- The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009 | Webdesigner Depot – A visual history of cell phone design.
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Posts Tagged: api
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May 09
Whither Twitter?
The obvious thing the entirety of the social tech world is missing is that we already have the perfect social networking system(s) – email and instant messaging. Conversations and presence in someone’s address book is the same as a reciprocal friending on Facebook and MySpace. IM status messages do the same things as Twitter. Email is also the data most social services use as identification when you are looking for a user.
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Apr 08
Daily Links
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Commonalities of various flags, religion, and the confederacy!?!
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Hillary’s advice to Bill after Dems lose Congress in 1994 – “Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”More…
(Political News)
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Sep 07
Rapleaf crosses the line, refuses to step back.
There's a lot of hubbub over Rapleaf, a company that datamines email addresses from MySpace, Facebook, and other places. They are "supposed" to be about reputation monitoring (kind of like eBay's seller and buyer reputation) but they are also affiliated with another company, Trustfuse, that sells aggregate data but not emails. You can view a sample of a typical Trustfuse-Rapleaf report here (PDF). After they got spanked by the blogosphere, they altered their privacy policy and softened the language regarding the sale of data, but I suspect at this point the damage is done. They have the following info regarding removing your profile on their privacy page:
