24 March 2008

We need to seriously knock this off.

I logged into SocialThing and saw that a friend posted a link about a neat architectural concept. I was about to reply, until I saw that I couldn’t. What I would have been replying to, was his Facebook status, which was really, a Twitter post, piped over to Facebook, and slurped into SocialThing.

It has gotten out of control. How do we fix this?
Eric Rice on Social Networks

26 January 2008

The creation of fake personas, carefully nuanced with mundane details and mediocrity, the fake ‘average guy’, when developed over a long period of time, can be an ingenious platform to scrape data, mine data, infiltrate social networks and communities.
Eric Rice on Social Hacks