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Android Phones Show a New Face(book)

April 5, 2013

in 1.0 Creating Communities on the Living Web, 13.3 E-Business 2.0: Reinventing Web Commerce, 4.3 System Software: The Hardware-Software Connection, 4.4 The User Interface: The Human-Machine Connection, 8.7 Social Networks, Updates

Rumors of a Facebook phone have rattled around the tech world for quite a while. Today Facebook announced not a a phone, but software that can convert many Android phones into Facebook machines. Facebook is available in app form on most smart phones. But the new Facebook Home software will replace the Android home screen with a Facebook-centered home, making it possible for social networkers to keep Facebook at the center of their phone experiences. Will Android phone users click Like?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/04/facebook-android-home-phone/?cid=6882274

Tagged as: Facebook, operating systems, smart phones, social networking, user interface

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The Flash inside the Cloud

March 19, 2013

in 3.3 Storage Devices: Input Meets Output, 3.4 The Computer System: The Sum of Its Parts, 8.4 The Network Advantage, 9.1 Inside the Internet, Context, Ports and Slots Revisited

When you post something on Facebook, stream a movie from Netflix, or share data with Dropbox, you’re using “the cloud.” Apple’s iCloud makes it possible for 250 million people to store their music, appointments, and documents “out there” and effortlessly access them via iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other digital devices. But what, and where, is the cloud, and how does it work? This slightly technical Wired article examines the futuristic technology inside the cloud—technology that’s likely to find its way into future PCs, tablets, and phones.

wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/flash-fusion-io-apple-facebook/all

Tagged as: Apple, cloud, Facebook, flash, memory, server, storage

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The Lonely Connected World

October 22, 2012

in 10.5 Human Questions for a Computer Age, 8.7 Social Networks, Context

MIT Professor Sherry Turkle has been studying the human impact of digital technology for decades. In her book Alone Together and in this Fresh Air interview, she talks about how texting and social networking are profoundly changing the way children, teens, and adults live, think, and feel. There’s plenty to think about here.

npr.org/2012/10/18/163098594/in-constant-digital-contact-we-feel-alone-together

Tagged as: education, Facebook, isolation, privacy, texting

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Sharing is Caring—or Is It?

August 29, 2012

The concept of sharing is everywhere on the Internet. In this thought-provoking Huffington Post blog post, Bianca Bosker asks whether Facebook and other companies are using the term to manipulate our feelings and extract information from us.

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Putting a New Face on Facebook

February 1, 2012

The world’s biggest social network has a nasty habit of changing its user interface often enough to confuse and anger users all around the world. The latest Facebook iteration, the Timeline. presents your history (and may threaten your privacy) in a whole new way. This Macworld article tells you what you need to know to make the Timeline work for you.

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The Battle of the Digital Giants

November 18, 2011

Our digital planet is being transformed every day by new ideas and inventions. In this fascinating Fast Company article, Farhad Manjoo describes how Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon are battling for the future of the innovation economy. If you want to better understand how the “Fab Four” will change your life over the next few [...]

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Social Media and the Stories They Can’t Tell

September 13, 2011

Has Facebook replaced endings with an infinite stream of status updates?

Facebook, Twitter, and other social media are overflowing with stories of real people living real lives. Or are they? This thought-provoking article by Paul Ford takes a hard look at what’s missing in the stories people tell through social media. This is one of the best pieces we’ve seen on the changing roles of social [...]

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