Category: social networking

27 February 2010

Of Stone Tables and Communities

Filed under: check point, social networking - 27 Feb 2010

Here’s a fun tweet I picked up recently:

phoneboy.com has been here for more than 10 years, you might say? Well not the

25 January 2010

Following the Conversation

Filed under: blogging, check point, social networking - 25 Jan 2010

I feel bad, in a way, that I haven’t been posting to my blog. Then again, I think I know why. The conversation is, for the most part, elsewhere.

Does it mean my blog is a failure? Am I not getting …

21 January 2010

Inbox Liquidation, Part 53

Time to clean out the inbox once again…

Truphone Bonanza: I have a fair number of items related to Truphone in my inbox. A while ago, they launched an Android calling app for WiFi, making it possible to use their …

31 December 2009

What A Long, Strange Trip 2009 Has Been

Filed under: apple, check point, phoneboy, social networking - 31 Dec 2009

The beginning of 2009 had a rocky start for me. My employment situation was up in the air thanks to my long-time employer Nokia selling off the Security Appliance Business I worked in to …

1 December 2009

Not All Social Networking Services Are Created Equal, Quit Treating Them That Way.

Filed under: social networking - 01 Dec 2009

Over the years, I’ve used a number of social networking services. Not just services like Twitter and Facebook, but things called bulletin board systems that you accessed via dialup modems. It wasn’t as cool, as mainstream, or even as technically …

24 November 2009

Inbox Liquidation, Part 51

As usual, a lot of crap gets backed up into my email. Here’s a few of the more interesting bits. I have a few more that I’ll post later.

Callpod Fueltank Uno: As my portable iPhone charger I bought

1 November 2009

Not Following The Crowd

Filed under: social networking, twitter - 01 Nov 2009

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Much has been made over Twitter’s new “lists” feature they have been rolling out over the past several weeks. …

The Dangers of Social Networking

Filed under: blogging, people, security, social networking, software, twitter - 01 Nov 2009

This past week, I’ve been on the Check Point Security Tour up in Western Canada talking about the Dangers of Social Networking. The basis of the presentation was actually something I gave to Check Point employees in Redwood City back …

6 September 2009

Twitter and The Mix Tape

Filed under: music, social networking, twitter - 06 Sep 2009

Back when I was in college, I had a stereo with a dual cassette recorder and a CD player. This was fairly common back in the early 1990s. The king of “personal music devices” back …

23 June 2009

Inbox Liquidation, Part 49

It’s that time again where I sift through the debris in my inbox and pick five or so things to write briefly about. It’s kind of like Stefan Constantinescu’s series called Trimming in Public except I only write about …

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