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Will Oracle embrace or extinguish MySQL?
By now you've certainly heard the news about Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems. But what does this mean for MySQL, which Sun has owned since 2008?
Twitter's celebrity storm: Which social network is next?
If you're involved in social networking and you've not heard about the Ashton Kutcher/CNN showdown, you should probably check yourself for a pulse. In a nutshell, Kutcher has promised to prank Ted Turner if his Twitter account, @aplusk, makes it to 1 million followers before @cnnbrk (which, prior to this week, wasn't even owned by CNN). Even with the stuff Kutcher is promising if he wins, this is still rank stupidity.
Do any of us really know what we're doing?
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Who here actually has a real clue about what they're doing in social media? I'm not talking about that ado from months ago about people claiming to be social media experts when they were no such thing. I'm talking about us folk who are starting social media ventures, the people who fund us, etc. Who knows where this crazy ride is leading us?
The numbers game and asocial media
When is social media no longer social? When you're playing it for the numbers. It seems the great promises of social media have fallen by the wayside, as users play a game of one-upmanship with each other, trying to have the most followers, tweets, comments, what-have-you. You know what? That's not social media. That's asocial media.
How did I ever survive this long?
This is a short blog post, existing merely to inform all of you that as of today, I am 26 years old. I may act young, but I feel old. Old enough that I can't even stare at the college girls without feeling lecherous.
Now geddof the lawn, you damn kids, and let me enjoy my birthday! :D
