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Scott Talks about The OpenSky Project

In spite of the title, I’m not writing about flying today.  (Though there is an airborne intro video on my YouTube Page.) While my Blog may typically have my random musings, this post is really meant for friends & family so I’ll have a place to link to from Facebook, etc.
As most of you know, [...]

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Twitter Capacity Overload from Shopping?

So the Fail Whale is back today. Based on what I’ve seen in my own TweetDeck traffic, admittedly with a lot of commercially oriented folks I’m following, I wonder if a lot of the commercial traffic is to blame.

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Social Graph, Meet Commercial Graph

Your social graph, or social network as Wikpedia defines it, “is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes,” which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.”
I think there’s a new Graph developing [...]

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I Surrender to iPhone and Google

That’s it. I’ve done it. I’ve pretty much just completely surrendered.
Baaaaaa. I’m one of the Sheeple now.
I’m fully Orwelled. Or Jeremy Benthenmed/Panopticoned, Minority Reported. What I’m talking about is having all but fully thrown in the towel on personal privacy. (Ironic given a bunch of years ago I wrote a book on the subject. Foolish. [...]

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Authentication Rot

Yes, there’s a new form of Rot on the Internet. There’s ye’ ole’ Link Rot for when links die on the ‘net, there’s Application Rot, (which I wrote about a few years ago), and now there’s Authentication Rot. (Though this isn’t really a great name. I’m amenable to suggestions.) Actually, Authentication Rot doesn’t exist too [...]

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