Vermutlich kam er in die Küche, um nach Wurst zu fragen oder Joghurt. Er traf dort mich beim Brotbacken und die Katze, die (innen) vor der Tür stand und maunzte.

Ich: Lass doch die Katze mal raus.
Jr. macht die Tür auf, die Katze geht raus: Tschüss Tipper (so heißt die Katze). Zu mir: Katze raus.
Ich: Genau, die will was jagen.
Jr.: Nich jagen. Katze Toilette.

Fast forward to todays story in the Silicon Alley Insider about Facebook’s history and more. Asked to comment on certain allegations Facebook gave a pr-speak comment which ended like this:

The unquestioned fact is that since leaving Harvard for Silicon Valley nearly six years ago, Mark has led Facebook’s growth from a college website to a global service playing an important role in the lives of over 400 million people.

Really? Facebook plays an important role in our lives? I’d argue that the people the software connects play an important role, not the darn software. For all I care I’d be using the phone to keep contact which would probably better resemble the actual number of friends, not this inflated thing which came to be because everybody who you said ‘hi’ to has nothing better to do than become your friend.

Facebook plays absolutely no important role in my live. My family does. Close friends do. Get a grip, people.

How I wish people at NHL.com, Vaynermedia, ESPN.com, TSN.ca and Yahoo were listening…

Say yes to Twitter from Marcus Brown on Vimeo.

The quote is at around 2:20. Found on Tapio Liller’s posterous.

Nachtruhe. Die Kinder schlafen, ich auch schon fast, da bricht es noch mal aus hier heraus. Wieder beruhigt fragt sie: Was ist eigentlich Jagdwurst?
Ich: Fleischwurst in dünn.
Sie: Mmh.
Ich: Oder ne, ist das nicht Bärchenwurst nur mit Erwachsenenmuster?
Da müssen wir beide lachen.

Also, released about ten days ago, Google now let’s you look at your social graph and what your contacts are sharing. This is the URL (you have to be logged in): http://www.google.com/s2/search/social#socialcircle

Interesting to see, how Google is not a social network but has all it would need in place…

I am not sure what it is, a glitch, a security hole, privacy issue, common sense, but here is what happened:
Back when the Facebook iPhone app was update to contain push notification and sync I did just that: Sync my phone book contacts with the Facebook iPhone Apps contact list. Today I received a phone call from my uncle on my iPhone. Next to his name was a small picture. I didn’t know the picture but recognized him well enough. Also recognizable were the “widescreen” black strips on top and on the bottom which seems universal to all the synced pictures. There was my clue. The picture must have come from his Facebook page.

However, here is the kicker: I didn’t even know he was on Facebook. And he certainly wasn’t a Facebook friend.

So how did the picture get into my contacts when we weren’t even friends? I looked at some of the early coverage but nobody seems to have noticed this yet. What does it mean? That the Facebook app syncs via cell phone numbers against ALL Facebook members? Without checking the subset of actual Friends? Wouldn’t that be, well, a privacy issue?

Ich bin mir der Ironie bewusst, dass ich diese Blogs und Benimmregeln nicht lesen müsste. Aber es nervt einfach, wenn dann die üblichen Verdächtigen auf den Zug aufspringen und meinen, dass das ganz richtig so sei und man das ja selbst auch nie anders gemacht hätte. Wo bleiben denn die Hinweise darauf, dass es total uncool ist, wenn Leute 5x den Friend Request abschicken? Warum schreibt niemand, dass es nervt, wenn Enrico Schütze einem nicht nur mit 7 Twitter Accounts folgt, sondern dies auch jede Woche wieder neu bestätigt? Warum hängt ihr euch an diesem Popelkram wie “Bietet Mehrwert” auf? Wenn die Leute das nicht tun, werden sie schon sehen, was sie davon haben, sie Video. Etiquette beim Social Networken? Wie wäre es, wenn es erstmal “in echt” höflicher wird: lesenswerter Rant von Mathias Richel