface which always leaves me confused about where to look and what to do.
But now I have an even bigger gripe about Facebook: How it compromises your privacy via its [...]

Experiment: Great Live Event Coverage for Hire. What do you think?

As I mentioned in my previous post, today I’m liveblogging and tweeting a daylong Las Vegas event by Metzger Associates: Social Media for Executives. It’s a small event for a select group of executives representing several types of companies.
I’m doing this as a pilot test for a new professional service I’d like to start offering: [...]

Why blocking news aggregators is dumb and won’t work

Mark Cuban: This is your media on crack. Any questions?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife

The apparent crack epidemic sweeping the executive suites of media organizations across the U.S. has claimed another victim.
Mark Cuban loves the news business. Over the years he’s done and said some smart things in media. But on his blog a few [...]

Safari iPhone bookmarklets: Clunky setup, but very useful

iPhone apps are cool, but sometimes bookmarklets are helpful, too. (Image by Victor Svensson via Flickr)

As an avid iPhone user, I love my apps! I use several of them daily, including Omnifocus, GroceryZen, Twittelator Pro, Google Mobile, iBART, and Google Maps.
Apps are not enough, however. First of all, some online services I use (like Gruvr [...]