I don’t know about Gawker’s headline, but this article goes through some old chat logs to show that Zuck might be a sleaze ball.
On developing ConnectU, a similar project, alongside Facebook:
Mark and this friend also had the following IM exchange about how Mark planned to resolve the competing projects: [...]
I think it’s not as important as it’s made out to be.
Windows Email Software
You might think Outlook, or maybe Thunderbird, but instead you get:
Operating System Company
Surely Microsoft would be at the top of the list, right?
Really Awesome Music To Dance To
!!! doesn’t come up, neither does Crazy P (the UK’s best kept secret, btw)
Incredibly cheap [...]
Google knows more about you than the NSA, and has recently shown that it doesn’t give a hoot about your privacy. The company has gotten too big, and has turned into just another corporation trying to maximize its assets—and those assets are you. Who’s to say Google won’t progressively loosen its privacy controls [...]
The buzz is that the Kindle will die after the iPad is released. I’m not so sure. I think there might be room for both, simply because I think the iPad will not be a good reading device.
I don’t know that for sure, but I do know what it’s like to read long articles on [...]
This just in…
Go away! Baitin’!
I don’t think Facebook sucks, although Toxic Culture thinks it does:
My beef with Facebook isn’t really that the site is run by content-stealing jerks…And has nothing to do with this or the fact that it is probably some DARPA project. And I don’t mind that it encourages narcissism. And this is not about [...]
I don’t think Facebook would ever charge, at least in the immediate future. They have plenty of investment capital, they’re bringing in money with advertising. The business model (is there a business model?) relies on getting as many people in to view advertisements. Charging for FB would reduce that number. There’s no reason for them [...]
There are a lot of dumb, cheap, funny videos on the Internet, but once in a while you see one that resonates with you. The latest one for me is Buddy, The Singing Dog.
I have a soft spot for singing/howling dogs, but what’s more here is it’s clear to me that Buddy is (or was) [...]
I got a catalog for the local community college. Let’s expand our minds!
Intro To Internet Development
Internet development focused on Javascript and written with notepad. Alternative title for this course was Torture 101.
Convention / Meeting / Expo Management
Get in today…because when the tradeshows die out the course is gone.
Accounting Micro Applications
Accounting and finance is more important [...]
If you make forms on the web and haven’t seen what’s coming in HTML5, read this. You’ll get excited.
Things you’ll be able to do out of the box with HTML5 (without javascript) include:
Placeholder text Sliders Date pickers (pop-up calendars for choosing dates) Those neat rounded rectangles typically seen for search boxes
Well – some of those might have support [...]
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