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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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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Real-time really really sucks!

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I read an interesting post about the speed at which information travels between two nodes in a network. It was about a so called Data Singularity and the basic premise was that nowadays information flows are so horribly fast that only computers talking to computers can handle the stream at all [...]

This entry was written by swizec, posted on March 9, 2010 at 9:00 am, filed under Information overload, Real-Time web and tagged , , , , , , , .
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