Between the ticker and the plans to auto-share even more activity on the timeline, I’m beginning to think that Facebook should call itself Firehose instead.
I’m tempted to ask, “Who the hell wants this?” but based on past experience, that usually means I’m just not in the target audience.
TechCrunch | Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook Just Schooled The Internet. Again.
(Originally posted on Google+)
I’m not sure who annoys me more:
Remind me not to read these kinds of articles. And especially not the comments on them. And especially not the ratings on the comments.
When it comes to diners’ dietary demands, how much is too much? – Inside Scoop SF
Originally posted on Google+
Opened up a spam trap I’d forgotten about and found ~40 copies of some — well, I hesitate to call it a newsletter, but it was a long collection of headlines, summaries, and links to news items and dubious reference sites that looked like someone had taken a few dozen conspiracy theories, put them into a blender, and then splattered them onto the page like Jackson Pollack.
At least, I want to believe it’s some horribly-mangled computer-generated aggregation…but it wouldn’t surprise me if it turns out to be someone’s serious attempt to create a newsletter without being able to write a coherent sentence.
Years ago, I wanted a smartphone so I could write down all the blog posts I compose in my head when I’m away from a computer. Now that I have one, I end up reading Facebook, Twitter, or Google Plus instead, and I compose blog posts in my head when I’m away from both my computer AND my phone. Maybe I just need a pencil and notepad.
Wow: A researcher studying the way people use computers found that most people don’t know how to search for a word on the current page!
Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F
Google’s resident search anthropologist, Dan Russell, dropped this incredible statistic on us. And no, he couldn’t believe it either.
To someone used to using computers, it seems so basic, but I guess if no one shows you it’s there, it’s the kind of thing that’s not easy to discover on your own. (via Slashdot)
The article doesn’t actually say which side of the 90/10 split people using toolbar buttons or menu items to search fall on, but it does mention people paging through an entire document to look for something by eye.
Cool idea: Google is designing a “Web intents” system for web apps similar to intents in Android. For those who haven’t used Android, “intents” allow apps to register actions they can take — such as “I can share (or edit) images!” — and other apps to hand data over to them. That way your camera app doesn’t need to know about every possible image-sharing or editing app you can put on your phone.
Now they’re extending the idea to web applications. There’s a JavaScript-based proof of concept, and they’re planning to add native support to Chrome.
Originally posted on Google+
Update: While it would have been cool, Web Intents never got off the ground. Paul Kinlan describes what happened.
