When your social graph is not… yours!

Thanks to Andrew Wyatt for spotting this great story on Uk’s The Telegraph. A former employee of a recruitment agency was ordered by a Court to hand over his LinkedIn contacts to its former employer when he was found poaching clients in favour of his own consultancy. It’s probably a case bordering unfair competition and [...]

The value of your Digital Self

Two posts on the Digital Self topic on the same day – never happened before! Anyway, the usually interesting The Register has this article about the threat of Socialbots who pass themselves as real people on Facebook and fool other users into accepting a friend request to then scrape their user data. This only confirms [...]

Digital death

Today is traditionally the day of mourning for your dead. People would visit their deceased and in fact my childhood memory abounds of these sad strolls through silent pathways in Milan’s cemeteries to go visit our relatives to rekindle their memory and talk about their time with us. This holiday gave way to a more [...]

Wake

Ever wondered what’s yours? I have been searching for a while for tools that collect your digital breadcrumbs into a cohesive view. Two I like are these: Glos.si Still in invitation-only beta, Glos.si collects posts from five services (Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr to build a “magazine of self” in nice (but not yet [...]

Whose Social Graph?

It seems I can only blog about items related to an old love of mine, the Digital Self. Today I spotted this article on C|Net which prompted me to download Mansour’s code. More poignant, however is the discussion itself: how can it possibly be AGAINST Facebook’s terms to scrape MY OWN social graph? Yet it [...]

I do (did ?) love Dropbox

But I do not love their new T&C – read this excellent post by Roland Schorr. Money quote: By submitting your stuff to the Services, you grant us (and those we work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to use, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works (such as translations or format conversions) [...]

The internet dog

Everybody remembers this cartoon (Peter Steiner for The New Yorker), right? Gawker brings us a new twist. Amina Arraf, lesbian blogger from Syria was eventually exposed as being Tom MacMasters, a married american grad student. S/he got her fifteen minutes of fame by being published by Paula Brooks, editor of LezGetReal a lesbian news site. [...]

Memory

This is (a piece of) my Memolane: I am fascinated by the concept of the Digital Self, and perhaps there is even a reader who remembers my old posts about it. However, I am not entirely sure I get the purpose of Memolane for which I have recently received an invite. Off the top of [...]

The case for anonymity

I guess none can make a better one than 4chan’s m00t, right? Watch it on TED

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