Author: Michael Gillen

Everybody has a different view of social media: enthusiastic, annoyed, indifferent.  However, when it comes to being amusing, nothing beats the apocalyptic view of social media.  Nothing makes me happier than those wonderful people who view Facebook as a harbinger of the End of Days.   They’ve become increasingly rare, therefore I was pleasantly surprised to read Andrew Keen go on about how Facebook threatens to “Zuck up” the human race. Now, you probably have come across Keen’s thesis before, and he doesn’t really tread any new ground.  In a nutshell he says that the endless…

A few months back, website owners got extremely upset because Google Analytics stopped telling companies many of the keywords that people used to get to their website; specifically, they started marking all keywords used by people logged into Google accounts to be marked as (not provided), which is certainly frustrating.  Officially they swear this is for security, but what possible security breach is it for clients to see how people got to their webpages without any identifying information?  Users cried foul but, of course, Google did nothing to respond. Now, it’s been announced that…