Gigaom4chan founder: Facebook and Google do identity wrong
4chan founder Chris Poole believes that users need a balance of anonymity and identity online, a strategy he hopes social networks will also adopt as a way to allow people to… Read more »
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4chan founder Chris Poole believes that users need a balance of anonymity and identity online, a strategy he hopes social networks will also adopt as a way to allow people to… Read more »
Formerly known as Atly, a new social network from Myspace Music’s CTO Dmitry Shapiro is going into beta under the new brand of AnyBeat. From its description, it looks to be… Read more »
Google’s requirement that users of Google+ be known by their real names has been the source of a firestorm of criticism since the launch of the network. But the recent launch… Read more »
As it rolls out its Google+ social network, Google has been cracking down on its requirement that users have “real” names, just as Facebook has — but are we losing something… Read more »
Online anonymity has been taking a beating recently, with the Gay Girl in Damascus affair and a recent piece by the former ombudsman at NPR criticizing anonymous comments. But allowing people… Read more »
Christopher “Moot” Poole, the founder of the anarchic website known as 4chan, spoke recently at the TED conference about the rapid growth of the online forum, but also talked about the… Read more »
Are we seeing the beginnings of a new enclosure movement on the web? The burst of creativity spurred by Apple’s proprietary App Store platform has some commentators rethinking the fecundity gospel… Read more »