This month’s Carnival of Journalism is hack-your-workflow, otherwise known as tips and tricks…. I don’t know how this got posted twice! Here is the most current version.
Category Archives: Personal Technology
I Want To Use Flickr With My Twitter Applications
If Yahoo! wants Flickr to remain relevant in an increasingly interconnected world, it’s essential that it it work with third-party developers to enable easy sharing of Flickr-hosted content on Twitter. Post-haste!
An open letter to Carol Bartz, Yahoo! CEO; Roy Bostock, Yahoo! Board Chairman; Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Co-Founder:
Twitpic, Twitter and Photo Ownership Rights
In the battle over photo-sharing sites, the verbal skirmish centers on the concept of ownership.
Over at PBS MediaShift, read my (timely given Twitter’s roll-out this week) essay, Who Really Owns Your Photos in Social Media? This post has a bit more musing and context.
Hotmail, Phishing and Missing Algorithms
My brother-in-law got not one but two sophisticated phishing emails in his Hotmail account. Both targeted his Hotmail account. He should never have seen the emails. Where were Hotmail’s “anti-spam” algorithms?
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MSFT + Skype: What Does It Mean To You?
According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will announce an $8 billion purchase of Skype as soon as Tuesday.
A deal could be announced as early as Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said, though they cautioned that negotiations aren’t yet final and a deal could still fall apart. Including Skype’s long-term debt, the total value of the deal is about $8.5 billion.
Gigaom reported at midnight that the $8 billion cash deal was a wrap.
Here’s the 64-dollar question: now that Microsoft has confirmed that it is buying Skype, will you continue to use the service if Microsoft does buy Skype, would you continue to use the service?
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