Twitter spam is a frequent occurrence, and I typically ignore it, but not today. This morning I received this message from an account that has been spamming people for several days. I did my duty and reported the account for spam and…nothing. I did a little research and discovered that the director of Twitter’s Trust [...]

Tags: Coase, Harvey, public goods, spam, Stone, The Lighthouse in Economics, Twitter, Williams
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When Google Buzz came out last week, most of my friends spent the first day messing with it and then promptly turned it off or ignored it. Everyone is already using Facebook, and some of them are on Twitter; the last thing we need is another social network to check. Nevertheless, I think there are [...]

Tags: Buzz, Facebook, Google, PubSubHubbub, Salmon, social networking, Twitter, WebFinger
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