Why Storify Misses the Point on Protecting Privacy

Facebook groups privacy

When is a private thought not a private thought? When online curation tool Storify decides to bypass privacy wishes and share that thought publicly. Over at AGBeat, there’s an interesting (and alarming) story about how Storify can be used to post private updates on Facebook publicly. By using their curation tool, someone in a private [...]


Instagram, Social Media and the Opt-Out Economy

Instagram terms

If you follow any kind of tech or social media news, you’ll know about the announcement from mobile photo app Instagram and its new Terms of Service that come into play on January 16. If you haven’t seen any of the stories, the main gist of it is this: Instagram’s owners, Facebook, will have the [...]


Can We Still Trust Google?

what does google want to be

It’s a question many are asking – can we still trust Google? (In fairness, it’s a question you could ask of any social company). I’ve written about my falling out of “like” with Google on here a few times recently, and they still continue to piss me off. For example, I completely deleted my Google+ [...]