FOI Topics and Links of the Week
Retailer’s Terms and Conditions attempt to restrict negative online reviews. After a consumer posted a negative review of an Internet retailer online, the retailer reached out, not to apologize, but...
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T-Mobile gives its G2 Droid amnesia. The G2s appearing on T-Mobile shelves this week come with an extra piece of hardware, and it’s not a free car charger. If G2 owners teach their Droids (either by...
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Has the Future of the Internet come about?
This week there’s an online symposium at Concurring Opinions about the Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It. I’ll be blogging there; in the meantime here’s my opening entry. I wrote the Future...
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Google launches Government Requests tool. Google is now making public information on the requests it receives from government agents to remove content from its search results or reveal private user...
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A roundup of happenings that bear on the issues in The Future of the Internet – Canadian Android Carrier Forcing Firmware Update. A Canadian carrier wanted users to download a firmware upgrade that...
View ArticleThe mysterious world of Facebook apps, cont’d
Thanks for all the great comments (here, and in replies directly to JZ on FB and Twitter) on why Facebook apps haven’t taken off the way, say, iPhone apps have. I thought I’d try to summarize some of...
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CIO.com offers a fascinating article on the Facebook economy and how much app use has plummeted since a Facebook user interface redesign de-emphasized outside apps. I’d noticed that, too, and wondered...
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Some thoughts on the Facebook terms of service privacy storm: Facebook and other social networks have an especially tricky time in this zone, since so much user data is relational. You upload a photo...
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Apple continues to exercise its control over the iPhone platform, recently rejecting an app for using too much bandwidth. CastCatcher was a radio streaming app, which had been approved in several...
View ArticleScrabulous returns as Wordscraper
The makers of Scrabulous have apparently relaunched it as “Wordscraper,” a word game that can support a variety of rules, and whose tiles no longer look so much like Scrabble’s. Players can themselves...
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