Feb
18
2010
I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric:
The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record. He has [...]
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, free software, freedom, funambol, mobile cloud, moglen, privacy, push, sflc, sync
Mar
17
2009
Google’s power is making more people concerned that their motto ‘do no evil’ is not reassuring enough. Fabrizio Capobianco’s blog post summarizes the concerns of the Winston Smith Project. Google is scary because it controls the access point to the internet for 90% of users and because it’s expanding its reach to the mobile network. [...]
Tags: apple, funambol, google, microsoft, Nokia, ovi, privacy, strategy, sync
Jun
05
2008
I’m not a big believer of hosted applications mainly because they fail to deliver the ‘run everywhere there is a connection to the internet’ promise. Nonetheless, I’m using hosted apps very often, especially for school papers where I have to collaborate with other people on one document. In these cases I would like to have [...]
Tags: affero, asp loophole, freedom, gpl, privacy, saas
Jan
23
2008
Flavia mi segnala un evento importante: giovedì 31 gennaio a Roma presso il Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università La Sapienza parlerà Whitfield Diffie, “padre” della crittografia a chiave pubblica insieme a Martin Hellman e Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems.’ Sarà ’ per un incontro con quanti nella comunità accademica – e non solo – s’interessano al [...]
Tags: crittografia, evento, gpg, privacy
Dec
10
2007
The protest of people on Facebook made the difference.’ Mark Zuckerberg wrote on FB’s blog
We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them. We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it.
The policy changed from opt-out to opt-in, no stories [...]
Tags: community, facebook, marketing, privacy, social networks, web2.0
Dec
03
2007
I have received recently half dozen invitations to join social web2.0 services: Roberto pointed me to twitter during a real life chat in Firenze, other invitations came via email to services like Plaxo pulse, Naymz, hi5, Spook and others. Many people are asking to become my friends on Facebook but I don’t remember meeting [...]
Tags: cluetrain, community, marketing, privacy, web2.0
Nov
23
2007
I have been playing with Facebook lately to check its potential. Everything started when William Ward invited me there in a moment when I was vulnerable (it was before I started the MBA: a few weeks later and I would have gently declined the invitation). In the last weeks I enlarged my network, [...]
Tags: community, facebook, marketing, privacy, social network, web2.0