- I abandoned my Skype account very quickly. I’m not with MS.
- I deactivated my FB account last week. Regarding FB comment embedding into webpages: I like! So I only have to block a single domain to focus on content. FB is a dedicated platform for wasting one’s time. FB keeps crαp out of the usable web. FB is the people you wished you never went to school with. FB is a hideaway for web illiterates; I had started unfriending fellows who got clickjacked. I do not belong there. I’m with Google.
- Of course, it was a great way to keep in touch with non-geeks or relatives or freakin’ everyone I’ve ever met. Well, actually, no, it wasn’t. Without FB Purity, FB was entirely unusable. OTOH, I could so easily show off what nerdy stuff I’m stumbling upon.
- I unfollowed ~60 Twitter accounts during the recent time; my own script involving python-twitter (because UnladenFollow.com was down) was of great use to get stats about who spammed my timeline most. But I still follow ~½ of those accounts in a different way: Via Twitter lists or even in an individual TweetDeck column.
- I actually abandoned my Identi.ca account, although mainly geeks seem to roam there. However, the flow in Identi.ca groups appears to me like spam.
- One can mute Google Buzzers’ imported Twitter stream to avoid duplicity. Though, this can only be done via Gmail, not on their Google profiles.
- I unsubscribed from some high-volume news sites’ RSS. I subscribed to some specific low-volume research feeds (about machine learning & computer vision). I’m using Google Reader, btw.
- 2011: The year the check-in died. Although I still believe that smartphones become a ubiquitous interface for local information, I don’t gain advantages by looking at fellows’ check-ins. The GPS in my smartphone gets restricted to navigational tasks or simple place search.
- Hey, Google, forget “social” and build the next generation web—and hire a bunch of good designers!
- I abandoned Yahoo’s services already several months ago. Instead of Flickr I’m now showing off my photos on SmugMug. I won’t transfer my Delicious bookmarks to their new owner AVOS; btw, Diigo.com is the best tool I’ve ever used: It unites highlighting, annotating and bookmarking. I’m using it for 2½ years now.
Finally, a prediction: The much-adjured Semantic Web will come... as a layer on top of the current
WWW, not built explicitly by humans, but by machines.
Stephan Paukner :: syslog on : Status quo of my web usage, II