• Paul Adams, the Google UX (User Experience) researcher, who pointed out some flaws on Facebook this year, has now left Google to join Facebook.

    Whilst Adams is clearly a very bright guy, I believe this move is potentially an indicator of a MUCH bigger story,…

  • Carol Bartz, head of Yahoo, has some business advice for Google.  It’s unclear why Ms Bartz thinks Google NEEDS her advice, but in a weird interview with The BBC, Ms Bartz said that Google is heading for problems, unless it takes…

  • Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit has just confirmed to me that the next ‘big’ new feature coming to Friendfeed, will be the last.  This comes a day after Buchheit issued a confusing statement about the future of the platform he co-founded.

    Here’s what Buchheit just told me,…

  • So, FaceBook has acquired FriendFeed. This immediately got people speculating as to why FaceBook, with all those hundreds of millions of happy users, would want to buy FriendFeed.  In short – FaceBook didn’t want to buy FriendFeed!

    FaceBook bought talent – Not a platform

    FaceBook…

  • According to researchers from Cambridge University, users can STILL find photographs they have ‘deleted’ from many social media websites, over a month after the user deletes them!

    Social media picture puzzle

    The researchers opened accounts with 16 social media sites and uploaded pictures.  Then, 30 days…