Michael Gracie 

And what about the app providers themselves Kristen Nicole asked: “When Did Facebook Get More Spammy than MySpace?” It’s all the buzz since the BBC reported that a widget third-party application can be used to gather personal data on its users – Facebook security. Why there is an expectation that social network abuse wouldn’t grow [...]

VCs are doing it. Should you? It’s pretty obvious by looking at these pages that I don’t have much taste for widgets. Now, it seems, at least one blogging venture capitalist is taking widgets to task – cleaning them out because they slow down page loading time. While I’d like to say I’m a trendsetter, [...]

widg·et [wij-it] –noun 1. a small mechanical device, as a knob or switch, esp. one whose name is not known or cannot be recalled; 2. something considered typical or representative, as of a manufacturer’s products; There are no widgets here, but that’s just personal preference (and the starkness is just a reflection of the owner). [...]

This website will eventually contain select contents of the previous Spamroll.com and Thoughtmarket.com blogs (the moment I find someone who really knows how to import the stuff), as well as all future goings on. Meanwhile, I’ve chosen a sparse design for which tweaking will be kept to a minimum. The reasoning – many sites have [...]

Hot on the heels of revelations that Windows Genuine Advantage is doing a little more than its EULA says, someone may have found a similar occurence with the latest OS X update. Apple’s new Dashboard Advisory, which attempts to authenticate widgets, seems relatively harmless (meaning it isn’t passing information back to Apple). Unfortunately, that isn’t [...]