"Asking people to accept anything else is sharecropping. It’s a bad deal. Flickr helped pioneer “Web 2.0″, and personal data ownership is a key piece of that vision. Just because the wider public hasn’t caught on yet to all the nuances around data access, data privacy, data ownership, and data fidelity, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be embarrassed to be failing to deliver a quality product. The ability to get out the data you put in is the bare minimum. All of it, at high fidelity, in a reasonable amount of time. The bare minimum that you should be building, bare minimum that you should be using, and absolutely the bare minimum you should be looking for in tools you allow and encourage people who aren’t builders to use."

"To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options. Facebook says it wants to offer precise controls for sharing on the Internet."

"All those people who did such a brilliant job of making sure the Sugababes had a little bit more class than the others. Is this what they had in mind?"

"But if you’re a stickler for disk space like I am, or a stickler for privacy (or, heaven help you, both), Safari’s poor housekeeping is quite alarming."

"Apple’s App Store review team makes Walmart seem liberal by comparison."