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Danah is confused by Facebook’s fans
Danah Boyd writes that she’s she is “utterly confused by the ways in which the tech industry fetishizes Facebook”. She asks some good questions and makes some good points. Lets go through them. My answers in italics.1. “In an effort to curb spam, they killed off legitimate uses of mass messaging, silencing those well-intentioned users [...]

Microsoft copies Google
Microsoft now is getting wifi-enabled busses to carry around its workers.Heheh. Google had that, what, two years ago? So does Yahoo.I wonder when Microsoft is going to get free meals for its workers?That said, Microsoft brought out a new beta of Windows Live Writer, a good offline blog editing tool. Does Google have one of [...]

Sun’s ZFS sued by Netapps
Last night Dan Farber came up to me and asked me if I had talked with the ZFS team about the suit (he saw that yesterday I put up a video interview with the two guys who invented ZFS). “What suit?” I asked. Turns out Netapps had sued Sun for a whole range of [...]

Dear Steve Jobs
Dave Winer wants a T-shirt.Me, I’d like to let you keep the $100 per iPhone you so generously are going to give me and other early adopters who bought the iPhone.Here’s what I’d like for my $300.I’d like an iPhone where software developers can go to town and play.I’d like an SDK. A real one. [...]

The $600 Apple Tax
You think you got it bad cause the iPhone dropped in price by $200? My family has bought three of them so far. Well, four, if you include Patrick’s mom, who just bought one a week ago. She’ll be able to get her $200 back, but the rest of us have paid an early-adopter-tax of [...]

Seagate’s solid-state future
Disclaimer: Seagate sponsors my show. In a year I’ve done about 300 interviews and none have paid anything to get on my show other than Seagate, so can’t say thank you enough to Seagate.But here we have two videos. One where execs show off the new products they just announced in New York. But the [...]

Thank you Google, thank you!
Thank you Google for the new Google Reader. Thank you. Read more about the new features on TechMeme. Thank you Google for the new Google Reader. Thank you. Read more about the new features on TechMeme. Thank you Google for the new Google Reader. Thank you. Read more about the new features on TechMeme. Thank [...]