I was pleased to read today about Facebook's rapid enlightenment on the need for easy to use privacy settings. That it comes as a reaction to Google+'s Circles feature (which has been widely praised for it's usability), is enormously satisfying. Not only do we now h...

Several month's ago I read a fascinating article by John Naughton. He was looking at social media successes - such as Wikipedia and MySpace - and asking the obvious question: who would have thought this would work? When planning to create a new encyclopaedia, you would ...