One year ago today
Citigroup leads finance world in bullshit-generating capacity: Citigroup today announced a series of repositioning actions that will further reduce expenses and improve efficiency across the company while maintaining Citi's unique capabilities to serve clientzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Five years ago today
Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy: Adding "friendYouDontLike" to a controlled vocabulary will not make it socially complete; there's still "friendYouDidntUsedToLike." As long as there are social nuances that aren't captured in the rules of the network (i.e., always), the network will be unable to prevent them from sparking privacy blowups.
Ten years ago today
Sega's Crazy Taxi patent suit against EA is crazy: Avi Bar Zeev, former Imagineer who invented a Crazy Taxi video game while at Disney, weighs in on a patent dispute between Sega (which hired a Disney exec who'd seen Avi's idea and which quickly produced and patented a Crazy Taxi game) and EA (which has its own Crazy Taxi game).
