It's easy to imagine how we could make something worse than "Girls Around Me"—something much worse. Facebook encourages us to disclose a wide range of information about ourselves, including our religion and a photograph. Religion is obvious: "Yids Among Us" would obviously be one of the go-to tools of choice for Neo-Nazis. As for skin colour, ethnicity identification from face images is out there already. Want to go queer bashing? There's an algorithm out there for guessing sexual orientation based on the network graph of the target's facebook friends. It's probably possible to apply this sort of data mining exercise to determine whether a woman has had an abortion or is pro-choice.

The old Google made a fortune on ads because they had good content. It was like TV used to be: make the best show and you get the most ad revenue from commercials. The new Google seems more focused on the commercials themselves.

I’m embarrassed by the patents I filed, but I’ve learned from my mistake. I’ll never file a software patent again, and I urge you to do the same.

RT @EFF: Effective, fair content moderation is hard. Lessons from #Facebook and #Tumblr:

RT @bdconf: The top mobile client for Twitter and Facebook? The mobile web. Surprising stats from @lukew.

This had us incapacitated with laughter at work today:

RT @anildash: In response to the NYer profile of Zuck, i took a look at the larger reckoning Facebook faces:

Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system

The Facebook backlash is well underway. Yay backlash.

RT @dalmaer: The EFF are awesome. They can tell a story. They use facts.

"The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and click a button. Voila! Even the stream based ways in which the text gets consumed look awfully similar. Yet, the more I talk with people engaged in practices around Twitter and Facebook, the more I'm convinced these two things are not actually the same practice. Why? Audience."