Being a fully fledged Twitterer (Tweeter? Twit?), there’s only really one reason I go on Facebook these days and that’s to play Scrabulous. But it looks like the threats of removal have finally been carried out. At least, I think they have… Hasbro, who own the rights to Scrabble in the US and Canada, had […]
Continue ReadingI’m hearing the phrase “ambient intimacy” a lot these days. Ambient intimacy is a term coined by Leisa Reichelt last year to describe the kind of relationships that the internet allows you to have with people. She describes it as “being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy […]
Continue ReadingWell, no. So why, when someone asked that question in the office this morning, did at least two people nod vigorously and begin to earnestly discuss the poor man’s demise? I was bemused. Normally, the punchline to the question “did you know Neil Buchanan’s died?” is “yes, he had an Art Attack”. Boom, boom. Had […]
Continue Reading… about to remove the “is” from its status updates, apparently. At least, that’s what I think this means: Starting with tonight’s push, any API calls that return information about users’ status messages, including FQL and users.getInfo, will be changing slightly. The return value will now start with a verb, so prepending “is” is no […]
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