From the monthly archives:

December 2007

What are we doing when we Twitter?

by Mathew on December 30, 2007 · View Comments

I came across a post by J.P. Rangaswami, whose blog I quite like, and he was talking about Twitter and what he gets out of it. You can read the full post, but in essence he says that he gets something different from the people he follows on Twitter than he does by following them [...]

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How many does registration keep out?

by Mathew on December 29, 2007 · View Comments

(cross-posted from my media blog) The answer is inherently unknowable, of course, but my friend Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 had a great post recently about the ROI (return on investment) of registration systems — something he only thought of when he got prompted to log in at the New York Times after somehow getting [...]

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Gmail’s new chat: Social or spam?

by Mathew on December 29, 2007 · View Comments

Ionut Alex Chitu at Google Operating System has been spending some time poking around in the entrails of the Javascript code behind Gmail, and has found what he believes are signs of forthcoming chat-related features, including what appear to be updates from your friends and contacts via the chat window (the chat function and a [...]

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Drop that compact disc, music thief

by Mathew on December 29, 2007 · View Comments

If you’re like me, you’ve ripped hundreds — perhaps even thousands — of compact discs, and copied the music files to your hard drive so that you can play them on your computer, or on a portable music player. You may even have done so on the advice of Apple, whose slogan “Rip, Mix, Burn” [...]

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Netscape is finally dead, thank God

by Mathew on December 28, 2007 · View Comments

So AOL — known in the bad old days as America Online — has finally decided to remove the life-support equipment from Netscape Navigator and allow the browser to die in peace. As Mike Masnick notes over at Techdirt, plenty of people would no doubt be surprised to hear that AOL is still making Netscape [...]

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