by Nadya Arnaoot on October 20, 2009
I hear more and more stories these days about folks being burnt by the (bad) privacy default settings on Facebook. As more and more older folks join Facebook, I’m concerned that more and more of the people I care about are going to have embarassing Facebook mishaps– or worse, lose jobs or relationships due [...]
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by Nadya Arnaoot on October 5, 2009
David Hockney has been using the Brushes app for recent paintings.
Just gorgeous.
“People from the village,” he says, craning back over that shoulder, “come up to me and tease me, ‘We hear you’ve started drawing on your telephone.’ And I tell them, ‘Well, no, actually, it’s just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad.’”
– David [...]
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by Nadya Arnaoot on October 4, 2009
So, for the last couple years I’ve been pretty regularly running into Dashboards. That is, websites that folks can look at to get an idea of how things are going. The usual idea is that the first page shows how things are going in a bunch of different areas, and you can click to drill [...]