Today I read yet another rant about receiving forwarded emails. He yells at everyone for using CC (or To:) instead of BCC. I totally agree about using BCC.
Just when you though Web 2.0 social networks could not get any worse, according to Techcrunch’s post on Totspot, a social network for babies has been created! What can someone do? Well, once your baby has finally crawled, you post it! You can also post his first steps, his first solid food, his first dump, anything that you can imagine. And when he is finally old enough to have a mind of his own, he’ll probably slap you in the face for making the whole school mock him for those baby pictures he always wanted to hide.
You know, the funny thing about Web 2.0 and it’s social networks is that people are starting to take them really serious. I have recently read Robert Scoble’s post where he cries about being deleted from Facebook like it’s the end of his life. Relax man, it’s not like being deleted by Facebook makes you disappear from earth or something. It’s a f***g social network like thousands of them out there. And what is that about your privacy? If your videos, photos etc where private you wouldn’t have posted them on Facebook in the first place! That’s not privacy, that’s sharing. Even if they will be deleted some time in the future, you still have them on your computer (except in the case where you thought that Facebook is where you store your files) and could probably post them again and again and again.
I have recently stumbled upon TechCrunch’s article about ControlC. The idea sounds, well, ridiculous.
First of all, how many people use the clipboard to remember things? There are numerous of other applications like Google Notebook, other notes applications, windows notepad and even plain old Post-It. Why the hell should I use the internet for this?
On top of that, does anybody care what other people copy on their clipboard? ControlC’s public user profiles isn’t for people viewing other peoples clipboard, it’s seeing what other people are sharing (by using ctl+c combination and declaring it public). In other words, “Copying something and sharing it” is just another way of saying “posting to my del.icio.us” or “posting to my flickr” etc. Nothing new.
If somebody really would like to keep his clipboard history, there are plenty of freeware applications to assist them. The idea here is not, again, at all new. You can’t even copy from one PC to paste it to another without having the service installed in both, unlike some other portable clipboard utilities out there.
I believe this is a service that runs to catch the Web2.0 bubble before it explodes (A.K.A. Built to be Bought)
