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Greetings, and Hello!

Apr 22, 2011 1 Comment by

In a world where media and the internet are revolutionizing societal notions of identity and privacy (largely for the better), I feel it is only proper to take a moment and introduce myself.  Hi!  My name is Triston McIntyre.  I’m going into my third year of law school at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, [...]

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Don’t Look Now, You Just Contracted On Twitter

Oct 06, 2009 5 Comments

For some of us, tweeting is more than just updating our friends as to what we put on our turkey sandwiches for lunch or how far we’re forced to walk from our cars to Starbucks.  Twitter is a powerful tool, and amongst other things, can be used as a medium for business negotiation.  And what [...]

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Blackberry, Windows Mobile Join the Apps Store Fray

Apr 01, 2009 No Comments

All you Blackberry and WinMo users out there that have been dejected, watching iPhone and G1 users download fun and practical applications from each phone’s respective application store, finally have something to smile about. This week’s big mobile news, at least thus far, has been the announcement of an application store for both Blackberry phones [...]

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Social Aggregator Skimmer Offers Power and Appeal

Mar 24, 2009 2 Comments

Today as I read through the top tech stories listed on Techmeme, I stumbled on a little nugget: an Adobe AIR social aggregator I hadn’t gotten my paws on yet! Called Skimmer, the AIR application aggregates users’ social streams from Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Bebo and Flickr into a a single continuous flow. And aside from [...]

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iPhone 3.0 Update Brings Proper Mobile Social Networking Closer

Mar 18, 2009 3 Comments

The iPhone’s next update, 3.0, was just unveiled yesterday.  For all of you that don’t own iPhones (which includes me), you might very well be wondering how I can connect the progress of a single phone to the advancement of mobile social networking as a whole.  I’m going to explain, so try to keep up. [...]

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Oprah and Zuckerberg Take On Facebook Etiquette

Mar 13, 2009 No Comments

Finally, the two people whose opinions I value most are going to spill it: Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg are going to talk about that fickle thing, Facebook “etiquette.”  What a relief!  I was afraid I would be forever unsettled as to how I should approach interactions with my Facebook peers.  And whom better to [...]

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Does Today's Facebook Really Help Build Relationships?

Mar 10, 2009 4 Comments

Facebook has certainly come a long way since its baby days, hasn’t it?  As one of the first college students to adopt the social networking platform, I’m all smiles when Facebook rolls out new changes.  At the moment Facebook is promoting its upcoming home page changes which will allow users to post content directly from [...]

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Will Facebook's New Constitution Really Be Crafted by Users?

Mar 02, 2009 No Comments

Facebook has been in quite the pickle recently, hasn’t it?  In trying to achieve transparency, it let users know about what was a technically small change in the legalese of the Terms of Service, and the uproar from privacy groups and FaceBook users was huge.   Now we’re at a very interesting juncture in the [...]

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Mobile Social Spreading, but Still Stunted

Feb 22, 2009 No Comments

I just got my first iPod Touch, and suffice it to say that I’m officially hooked.  In fact, I’m more than hooked.  In less than 24 hours, I’ve effectively decided that lugging around a Blackberry Curve with the wonderful Touch is too much, and that I need an iPhone.  Leslie called the iPod Touch a [...]

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Facebook Ties up Loose Contractual Ends and Everyone Cries Foul…Why?

Feb 16, 2009 12 Comments

Today the blogosphere is all a’tizzy about Facebook’s move to claim all rights, past and present, to user-uploaded content.  And perhaps the reaction is justified; didn’t we already deal with Facebook on the privacy front just a short while ago with the whole invasive advertising debacle?   If you haven’t heard, Facebook updated its terms-of-service [...]

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