GooglePlus Makes me Feel Like a GoogleMinus

On day 1 of the Google+ launch, I joined as I was invited by a bunch of friends. I was pretty busy on that particular day and saw everyone buzzing about it, but didn’t have time to spend more than about 10 minutes setting things up.
The first thing t…

Behavioral Targeting: Do. Not. Want.

Just the sheer sound of the phrase sounds repugnant. Targeting? Like I’m some sort of wild game to be hunted down. No. Not hunting ME down, that would be too personal. It’s my behavior. From an article today on Mashable:
Data points amass as you cl…

Personal Data is Important: Does Anybody Care?

[final article published on the O’Reilly Radar Blog – I put the unedited version up here]
I’m one of those people who, like most people, tends to surround myself with like-minded folks. Most dinner party conversations turn into a rousing debate on th…

Buyosphere: The Big Picture

We can’t lie. We have ulterior motives. Really big ones. Most people don’t see it when they look at Buyosphere. They see a fun place to post the stuff you own and buy and share it and organize it and discover cool, new stuff.
But that’s all a gui…