February 2010
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How Google SHOULD Have Rolled Out Buzz
As much as I’ve tried to convince everyone I know not to use Google Buzz, I can’t pull myself away. I’m too curious about stuff like this. But beyond the bone-headed privacy issues behind Buzz, it’s just not a very good product. It’s hard to know if it was rushed or just ill-conceived, but it was too much all at once with too few options. Here’s how they should...
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How Your Google Buzz (and Reader) Comments End Up...
While Google Buzz seemed like a perfectly logical and exciting next step for Google, one thing makes it totally worthless: the lack of privacy. You may think of it like Twitter, where you know that you can choose to post things privately or publicly. Or you may think of it like Google Reader, where your shared items are on a page with your comments. You may have already seen this article on the...
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Getting Chummy With The iTunes DJ
When iTunes first rolled out their iTunes DJ feature, I was unimpressed. I thought that the “DJ” part was a misnomer; implying that you could play music for a party in the same way that a DJ would off other laptop software. It was really just a glorified shuffle, I thought. I hid it from my leftnav. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been making increasingly complex smart...
