27 August 2010 0 Comments

Eat, tweet and make money

How about this one? You are going out for lunch and decide to have a quick burger or a healthy salad. You end up at 4food in New York where you can create your own personal menu from hundreds of ingredients (the combination of ingredients makes it possible to compose up to 200.000.000 different menus). [...]

8 July 2010 4 Comments

Why Google is so worried about Facebook

The Real Life Social Network v2 More thoughts on BusinessInsider

18 April 2009 13 Comments

Facebook manners and you: please behave on Facebook…

Alice, Timmy, Donna and Facebook relationship etiquette. Have good Facebook manners and the electric friendship generator will be more fun for everyone… The Rules: Don’t change your relationship status without consulting the other person Don’t post embarrassing photographs of other people Be discreet when posting messages on another person’s wall Don’t steal other people’s friends [...]

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22 February 2009 7 Comments

25 things I hate about facebook

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16 February 2009 8 Comments

Facebook, don’t be evil!

“Don’t be evil“, the informal corporate Google motto, doesn’t seem to count for social networking website Facebook. While (online) privacy is becoming a bigger concern day after day, Facebook changed their Terms of Use in favor of, yes you guessed it, Facebook. Most people don’t seem to know (or recognize) they give up the rights [...]

26 August 2008 1 Comment

Facebook hits the 100 million users

Earlier today Facebook was proud to announce its 100th million user. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking site announced it himself on the Facebook blog: We hit a big milestone today — 100 million people around the world are now using Facebook. This is a really gratifying moment for us because it means a [...]

2 May 2008 0 Comments

Is Facebook dangerous? Protect your privacy…

Collecting personal data through the popular networking website Facebook is a piece of cake. At least that’s what the BBC tried to prove. And they succeeded… Using a small program it’s easy to list private data that other users have not decided to share. Making your personal data only visible to direct friends is not [...]

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13 December 2007 3 Comments

How the big ones implement their 404 page not found error pages

Yesterday while browsing on YouTube I ran across a 500 Internal Server Error. Never happened to me before on YouTube, but I didn’t mind. The YouTube 500 Error page seems to contain a funny message, and if there is something I like it is funny errorhandling. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched [...]