February 2010
- Buzz - Google takes their next stab at the social web and integrates status updates into gmail. Backlash takes place due to the auto follow feature which blasts everyone's private relationship details to the world. In my opinion, this was either a clumsy implementation or unscrupulous mining of personal data.
- Apple iPad - the conversation about the iPad continues. This thing is going to make a lot of people look really stupid in about a year...one way or another. Lots of discussion about Adobe, Flash and why it's not allowed on the iPad. A developer explains why it doesn't even make sense to allow Flash on the iPhone/iPad.
- Facebook Users Confused - by ReadWriteWeb's article. Internet mockery follows. Analysis and counter-analysis follows that.
- Jason Calacanis vs. SEO Book - and Google and Google's Matt Cutts ends up looking bad.
- Googlers Convicted in Italy - four Google employees were indicted last year, three of them were convicted this month, for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. They were found at fault for a video that was uploaded to YouTube...by someone else. They had no idea of its existence until someone complained, whent they promptly took it down. Google thinks this is a serious threat to how the web works. I agree.
Posted by Anthony
