http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog ...even a dice can roll Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:25:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PutPlace is now in public beta. Why should you care? Well... There's only a few certainties in life. Death. Taxes. And the loss of stuff you've stored on your computer. The loss is one thing. But the bit I really hate. Is the aftermath. When every time you think about looking ... http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/07/01/get-your-sh1t-together-with-putplace/ People misunderstand privacy all the time. Sinead O'Cochrane seemed to experience the recent symposium as scaremongering. While I experienced it as low key and leavened with humour. I'd love to think it rose to the energy levels fit for a scaremongering label but it just doesn't stick for me. I was ... http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/06/30/ive-got-nothing-to-hide-and-other-misunderstandings-about-privacy/ You go to a party. Meet a girl. Photos are taken. They end up on Facebook. Girl's brothers issue Fatwa. Suddenly you've got £20,000 bounty on your head. http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/06/30/meet-girl-at-party-pick-up-20000-bounty-on-your-head-tks-facebook/ I was asked to speak at a Darklight symposium. I must admit I wasn't sure if I could afford the time. I'm at a sensitive time with my business, you see. I was told the talk was on privacy. I was like. Oh in that case. I should. Then I ... http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/06/29/meeting-a-hero-in-the-darklight/ "Amity Island had everything. Clear skies. Gentle surf. Warm water. People flocked there every summer. It was the perfect feeding ground." As we all know. MySpace, Bebo and Facebook draw predators of their own. "The police chief of Amity Island tries to protect beachgoers from a great white shark by closing the ... http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/06/26/is-facebook-this-generations-amity-island-the-setting-for-jaws/ Just got the news through Slashdot. Facebook's been talking about their breakthrough in privacy controls for quite some time. They have an elite team working on it and they are highly motivated to resolve the issue. Its pure business logic. A sense of privacy encourages the free expression and authenticity ... http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/06/22/eek-mark-zuckerberg-patents-privacy-solution/ I was just reading about how good it is for Dial2Do and twitterfone now that California is banning phone use in cars from July 1st via Pat Phelan There's got to be loads of fun news worthy little services here. I mean a Californian's identity is so strongly ... http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/06/15/having-hands-free-fun-in-your-car-with-twitterfone/ All social systems are based on trust. That truism scales from groups of friends to distributed economies. It is trust that lubricates commerce, whether that is the social commerce at an informal social gathering or the market commerce in a stock market. If you position yourself to own the future ... http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/06/15/owning-the-future-of-trust/ Launched in beta with Microsoft today Zignals is an Irish startup that gives ordinary investors the tools and information to trade stocks as intelligently as more sophisticated investors. For free. The company is based in Dublin. Has so far raised €2.5m in private equity finance and has 10 employees. The substantial ... http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/06/12/beating-the-stock-market-with-zignals/ http://www.niall-larkin.com/blog/2008/05/29/remixed-lisbon-treaty-poster-crying-out-for-a-caption/