Monthly Archives: November 2011

Thumbs Down for “Like” Culture

November 21, 2011 7:06 am by Blaise Alleyne — Technology —

When the “Like” button was first introduced on Facebook, it was a useful alternative to leaving a comment, another way to show you were paying attention, but it crept from posts to comments and pages, and it now permeates every aspect of the Facebook experience and defines the entire ethos of the site. What …

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    Explaining Distributed Social Networking Services

    November 19, 2011 6:26 pm by Blaise Alleyne — Free Software Technology —

    Via the FreedomBox Foundation, J David Eisenberg has created a great comic introduction to distributed social network services. Distributed systems are an important part of free network services.

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      Google+ exists to organize people, but I don’t want to be “organized”

      November 11, 2011 12:27 am by Blaise Alleyne — Free Software Technology —

      There are many things I like about Google+, but, beyond being yet another proprietary social networking service, something just doesn’t sit well with me about Google’s primary purpose. Comments by Brad Horowitz that Google+ will be connected to everything Google are a good example of what concerns me:
      Google+ is Google itself. We’re extending it …

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