Liz Gannes in Social on April 18 at 9:23 am PT
Here’s Banjo’s reply to Congress over the iOS address book sharing scandal.
John Paczkowski in News on March 14 at 2:44 pm PT
Looks like Congress isn’t quite through scrutinizing Apple’s consumer privacy protections.
Voices
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on February 17 at 4:20 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on February 15 at 10:33 am PT
In the wake of the Path address book flap, Apple says all apps that want access to your data will have to ask nicely.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in Social on February 8 at 12:24 pm PT
Personal social network Path got
called out yesterday for automatically uploading users’ address books to its servers. Now the company has formally apologized and introduced a fix. CEO Dave Morin
wrote in a blog post, “We now understand that the way we had designed our ‘Add Friends’ feature was wrong. We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts.”
Liz Gannes in Social on March 16, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
At a time where you can find social aggregators everywhere, and with much of the company leadership having left the building, Comcast-owned Plaxo is getting rid of social.
Kara Swisher in News on February 28, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT
Yes, it’s actually called Mogwee, which was the codename for the new mobile social communications service being launched tonight by Ning, the high-profile social networking platform.
Part Twitter, part SMS, part Path and any number of such social start-ups, Mogwee actually stands for “more great weekends.”
Here is a video with Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal and Chairman Marc Andreessen talking Mogwee.
Liz Gannes in Social on November 15, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT
Aro Mobile on Tuesday will be exhibiting at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The company makes a set of search-driven mobile apps for Android that link together so they can be more useful. (It is still in private beta, but as of tomorrow those who sign up on the waiting list will actually get in.)
Liz Gannes in Social on November 10, 2010 at 9:46 pm PT
As a larger question in the battle between Facebook and Google over data reciprocity, what captivates me is how much value people are putting on user email addresses. Are our email addresses really the best proxy for who we are?
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on November 2, 2010 at 1:21 pm PT
In the end Buzz, Google’s ill-starred, privacy-violating social networking service, proved more of a public relations burden than a financial one. The company on Tuesday
settled the class action suit brought against it, for its foolish decision to use Buzz to transform our private Gmail address books into public social networks, by agreeing to establish an $8.5 million fund for Internet privacy education and policy.
