Paul Jacobson

Category: Web/Tech

  • Customisable news feed on Facebook

    I was listening to net@nite yesterday and Amber commented that some of her Facebook friends have remarked how her friend additions are crowding out all the other items in their news feeds. Well, it turns out Facebook has a way to adjust how much of which items you receive from your friends in your news…

  • A measure of success for social media

    The term “Bubble 2.0” comes up quite a bit lately when not too long ago it seemed we had broken the bubble-bust cycle we last saw in the late 1990s. For those who were not conscious of the bubble bursting last time around, it was a heady time when there was a Web site for…

  • “Government monopolies in telecom will always destroy the value of the Internet”

    Gregor just published a video interview with Prof Larry Lessig where Lessig comments on certain cultural issues and the very controversial telecoms policy our government is pursuing. One quote stands out for me and that is the following: … Government monopolies in telecom will always destroy the value of the Internet … And this was…

  • links for 2007-04-23

    LexBlog Blog : More reason for full text vs. partial text feeds (tags: partial full feeds fullfeeds truncated toblog) Black Hole Cluster Breathes Out Enormous Gas Cloud – Yahoo! News Wow that is big … 6 million light years across (tags: blackhole 6millionlightyears supermassiveblackholes cosmicradiation universe galaxies)

  • Social media will be like air

    I have just been watching a video podcast episode of Marketing Voices with Jennifer Jones (part of the PodTech.net network) where Jennifer interviews Charlene Li from Forrester Research. Li believes that social media will be so commonplace in the coming years that it will be “like air”. Take a look at the video to find…

  • “Telkom doesn’t have customers … it has hostages”

    This video posted on Zoopy adds to the many voices speak out against Telkom. The video makes a good point: our apathy only benefits Telkom. The problem, of course, is that until Neotel launches consumer services, there is no real alternative to Telkom. Sure there are mobile devices and mobile data is cheaper than before…

  • Neotel’s instant new infrastructure

    I saw last night on ITWeb that Neotel has bought Transtel from Transnet for R230m. This acquisition gives Neotel a national footprint and long distance lines. I seem to recall that Transtel was one of the members of the consortium that created Neotel in the first place so this is probably a bit of housekeeping.…

  • links for 2007-04-11

    Strategic Legal Technology :: Legal Publishers in 2007 and Beyond How legal publishers may try to survive in the coming years (tags: legalpublishers socialmedia publishing law) Blogs turn 10 from Guardian Unlimited: News blog The history of blogs over the last 10 years. Very interesting reading! (tags: blogging Blogs interesting history) S60Webkit – WebKit –…