Earth to Microsoft: Don’t sell Bing.

In the New York Times, Robert Cryan and Martin Hutchison of Reuters BreakingViews suggest that Microslft sell its Bing search engine, either outright or in exchange for stock in a company that can do more with it than rank a distant #2 to Google while…

When will Skype’s Users Stop Being Skype’s Customers?

“If you are not paying for it,     you’re not the customer;       you’re the product          being sold.”
posted on Metafilter’s “User-driven discontent” thread by blue_beetle at 1…

Context aware computing and futurism at Intel

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco in September last year, Justin Rattner, the director of Intel Labs, announced a new research division, called Interaction and Experience Research (IXR) and headed by Genevieve Bell, and also presented a …

A sense of bewronging

“Social networks” are getting out of control. And I don’t mean their control. I mean your control and mine. Here’s an image to keep in mind while you read the rest of this post:

The calf is you or me. The cow is just one of our many social net…