I really don't understand why and how can someone give $500 for an iPad. OK, it looks fancy. Apple finally started investing into designers. And it's a great idea, that tablet that is all touch sensitive screen, capable of doing many things.
But there all the nice stops. The rest of the truth is: iPad is a shiny crap. With a promise of even crappier future. Read more…
Before you say: Oh no! Not another one! – I must warn you that this one is really and essentially different. Yes, I want to draw your attention to Diaspora, a social network that is very promising (it's not released yet). So, what's so new, significant and different from all the other social networks? Read more…
Maybe you think that privacy issues with social networks today are as bad as it gets and that there is not much one can do about it. But, truth is that you have seen nothing yet. This is just the beginning. Read more…
I guess that you couldn't miss the recent story about FaceBook's new update. One that connects your data posted on their social network with the other sites all over the web. One that caused automatic change of privacy settings for all members. If you had any doubts, that wasn't a bug in the system, that was a deliberate action that opened the private data of 350 millions of people to the rest of the Internet, search engines, archives and data sniffers included.
So what? – one might ask. Call me old fashioned but I do care that my private things stay private, and that it is me who determines what is private for me. That is the exact opposite of Google's CEO Eric Schmidt's thinking that
if you have something you don't want anyone to know maybe you should not do it in the first place.
Now that's an interesting way to think. Read more…
We all know that FaceBook is an evil thing, right? Maybe I should give some argumentation for this statement, but that will make either a long list of ethical and technical issues or an even longer list of swearing and nasty words. And there's been a hell lot of those since the early days of FaceBook. You should check The Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Quit Facebook.
Thing is, most of us know that FaceBook is far from being good to it's customers, but we still stay. Why? At least, why do I stay? Read more…
