Gadgetopia

With friends like these Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook: This is a very long rant against Facebook, and social-networking in general. It gets deep into the politics of the founders and over-capitalism, and all that, but I was struck by this bit towards the ...

Online social network links college students: Facebook is apparently the Next Big Thing. From the description in this article, it doesn't seem much different from other social networking services. What makes one service (of any genre) take off, while others flounder? Users of Facebook, can post a photo and a ...

Students give up social networks for Lent: This is just sad. For some, it's chocolate. For others, it's coffee or cigarettes. But as this Easter approaches, some young and devout Christians are anxious to return to what they gave up for Lent: Internet sites Facebook and MySpace.

Interview with George Clooney - On Career, Sex And Politics: Ever wonder what stars think about all the stuff written about them on the Internet? Well, this is one of the most simply inventive things I ve seen in a while: Esquire sat George Clooney down to surf the Web about ...

Way Too Good for Facebook or MySpace?: I knew it was going to come to this at some point social networking sites are getting more exclusive. This article profiles aSmallWorld which is the apparent king of the elite social networking sites. Membership in these networks, not unlike the exclusive ...

How do I know this person? Through the Web!: Jon makes an interesting point here. There s a whole category of people that you know via the Net only. You may have talked to them on the phone or met them in person, but the Web is where you met them. ...

PHP Sucks, But It Doesn t Matter: Jeff Atwood essentially closes the PHP sucks argument by agreeing with it, then explaining why it doesn t matter. The TIOBE community index I linked above? It s written in PHP. Wikipedia, which is likely to be on the first page of anything you search for ...

Day One was busy The Next Content Wave: Hypersyndication We started off with a keynote talk from Dick Costolo, who is the guy who created and sold FeedBurner and now works for Google. He talked about how far syndication has come. If you went to CNN or Gannett even ...