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Apparently you can’t build an alternative to Facebook without Facebook integration…

Altly prepares to launch an alternative to Facebook... and it has a Like button!

Changing of the Password

British Army ceremonial changing of the Twitter password at Buckingham Palace earlier today.

bye, bye, Miss Deprecated API

I'm done with the Twitter API

Facebook Interoperability

Social networking should work like email, not CompuServe. We need legislation to mandate interoperability between platforms.

GetvCard shutting down at the end of 2013

GetvCard, the contact information sharing service based on vCard, shut down at the end of 2013 and is no longer available.

HOWTO: Fix Twitter

HOWTO: Fix Twitter - instead of upping the limit to 240 characters drip out an extra character a year, and for good behavior.

Twitter: Put some status in status updates

A modest idea to fix Twitter without needing any blue checks. More relevant now than ever!

Facebook shouldn't own your social graph

It's time to force Facebook (and others social media providers) to open up the social graph. Via legislation. This won't solve every problem with social media but it's an important first step.

Stamp out B2B spam with an evil calendar

A modest proposal for a service to randomly connect salespeople together on useless video calls to raise the cost of spraying us with endless spam.

Twitter's API has got too painful for me

Twitter's opaque API policies have led to me no longer developing on the platform.