is Roberto Mateu’s geeky blog.
Facebook: Protecting Your Passwords and Your Privacy →
Erin Egan, Chief Privacy Officer:
We’ll take action to protect the privacy and security of our users, whether by engaging policymakers or, where appropriate, by initiating legal action, including by shutting down applications that abuse their privileges.
I think a we’ll see a high profile lawsuit soon, just for Facebook to signal companies that its serious.
2020: Humanity is only present on Earth and the Moon.
Cool flag evolution in the future. I love sci-fi.
The Svbtle Network is an experiment that brings some of the best things from newspapers (editing, vetting, etc) to a network of independent bloggers. It is focused on the writing, the news, and the ideas. Everything else is secondary.
Sounds great. His focus makes my suggestions yesterday a bit irrelevant, but that’s internet time for ya’.
This is a short but heartfelt manifesto about the difference between liking something on the internet and loving something on the internet.
An iPhone app with a sincere and somewhat enlightening manifesto.
Very excited that I’m going to meet Robin at Do Lectures in a few weeks.
Apple's iPhone TV Ads: The Complete Campaign →
The story behind all 84 TBWA spots so far, beginning with the first teaser.
Great recompilation and commentary by Tim Nudd, I had forgotten many of these.
Your Facebook Password Should Be None of Your Boss’ Business →
ACLU:
You’d be appalled if your employer insisted on opening up your postal mail to see if there was anything of interest inside. It’s equally out of bounds for an employer to go on a fishing expedition through a person’s private social media account.
It may sound obvious, but just like checking an employee bag before leaving work —a common practice in many places— this is going a grey area for some time.
Yesterday @dcurtis released a teaser for svbtle:
This is the blogging platform designed for creative, intelligent, and witty people.
Cool, cool cool cool.
But here is where it gets interesting:
Membership by invitation only.
If you read Dustin Curtis blog, it’s easy to infer that this is not Google+ fake scarcity invitation model. Svbtle is for people Dustin thinks are creative, intelligent, and witty, which are going to be few.
Since migrating this blog is my perpetual procrastination for why I’m not writing enough, I immediately decided it was perfect for me1.
I’m aware that an unrequested business plan is as welcomed as an involuntary prostate exam, but I couldn’t help daydreaming about what model would feel exciting as an user and also profitable — while still keeping a creative, intelligent, and witty community.
I know, mind-blowing. But just agree with me on the principle that a quality (design, uptime and sustainability) web service needs to charge money.
Let’s say $9.99 a month. Too expensive? It isn’t, but read on.
Write more than 500 words every week2 of the month, and you get $5 cash back towards the next. You get paid to blog more. Wise economists have already figured out that tricking yourself with a payment makes us go to the gym. If it makes people go to a sweaty, smelly place, it has to make creative, intelligent, and witty people write more from their couch.
This is also aligns incentives: bloggers want to write more and the (my) assumption is that @dcurtis wants a community that generates real content. Maybe all content won’t great —I submit this blog as evidence your honor— but you have to start somewhere.
Creative, intelligent, and witty people usually talk about creative, intelligent, and witty products and services. The Deck has shown us that ads can be relevant and unobtrusive, and that both writers/readers enjoy sharing screen space with quality products.
So, after a few months of keeping up with the 500 word/week/month level, you are invited to opt-in to the ad network. Creative, intelligent, and witty people have already agreed that web traffic and page views are a bad metric for success (although it doesn’t hurt), which means these analytics won’t be the deciding factor.
I really don’t know what the perfect recipe is, but it won’t rhyme with SEO. Again, this is invitation only, your LOLCats fiction writing blog can be great and all, but svbtle is a business, and maybe you don’t have an audience. No hardz felines kay?
That’s it. As always, ideas are worth their weight in bytes, but making an actual product generates real value. Congrats to Dustin for that.
A month ago I also decided scriptogr.am was perfect for me. And while my tumblr export experiments have been an utter failure, I still think this blog is moving there soonish. ↩
<blockquotes> don’t count. ↩
I can completely relate to the guy’s hate for IE, but his relationship with his cat is just plain sad.
Dogs, on the other hand…
(Source: youtube.com)