Mark Pack

But now? The news that MySpace is letting its users synch their status updates with Facebook is just a small curio. »

Excellent presentation from Google's Paul Adams about how people want social networks to behave, and in particular how we want to provide different information (and behave differently) with different groups of friends. He slightly overstates the case about existing tools not letting you do this (Facebook lets you group friends for example) but the core [...] »

Of course, if newspaper paywalls don't turn out to work outside the existing niches such as the Financial Times, their impact on general online commenting habits will be very limited. But let's assume for a moment that paywalls work well enough to spread across various newspaper and other sites. A core feature of paywalls is [...] »

Dear Facebook, I don't like you this morning. Why? Because you've made some changes that (a) come over as you bullying me, and (b) create a whole load of duff content that's even worse than the Google Ad revenue chasing content-free spam sites which still clog up too many search results. Facebook used to be [...] »

The New York Times has a good piece highlighting just how complex the privacy options and privacy policy have become for Facebook users. (Piece found via a work colleague's blog post.) However, the newspaper also criticises Facebook's privacy policy for being longer than the US Constitution (or rather the US Constitution without amendments, which is [...] »

This morning The Observer ran a piece detailing the less than savoury attitude towards homosexuality of Philippa Stroud, Conservative candidate for Sutton & Cheam and head of the influential Conservative think-tank Centre for Social Justice: A high-flying prospective Conservative MP, credited with shaping many of the party’s social policies, founded a church that tried to “cure” [...] »

Posters matter in election campaigns, because they show people that a party has plenty of support. Knowing that a party has lots of support in turn encourages other people to vote for that party. So last Sunday’s Daily View was a poster special with one you can print off and put in your window. Today it’s [...] »

The Facebook group We got Rage Against the Machine to #1, we can get the Lib Dems into office! continues to grow at a remarkable pace. It is now bigger than the Conservative and Labour Facebook pages combined. It is also now bigger than the party's paid-up membership. I think this is the first time [...] »

When I first wrote about the winners and losers from Thursday night's TV debate between Brown, Cameron and Clegg I only briefly touched on technology: Winner – TV Loser – internet The TV audience peaked at just under 10m, far more than any online audience for a UK political event. TV kept on broadcasting whilst Facebook [...] »

I wrote previously about how often it is the unofficial online groups supporting a party or candidate that garner energy and enthusiasm beyond that which the official presences manage. That's been demonstrated again today, in the aftermath of the first televised debate between the party leaders. Paul Waugh has documented how various official party profiles [...] »