The first of the permission based web…

By permission based web, I mean companies asking you if you have permission to share another person’s contact information.  Going back to my post about “Who’s giving out your digits“, today I saw my first real example from Reuters (I’m sure there are others) of a company asking you to verify that you have permission to [...]

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Who’s in control?

In social media, the company does not define the rules.  The community does.  But in social media, the company is just as much a member of the community as the consumer.
I opened up my Facebook page this morning to see the following update at the top.

When I went to visit the Facebook Bill of Rights [...]

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The new Google Earth

I opened up Google this evening and was drawn in by a new feature for Google Earth.  It told me I could explore the ocean!  Well thoughts of fishes and other marine life danced through my head.  Except it’s not there yet.  What they mean is you can see the terrain on the ocean floor [...]

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My classroom and my playground

Back in the days before I discovered my inner geek, I was a business student at the U of A.  In one of my international business classes, I remember talking about NAMU (North American Monetary Unit) and the implications of joining our currency with the US and Mexico, kind of like the EU.  Recently, I [...]

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Who’s giving out your digits?

It’s not that I ever meant to give Facebook your contact information.  I wanted to know if you were on the site, and if you weren’t, I wanted to invite you because a lot of other people I knew were there, and I thought you’d have a good time too.  Like inviting you to the [...]

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