facebook’s not-so-great firewall

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

I am a twitter user and a facebook user. On facebook, I have it set so that the status message is automatically pulled from my twitter stream. Recently, I’ve noticed that many of my tweets don’t make it onto facebook.
One reason I like the twitter messages going to facebook is that facebook has a [...]

Clever PR move, Google: give up the ball

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

The Chinese expat net-o-sphere is abuzz this week with Google’s challenge to the Chinese government. I’ve seen commentary ranging from mindless protestor-like exaltations of a company “sticking it to The Man” to the more patronizing and pragmatic “why would Google want to give up all the money they can make?”

First, as someone living in [...]