Synaptic is preona's blog about the real-time web and how synaptic web is making an evolution on it...

Is personal blogging dying under the weight of real-time flows?

Image by xioubin low via Flickr Remember the days when the modern internet was new and everyone and their dog had a blog they were writing several times a week, if not every day? Around 2004 blogs suddenly became incredibly mainstream due to their involvement in several political events and some other shady things that [...]

This entry was written by swizec, posted on May 25, 2010 at 10:56 am, filed under Real-Time web and tagged , , , , .
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Why people like liking things

Image via Wikipedia When we first started the Preona project one of our most important assumptions was that actively liking things is very cumbersome and few people will want to do it in order to personalise the reading suggestion system. What we wanted to build was a system that could automagically learn from what the [...]

This entry was written by swizec, posted on May 20, 2010 at 1:42 pm, filed under Real-Time web, Synaptic web, The Web and tagged , , , , .
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The myth of [online] privacy, or how facebook is becoming more realistic

Lately facebook has been taking a lot of flak over user privacy regarding the changes they’ve implemented to their API and how easy it is for 3rd parties to access user’s private data … or more to the point, how much pain users have to go through to hide their personal data. My personal opinion [...]

This entry was written by swizec, posted on May 10, 2010 at 4:03 pm, filed under The Web and tagged , , , , , , .
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