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Google Circles: Aunt Ruth Doesn’t Need to Know

This Google Video sums up the philosophy of Circles perfectly in the last line: “Aunt Ruth doesn’t need to know.” Therein lies my problem with the motivation of circles: It’s preventing people from seeing things they shouldn’t, not necessarily showing … Continue reading

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There’s an Evernote podcast?

I’m a pretty light user of Evernote; it was a good dumping ground for the accumulated snippets of text I carried around first on my PalmPilot and then on my Blackberry. Useable notes came late to the iPhone; frankly, they’re … Continue reading

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Google Plus Circles: Conjunction of the Spheres?

Kepler imagined the solar system as a series of nested Pythagorean solids. It was an elegant notion, but we live in a more complicated (Einsteinian) universe. Is the same true of current social networking models? GooglePlus is dominating my RSS … Continue reading

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