Now I know it’s not just me. Nate Hoffelder’s article came across in my wanderings this week, commenting on a post he had read by Marco Arment about search traffic, or rather the lack of search traffic. (Follow the links in both articles too, for more on the topic!) Basically, they’ve been noticing a drop…
Hmm it was just last week that I expressed some concerns over Facebook’s plan to start flagging false information using a simple crowd sourced method; If enough people flag it, it must be false, right? Then I discovered something even scarier to think about from this story: How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of…
When I first read that Facebook, and others, would start adding a bit to the algorithm to try and eliminate scams, and other false information, from my newsfeed I was excited about it. How many times have I logged into Facebook and seen dozens of falsehoods like the claim of copyright status, or ridiculous news…
NPR has a story this morning talking about Facebook’s facial recognition tools and the potential risk to our privacy that comes along with it. One of the things I like about this story is the explanation of modeling, and how without a model, facial scanning doesn’t really work. It’s comparable to the conversations I’ve had…
I posted this status to the Facebook page for my child abuse site today. It’s a site with over 1,000 fans, yet not one of those newsfeeds showed a recent post to the page. I posted a link here about 4 hours ago, and according to Facebook analytics, exactly no one was shown that post…
So, now that we’ve had a few days to sort of digest the news that Google Reader isn’t going to be around, you may be asking yourself what all the fuss is about. Those of you who’ve never used an RSS reader probably don’t understand what you’re missing by following a site on Twitter, Facebook,…