As I mentioned in my post last week about switching to a Mac, I’ve had a number of posts in the back of my mind, many of them observations that I’ve made since taking the plunge. Today’s is about how the Mac seems to sell itself. And all of us Mac users tend to help. [...]
Archive for: December, 2007
NewsGator closes new $12M financing
As you might have already read this morning (depending on whether my post makes it out first!), NewsGator has closed a $12M financing round, bringing our total capital raised to $30M. As the founder, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what we’ve accomplished, since that fateful day when I signed [...]
Using a Mac…why oh why?
As some have noticed, and others have gloated about :-), I’ve been using a Mac (specifically a Macbook Pro) as my primary machine for about a month now. I’ve been a died-in-the-wool Windows guy every since Windows 3.0, and scoffed at all of the people playing with their silly Macs. Well, I guess they showed [...]
One more comment on Beacon
Sigh…I thought I could let this go, but I just can’t seem to. :-) As I wrote a few days ago, Facebook’s Beacon collects data from third-party sites, and associates actions on those sites (such as buying something) with your profile data on Facebook. They’ve now allowed you to opt-out of having this information stored [...]
Facebook Beacon – eek
Over the last month or so, Facebook has been making changes to how Facebook Beacon works, seemingly in response to privacy concerns. But none of the changes have addressed one of the worst parts of the problem. If this post from Dare Obasanjo doesn’t scare you, at least a little, then read it again: When [...]