Last night I was going through Google archives looking for a post (that I never found) from 2007-2008. I went through 30 some pages of search results and remembered some of the older content I wr...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/08/21/five-articles-i-wish-i-could-take-back/
I was not at the latest incarnation of Social Media Club Austin. I stopped going to SMC back in DC. The reason is… Marketing has usurped social media. Today, when someone mentions a social medi...
https://www.technosailor.com/2012/05/22/user-generates-hiring/
Last year, there was a brilliant preliminary report that came out of MIT where two grad students decided to explore the idea of privacy implications based on omission. In other words, these stude...
https://www.technosailor.com/2010/08/24/what-are-you-not-telling-the-world-online/
TechCrunch 50 startup and runner-up Threadsy reached out to me earlier to look at their service. I’m not usually one to do that but I had some time and their street cred seemed legitimate (TC50...
https://www.technosailor.com/2010/03/02/threadsy-aggregates-email-facebook-and-twitter-plus-invites/
By now, if you follow the technology world at all, or if you use Gmail, you’ve probably noticed a new thingy released by Google in the last few days. The thingy is called Google Buzz and it is ...
A lively little discussion developed over the past few days on the DC-PHP developers mailing list. We have a very active developers group here in the DC area – much larger than most cities, in ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2010/02/04/hiphop-php-and-the-evolution-of-language/
This was originally posted on my company blog and reposted here for posterity. By now, the news has hit the street about Facebook’s new PHP pseudo-compiler technology that is looking set to cha...
https://www.technosailor.com/2010/02/02/facebooks-hiphop-and-what-it-means-to-wordpress/
In a move that surprised many in the tech world, Facebook and FriendFeed today announced that FriendFeed has been acquired by Facebook. This announcement came as a surprise to those who see Frien...
https://www.technosailor.com/2009/08/10/friendfeed-is-now-in-a-relationship-with-facebook/
On February 4th, the largest social network by all accounts, Facebook, quietly updated it’s terms of service to grant itself an unending and irrevocable license to use all content ever uploaded...
https://www.technosailor.com/2009/02/16/its-february-16-do-you-know-where-your-facebook-photos-are/
As we gear up for 2009, there remains many questions about the economy and the growth curve of the technology industry. As a team, we have come up with predictions for 2009. Ray Capece, Venture F...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/12/30/tech-predictions-for-2009/
This year might be the strangest year ever. It roared in with news of Robert Scoble having his Facebook account suspended for utilizing scripts to sync data between Plaxo and Facebook in violatio...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/12/22/the-dickensian-2008-a-look-back/
A great side-effect of entrepreneurs’ optimism in tough times is creativity. At our OpenCoffeeDC last week, discussions got lively when talk turned to bootstrapping — not just self-funding, b...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/11/03/creative-ideas-for-capital/
There’s a new form of social media spamming happening in the name of PR social media relevance. It is the art of the Facebook “tag”. If you’re fortunate enough, you’ve been hit with thi...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/10/21/facebook-spam-pitches/
A few months ago, we started to see a shift in how Facebook could potentially be used in a different way. Newsfeed commenting was heralded as a Friendfeed style approach. Initially buried in the ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/10/03/facebook-shows-new-life-and-value/
To Mike Lazerow, CEO of new-age ad agency BuddyMedia, Facebook is the future. Big brands trying to reach the world’s 500,000,000 social network members are ringing his phone off the hook, becau...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/09/19/whats-a-social-app-developer-to-do/
Walled Gardens. Defined as media properties utilizing privileged access to provide information services or content to a user. The classic example of a walled garden was AOL, before they opened up...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/07/29/walled-gardens-and-business-models-in-the-21st-century/
Last night at the Twin Tech Party in DC, Sarah Lacy of Business Week and I had a chance to meet for the first time. What transpired has been spun unbelievably out of control by attendees of the p...
This is an open comments style post, so I want your comments. The thing about my “beat”, as they’d call it in the newspaper business, is that I’m not really all that interested in “the ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/07/05/how-has-social-software-changed-your-life/
9:53 AM – This is going to be an interesting session considering my “history of hate” with Facebook Beacon, etc. Who knows? Maybe Beacon won’t even be mentioned. We’ll see. The descript...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/06/10/facebook-business-marketing-solutions-kent-schoen-facebook/
A month or so ago, I unceremoniously ditched Facebook. Kicked it to the curb. See, the relationship was already on the rocks. She was apparently running around my back telling other people about ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/05/02/facebook-did-you-get-my-alimony-check/
In December, I wrote a post stating that Companies using Facebook Beacon as a marketing tool would get sued and demonstrated the privacy policies in effect at a number of the Beacon partners. One...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/04/17/i-told-you-so-blockbuster-sued-over-facebook-beacon/
Over the past few months, I’ve been getting increasingly fed up with Facebook. The signal to noise ratio is getting worse everyday and I’m spending more and more time investing in something t...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/04/03/facebook-youre-banished/
Alrededor de 600.000 usuarios de Facebook disfrutan regularmente de una partida de Scrabble con sus amigos. Y desde el 15 de Enero esperan ansiosamente que el problema entre Hasbro/Mattel y Scrab...
¿Quiénes están incluidos en tus networks sociales? ¿Que criterio utilizas para incluirlos? El tema se puede poner de lo mas controversial. Hay personas cuya meta es tener la mayor canti...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/01/10/la-interseccion-de-los-circulos-sociales/
Facebook ha decidido ofrecer su plataforma de programación al resto de los networks sociales, picándole adelante a Google y su esperado OpenSocial. Google OpenSocial surgió como una resp...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/16/facebook-se-enfrenta-a-opensocial/
Alex Rudloff escribe un interesante artÃculo (en inglés) sobre el uso de nuestra privacidad como moneda, pudiendo cada quien intercambiar partes de su privacidad por servicios. De esta forma ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/07/la-privacidad-como-moneda-2/
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook has taken one more step in the Beacon war. As we’ve noted, Facebook is wrong to not fully make Beacon an opt-in program, partner companies are w...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/05/zuckerberg-quit-insulting-our-intelligence/
I took the dive into Firefox extension development today whipping out an answer to the Beacon is broke sentiment that is popping up all over the net, including here on this blog. This extension p...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/04/freakin-beacon-firefox-extension/
La web ofrece una gran cantidad de herramientas para hacer relaciones públicas. A continuación, siete herramientas que facilitarán su operación de relaciones públicas online. Distr...
Privacy policies. They are the walls of separation that protect users from the over-indulging nature of companies and provide strict legal protections for both the user and the company. Privacy p...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/03/companies-using-beacon-will-undoubtedly-be-sued/