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No internet standard can be centralized. People are making a huge mistake when they rely on Twitter, URL shortening etc. Look at the architecture of SMTP or DNS, and why they've served us over decades so well. - Antonio Piccolboni from Bookmarklet

make the web P2P, all of it. Is it crazy or empowering? - Antonio Piccolboni from Bookmarklet

Facebook seems unstoppable, but it is already declining in some markets. - Antonio Piccolboni from Bookmarklet

Some amazing astrophotography from Cassini - Antonio Piccolboni from Bookmarklet

For a little friend of mine who hasn't picked her career yet - Antonio Piccolboni from Bookmarklet

This is in particular for my pro-vaccine friend and all the parents out there - Antonio Piccolboni

"Sense Networks works with mobile phone service providers who collected data from users who opted in to have their data be collected and mined. All the data they receive from the service provider is GPS location data -- no personal information at all was ever made available to Sense Networks." - Antonio Piccolboni from Bookmarklet

Phone companies asking people to opt in? Who would be so unwise to do so? And how can location information be anonymized without being made useless? There is only one person going from my block in Oakland to this block in SF every morning. It's like anonymized DNA data: pretty much an oxymoron, as our DNA is unique to each individual, and so is our location information. - Antonio Piccolboni

Google copies FF's comments. Everybody copies FF. Flattering but you guys need to stay one step ahead. - Antonio Piccolboni from Bookmarklet

And the consumer electronics version of this in http://www.useit.com/alertbo... - Antonio Piccolboni

Only backup was an rsync of the filesystem and it contained corrupt data. A huge mistake? How about the words negligence and recklessness, when are those appropriate? - Antonio Piccolboni from Bookmarklet