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Facebook’s business model in trouble
Aug 6th
At what point do people finally realise that the emperor has no clothes? When you get these kind of accusations, they’re very hard to defend against. Especially when your entire livelihood, your complete business model, is what is being attacked here. Facebook has no business model that will help it survive in the long term.…
Valve starts porting Steam and games to Ubuntu
Jul 27th
Steam is coming to Linux, but for the wrong reasons.
Musings on why I never finished Mass Effect 3
Jun 30th
I was playing a bit of Torchlight tonight and realised that its been a very long time since I played ME3. I never finished ME3. Not because I don’t like the game, far from it. I love the whole series. I couldn’t figure out exactly why, and then it hit me. Its not on Steam.…
How digital media stores have changed our behaviour
Apr 13th
I still buy lots of physical media. However, my collection of games bought off Steam currently is large enough that the backups/installers for the games I have actually taken time to download fill an entire 2 terabyte drive. There are games associated with my Steam account that I haven’t ever downloaded yet. I still have countless boxed editions of games going back to the early 1990s, and for rare occasions I still buy boxed games when I think the game warrants it. Nearly always the Collectors Edition. But I also have the Steam versions of many boxed games I have purchased. So some games I have paid for several times. Why?
Why IE9, Windows Phone 7 and Windows can’t replace my Chrome, Android, Google Apps combination
Apr 12th
I have a very serious admission to make.
I used IE9 today for the first time in … well …
I don’t think I’ve ever opened it before and actually looked at it. I might throw the URL to google chrome into the run box, start the download and then close the browser. But I don’t think I’ve ever actually paid it attention before.
I looked at the interface of IE9 for the first time today, had a play with using the browser. Purely on aesthetic alone I deem it to be…..
New Facebook policy gives your data away to apps
Mar 24th
Facebook is about to update the privacy policy (yet again) and this one has a couple of doozeys. For starters it will no longer be called a Privacy Policy. It is now a “Data Use Policy.” That alone demonstrates the direction they’re heading. For example, it has new permissions in it such as : Read…
CyanogenMod 7.2 RC1 available
Mar 19th
CyanogenMod 7.2 RC1 is out. This is the latest (and presumably last) major Gingerbread release.
It now supports 70 devices and includes features back ported from CyanogenMod 9 (ICS.)
Privacy On the Web
Mar 16th
Remember, anything you post on a website belonging to someone other than you becomes their property. Read the terms of service and the privacy policy for the sites you use to see just how much permission you have given them to do as they please with your information. If you are not comfortable with that, then don’t post it to those sites.
How social networking use is evolving
Feb 26th
Sixty-seven percent of American women and 58 percent of men who maintain social media profiles delete people from their network, according to Pew’s findings, published Thursday in a report titled “Privacy management on social media sites.”
The new MySpace preview released
Sep 26th
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Never thought I’d say this, but I’d consider using MySpace again with this interface. Its got a very Google+ feel to it. Well, for those of you that have used G+ on a tablet that is. The side scrolling interface with the images is very much like the tablet version of the G+ app. I…