It has been a full generation since the last time I can remember the definitive, most credible perspectives on a major tech news story happening across multipl...

People are wrong on the Internet every day; generally I don’t try to fuss about that too much. But when Sam Lessin, a former VP of Product Management at Facebo...

Today, for about half an hour in the afternoon, pretty much every app that you might try on your iPhone would likely have crashed upon opening it. It's probabl...

We don’t do nearly enough to examine what it means when we perform common actions on our social networks. These aren’t just guttural, reflexive responses! Th...

Late on Wednesday, just as Americans were taking off for the Thanksgiving holiday, Facebook announced its intention to change the feedback process for...

Today marks the launch of The Internet Association , a laudable effort from a number of prominent Internet technology companies to address our industry’s hist...

Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused...

Well, it seems like my post on how Facebook is gaslighting the web struck a nerve with a lot of folks. I have to give first priority to publishing the respon...

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users’ ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence tha...

Today, ThinkUp is out of beta and available for free . If you have a presence on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ and know how to run a PHP/MySQL app on a web s...

I’m quoted in today’s New York Times , talking about how politicians in this year’s election have had to confront their pasts, as shared through social networ...

As ever, the best thing about blogging is the conversations it kicks off. Some nice responses to recent posts here and around the web: In a follow-up to...

There’s an odd tendency in web culture to see all features as obvious, even inevitable. While most of the artifacts of our computing experience have been inven...

In my blog here, I’m mostly a textual dude. I’ve made a few little video clips or animated .gifs over the years, but basically, I’m a writer. But today, today!...

Malcolm Gladwell gets started with “The revolution will not be tweeted” in this week’s New Yorker , condemning social media’s ability to enact real cultural c...

Some great responses to, and extensions of, the things I’ve been writing about lately In response to Forking Is A Feature , Rafe Colburn offers up The cu...

There’s a lengthy, excellent profile of Mark Zuckerberg , and by proxy Facebook, in this week’s issue of the New Yorker, written by Jose Antonio Vargas. In it...

From my Facebook Usernames post on June 10: July 31, 2009: MySpace announces MyAddress, a feature for providing more control over the URL where your My...

The whole world A small number of super-geeky obsessives is abuzz over the upcoming launch of Facebook Usernames , an exciting new feature that will let you...

I was away traveling for the past few weeks, and upon my return, I asked my Twitter followers a simple question : "I’ve been completely offline for a...

This one’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and maybe you can all help me understand it. With any contemporary social networking site, I can control...

A few weeks ago, I asked the people who follow my Twitter account to describe the difference between lemons and limes. My immediate prompt was because I wa...

Put these in your browser, and shake well. Facebook apps are not a long tail . So says Chris Anderson, who oughtta know. The tougher question is: Since th...

I’ve seen a number of people make reference to Facebook’s application platform without knowing a lot of background about some historical examples that might be...