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June 14, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

How Facebook

Improving ads, wow, how excited should I be? Just to be clear what this message really means is that Facebook is now actively collating all of the data that it collects about you from every website that you visit that has those cute little Facebook Like buttons and is using that …

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May 11, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

Keybase and MediaWiki

I’m really intrigued by what Keybase.io is doing with identity. The ability to cryptographically prove your identity on the web without a centralized party like Twitter or Facebook owning the approval process is a needed function. I setup my profile and you can now prove on your …

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May 11, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

keybase.io

I have my profile setup on Keybase.io. Keybase is an interesting product using public key cryptography in a decentralized way to allow identities to be known without having to meet people in person, but instead through public proof.

May 10, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

Profile Photo (May 2014)

I figured it was time to move to a new profile photo on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Heck, even Google Plus. I try to use the same one everywhere to be consistent. Putting this blog post here so I can easily find it to use in the future.


Man in a dark blazer and blue plaid shirt standing outdoors with green trees and foliage in the background.
May 10, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

The Worst “Mark all as read” Button Ever

If you login to Twitter and go to your Direct Messages you press a button to mark all as read, and then you have to confirm. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “Mark all as read” button that looks so foreboding. That looks like a “Watch out what you push because everything will be …

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May 7, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

Love this!

CTO = Culture + Technology + Operations

— Rajiv Pant राजीव पंत 潘睿哲 🪷 (@rajivpant) May 7, 2014
April 29, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

Frontline: Generation Like

Tammy and I watched this Frontline: Generation Like tonight. If you are at all curious about how the social media ecosystem works, where the revenue is, what the motivation behind the users is check this out. Very well done episode with a lot of insight. So much of what happens …

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February 8, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

Has anyone done a network sniff in Facebook Paper to see what behaviors it is reporting back to the mothership? #notrust

February 2, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

Facebook won’t let you delete a friend list!? Only archive it? There is ad targeting value in that too? (removed all members instead)

January 21, 2014 Jamie Thingelstad

Congrats! Awesome!

Looking forward to talking at @mtnwestdevops in the company of such illustrious folks: http://t.co/zYScuFwZf7. Exciting! :)

— Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout) January 21, 2014
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