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Stephen Pickering

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  • Facebook’s Privacy Solution is So Simple

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    Instead of screwing with the granularity of your main page or account, confusing and aggravating the users, all that Facebook has to do is have two separate pages for each user: one completely private (except for those one chooses to be friends with), and the other completely open and connected to the open web. They…

  • Google Font Directory – Free Custom Fonts for You’re Webpage/Blog

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    Many interesting things were announced today at Google’s annual I/O keynote and meeting. Google “Wave” is now open to the public with no invite necessary. That should attract more users and get some “network” effect going, making it a more useful service. Another little one, kind of under the radar, is the availability of some…

  • Neither Twitter, Facebook, nor Apple Will Survive the Open Web

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    I was thinking about this subject tonight, that there is no way such closed systems as Twitter and Facebook can survive the force of the open Internet in the coming years with the price of data, storage, and bandwidth all marching toward near zero cost, much less be an Eco System or “Platform.” As these…

  • Painted on the iPad

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    I haven’t attempted to draw or color anything in 20 years, but the iPad feels so natural and unintimidating that you allow yourself to play. And then when I was reading TUAW, they highly recommended an app called Art Studio that’s like as good as Brushes but only .99! Pretty unbelievable. I jumped in. So…

  • How to Use an iPhone as a flash drive

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    Easy, just use iPhone-Explorer from Mypod apps. It’s really cool and free, for Windows or Mac. It’s a little program that browses the files and folders of an iPhone like it were an external drive. Nice because iTunes keeps a lot of things hidden, for instance sound recordings and notes. But it’s also nice to…

  • All the Google Accounts on Twitter

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    Twitter’s newest ad platform: ________________________________________________________________ Courtesy of the Official Google Blog twitter.com/Google – our central account twitter.com/GooglePubPolicy – our take on politics, policy & government* twitter.com/Blogger – for Blogger fans twitter.com/Google Books – Passages, quotes, images and product news* twitter.com/GoogleCalendar – user tips & updates twitter.com/GoogleContacts – user tips for Google Contacts* twitter.com/GoogleImages – news,…