Facebook Email

Not sure if I should be excited or frustrated (I'm going with frustration for now), but our good friends at FB is now competing with google and yahoo and bringing us e-mail services too.

Unfortunately I have no hope that this is actually going to be a good thing (look at FB's photo service). For sure, I'm expecting that I am NOT going to be able to access this account via POP or IMAP (which google supports) or be able to support attachments or forward my e-mails to another account.

I am going to go on a limb and predict that they will allow me to forward e-mails from other accounts to FB.

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• Interesting Development

Privacy & Security

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Security Threat of Geo Tag'd Pix

It's difficult to have a discussion on Security Threat posed by geo tagged images without discussing the difference between Privacy & Security.

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Gowalla on My iPhone

I have been using Gowalla for a few weeks now, very happily. It let's me "check-in" in restaurants or any "place" and then my "friends" on Gowalla can see that.

But, with my iPhone, I often end up in a situation where my location is grossly incorrect (upto 1.2Km off) and this causes a real issue. Gowalla will not allow me to check-in a location that I am that far away from (which makes sense) - but in my case, I actually am right there. It's my stupid iPhone that is reporting, incorrectly, that I am NOT there.

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iPhone 4 is NOT 4G

I'm hating how too many people are assuming that the new iPhone 4 (the 4th generation iPhone) is for the 4G Network - it is NOT.

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• The New iPhone 4 is Out

No Bluray on Mac

Why there is still no bluray on the Mac is something I simply don't understand.

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iPhone 4

After much anticipation and rumor iPhone 4 was finally announced. As expected / anticipated it promises some new features (some definitely useful, but others questionable). But of the couple of things I was hoping for, for example:

• An Alternative to AT&T as the carrier
• Tethering
  

I is not being offered at all and the other is being offered at a fairly high premium.

Given my existing list of iPhone cons, I am seriously considering an alternative.

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Disappointment with iPad

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• CNN

A Smarter Addressbook & Inbox

One that will take into account all my online presence

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My Opinion

people ask me for my opinion when what they want is to hear me say what they have already decided.

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Health Care

To think that there is 2 sides to this is the most naive notion possible.

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addressbook - keeping it updated and in sync

It's a struggle to say the least. But what's even more frustrating is the fact that with the various social / professional networking tools, i.e., Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIN, where my friends are already updating their own info - I am NOT able to leverage them to keep my addressbook(s) (of which I have several copies) in-sync or updated :o(

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Unemployment

I hate how this information is used and calculated. And I hate, even more, how this information is used and perceived.

First off - the unemployment number is not how many people are out of work at any given time.

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IMDB

Can't access my IMDB account / profile :o( I've had the account for years and years and have submitted a few reviews etc. Now I can't access the account or any of my reviews, movie info etc.

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"Everyone Else Does it"

has not counter argument.

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Nikon

• Price
• Lack of Choice
• Lagging Behind Canon
• Collaborating with SONY on the sensor

Price - Comparing with Canon

• Entry Level Full Frame - $2,217 (D700) vs $1,869 (5D)
• Top of the Line - $7,995 (D2x) vs $3,741 (1D Mark III) / $3,900 (5D Mark II)
• 24-70mm f/2.8 - $1,440 vs $1,170
• 70-200mm f/2.8 - $1,600 (VR) vs $1,488 (IS)
  

Choice / Selection - limited, very limited.

vs Canon - Canon has really got a head start on this whole digital revolution.

Sensor Ownership - I am sure Nikon has their own strategy on this one, but I feel that sharing ownership of this critical aspect of the product cannot be a good thing.

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flickr

Yes, I am quite frustrated with flickr :o( Most of the frustration is from my own experience with flickr (and most of it having to do with searching for my pix) but some of it also comes from various complaints my friends have had and which I have NOT had luck fixing.

Here's a list of my "bugs":

• Trying to find all pix with a certain tag often not getting any pix
• Searching for text in the Tags ONLY never works
  

And here are a list of features (missing all together or designed inconveniently etc) that makes using flickr extremely difficult (if NOT outright useless):

• Update Multiple pix (yes, I am aware of the things that I can try to do in a batch)
• Sharing Limitations
• Poor / limited presentation style
  
• Inverse Search
• Only 1 Default Order to Show Pix (most recent uploaded first) - would be nice to be able to set the default view order to be Most / Least Popular (Viewed | Commented | etc)
• Automatically add to / remove from Groups (based on tags | EXIF data | etc)
  

The following are little less irritating, but poorly designed:

• Archives listing of Photos "Taken On" and "Posted to Flickr" columns are static and does not have to option to change order or collapse or align by year / month of year. I happen to have started posting to flickr in Jan '04, but I've got photos from earlier days that I am starting to post and already my "Taken on" column is 50% longer than my "Posted to Flickr".
  

And this / these are in the "I have no idea what's happening" category:

• View Count

Most of the issue my friends face / experience has to do with "uploading" in some fashion. Some examples are:

• Upload NOT completing
• The uploadr not working reliably
  

Other issues include:

• Not being able to upload & archive my pix at FULL Resolution

Some of these frustrations stem from the fact that I have used "Gallery" in the past and it allowed for some really cool features (mostly related to permission, to an individual user and / or to custom group, based sharing).

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FB Login Saga Continues :o(

It seemed like I might have stumbled on the root cause (enable cookies on the browser) and got it fixed. But apparently I was mistaken.

It's still broken.

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Facebook Login Issue

Not quite sure what's happening, but I've been having all kinds of issues trying to access FB lately. I keep getting the following message:

I have tried logging in from various browsers (Flock, Firefox, ie, Safari) on both Windows (XP and Vista) and Mac. But neither the browser nor the OS seem to make a diff :o( So, unless proven wrong, I'm blaming it all on FB.

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pache lok-e

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