When I first signed up for facebook, it was obvious to me that it was a walled garden taken from the same mold as AOL or Prodigy. Facebook allows you to import things to facebook, but they never allow data to escape except to humans. As an example, I’m writing this on my [...]
Entries from June 2009
Walled Gardens
June 28th, 2009 ·
Tags: The internet
ACM again – the inspiration for SIGCRAP
June 12th, 2009 ·
Today I got spammed from ACM. There were several annoying things about it:
The fact that they use direct mail marketing in the first place. The email address they used is the one I used to register for SIGIR 2006, so at least they are using the “existing business relationship” loophole.
They are still a [...]
Tags: Research