Not really a surprise, but it’s good to hear it confirmed.
Yes, Facebook is tracking you when you aren’t logged in
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There's a problem with "trending"
It’s Time to End ‘Trending’: The first problem with “trending” is that it selects and highlights content with no eye toward accuracy, or quality. Automated trending systems are not equipped to make judgments; they can determine if things are…
Twitter’s abuse problem is, at heart, a technology problem
This is a damning summation of Twitter’s structural problems: “It’s a technology company with crappy technologists, a revolving door of product heads and C.E.O.s, and no real core of technological innovation. You had Del saying,…
Instagram has birthed a clichéd "authentic" visual style all its own
The Guardian recently published an astonishingly predictable rant about Instagram from Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. The young fogey “oh, social media is ruining the world” tone of this article is almost unbearable. Dig through it, though, and there’s some potentially…
Micro.blog: what Twitter would be if it was built as part of the open web
For the last couple of months, I’ve been really enjoying using micro.blog, a Kickstarted Twitter-like microblogging service. It has made some interesting design choices – like not disclosing how many people follow you, and keeping Favourites as a purely…