"Something I noticed about the old recessions - the eighties, the nineties, the noughts, was that technology became a route out of poverty and dead-ends: there's a huge proportion of system administrators and programmers who never made it through college, or high school, and found themselves in Silicon Valley, being airlifted to a sustainable life by one another's efforts. I imagine this will happen again in this recession too. If we hunker down to build what comes next, it'll be good to do it in a place where teenagers can help lead the charge." - Adewale Oshineye
"It's 2008. Information wants to be free. Blogs should be free. Blogger is free. Flickr is free. Vox is free. Twitter is free. LiveJournal is free. Facebook is free. WordPress is free." This has to be the daftest thing I've read all month. Can we please go back to companies with business models based on charging somebody for providing a service? - Adewale Oshineye
"It now appears that the Tastes, Ties and Times dataset has been identified. According to privacy scholar Michael Zimmer, the dataset of Facebook profiles is from Harvard College." It's like a slow-motion privacy train-wreck - Adewale Oshineye
I love this idea. Jyri helped found something similar in Finland called Aula. It's really a Cafe Cyberia style 'third place" for the microblogging classes. - Adewale Oshineye
