David Schlesinger

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• Who Owns Your Social Graph? | 07/07/2011

  There’s a story on this issue on GigaOm, which is worth reading for context. I don’t think Facebook owns my friends. Do you think they own yours? If you think Facebook should re-enable the “Facebook Friends Exporter” extension, or—better still—simply allow people to use their own contacts as they please, “Like” this posting. Send Facebook [...]

• NEWSFLASH: World Doesn’t End For Another Ten Days! | 05/22/2011

  With all of my friends laughing it up over the failure of the much-anticipated apocalypse to appear yesterday, I was rereading some of the stuff on Camping’s (various) predictions, and I came across his statement that, “From April 1, 33 to April 1, 2011 is 1978 years”. But it isn’t: it’s 1978 years less ten [...]

• Motivation | 04/28/2011

  Alfred Hitchcock was directing a film once when a member of the cast, a “Method actor”, came running up to him, waving a script. “Mr. Hitchcock, I can’t play this scene!” the actor cried. “I don’t understand it? Why would my character say and do this? What’s my motivation?” “Your paycheck,” replied Hitchcock.

• Did Apple’s iPhone Track Lady Gaga to William and Kate’s Wedding? | 04/27/2011

  No, it didn’t. Apple made a statement confirming what I’d been suspecting: the consolidated.db file is a cache of cell tower and WiFi hotspot locations to speed up triangulation in Location Services on iOS, period. “The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your [...]

• iPhone SpyPhone? The Video! | 04/24/2011

  I had a realization yesterday that, since lots of locations—as many as 43 or more at a time—get given the same time stamp in the consolidated.db file, there wasn’t any particular reason to bucket things by week, or by day. You can get a sequential picture of what the phone was doing by simply treating [...]

• An Even Deeper Dive Into the iPhone Location Data | 04/23/2011

  [UPDATE: Check out the latest installment, "iPhone/SpyPhone?—The Music Video!", with a soundtrack by David Byrne. You can also download a higher-res version of the video, my code changes for Pete Warden's iPhoneTracker, a prebuilt version of iPhoneTracker like the one I used to make the video, and a complete copy of The Wired CD, with [...]

• A Follow-up on the iPhone Location Fracas | 04/22/2011

  [UPDATE: Check out the latest installment, "iPhone/SpyPhone?—The Music Video!", with a soundtrack by David Byrne. You can also download a higher-res version of the video, my code changes for Pete Warden's iPhoneTracker, a prebuilt version of iPhoneTracker like the one I used to make the video, and a complete copy of The Wired CD, with [...]

• iPhones and Location: Let’s Not Get Hysterical. | 04/21/2011

  [UPDATE: Check out the latest installment, "iPhone/SpyPhone?—The Music Video!", with a soundtrack by David Byrne. You can also download a higher-res version of the video, my code changes for Pete Warden's iPhoneTracker, a prebuilt version of iPhoneTracker like the one I used to make the video, and a complete copy of The Wired CD, with [...]

• Facebook Get Even Sillier | 04/19/2011

  I’m not talking about the policies here, I’m talking about the implementation. A Canadian newspaper, the Examiner, is using Facebook’s much-touted commenting system on their site. When someone likes a comment you made there, or adds a comment to a thread in which you participated, you get a notification of it, right on Facebook. Innit [...]

• The Pomodoro Technique | 04/19/2011

  I’m going to be writing more about this shortly, as a follow-on to my previous posting on To-Do lists and their perils.