Myth busting. According to a Nielsen report, women are heavier users of mobile social networking, and ages 35-54 are much better represented than teenagers. Just saying.
Cookie buster. Besides all its visible annoyances and CPU overheating tendencies, did you realize Flash also keeps cookies around? And offers absolutely no UI for managing your privacy. I will not use the word evil, but will point to the obviously-named Killflashcookies.
The fall will kill you. Brian Oberkirch sums up the issue with privacy and discoverability:
My hunch is that if we polled users they’d be hard pressed to tell you what FB activity could be seen by whom. I’d wager that most users don’t really understand that things have changed.
And then but so: those things are like being afraid of not knowing how to swim. We’re jumping, folks. And not knowing how to swim is the least of the issues.
Hella cool. Petition to make “Hella” the prefix for 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Smack a host. Cool URL pointing to localhost. Try http://dontmakeme.smackaho.st:3000/.
Cartoon, by H. Caldwell (via foreverdigital)
Una ocurrencia común mientras trabajamos | Weblog de Sergio Ortega