I actually think these standard hexagonal stickers are a great idea! They seem to be a big deal in the node.js community (I first heard about them at Nodeconf.eu). You can design your own custom ones or for your project, and get them sent to you from here: https://hexi.pics/ (run by people in the nodejs community I believe)
What evidence of not having control over our current email structure can we see right in front of us when we look at our inbox?
Even if you are right, and there is some aspect of email that we don't have control over; that's hardly a reason to ditch it in favour of centralised mediums such as facebook as our main point of communication, where we have minimal control.
I firmly believe that if 'technologys early adopters' are going to ditch email in favour of another (possibly more social) medium, then it should be a free, decentralised one. Communicating with someone through facebook might be <em>easier</em>, but does that make it <em>better</em>?
I think as a model for social interaction, it is a very broken one. To communicate with someone on facebook, you must agree to their terms and policies (which historically haven't always been very clear, and often seem to change on a whim...), and also trust the integrity of that particular company. This is something that not everyone will do (and, in my opinion, rightly shouldn't).
<strong><em><cite>You will be able to reach me on Facebook and on most socialnetworking sites as smalljones including Twitter, Gtalk, AIM, Skype, Quora, Hunch, LinkedIn, DropBox, YouTube, XtraNormal and here on this blog.”</cite></em></strong>
Considering this is an article on a site called opensource.com, and you seem to be called an early adopter of technology, I find it embarrassing that you don't list open alternatives to some of the above. Status.net and diaspora, for example.
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I actually think these standard hexagonal stickers are a great idea! They seem to be a big deal in the node.js community (I first heard about them at Nodeconf.eu). You can design your own custom ones or for your project, and get them sent to you from here: https://hexi.pics/ (run by people in the nodejs community I believe)
What evidence of not having control over our current email structure can we see right in front of us when we look at our inbox?
Even if you are right, and there is some aspect of email that we don't have control over; that's hardly a reason to ditch it in favour of centralised mediums such as facebook as our main point of communication, where we have minimal control.
I firmly believe that if 'technologys early adopters' are going to ditch email in favour of another (possibly more social) medium, then it should be a free, decentralised one. Communicating with someone through facebook might be <em>easier</em>, but does that make it <em>better</em>?
I think as a model for social interaction, it is a very broken one. To communicate with someone on facebook, you must agree to their terms and policies (which historically haven't always been very clear, and often seem to change on a whim...), and also trust the integrity of that particular company. This is something that not everyone will do (and, in my opinion, rightly shouldn't).
<strong><em><cite>You will be able to reach me on Facebook and on most socialnetworking sites as smalljones including Twitter, Gtalk, AIM, Skype, Quora, Hunch, LinkedIn, DropBox, YouTube, XtraNormal and here on this blog.”</cite></em></strong>
Considering this is an article on a site called opensource.com, and you seem to be called an early adopter of technology, I find it embarrassing that you don't list open alternatives to some of the above. Status.net and diaspora, for example.