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The Facebook Hyperlink Silo

Sep 21, 2026

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Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I saw two posts commenting on how Facebook was paywalling external hyperlinks. In order to link to an external site Facebook is now adding payed tiers. Pay one amount, and you can post more hyperlinks, pay another and you can pay fewer. Years ago people spoke of the social media…

A proposal for a crowdsourced portal acceptance system for Ingress agents.

Jan 16, 2015

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richard

in ingress, social media, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople love to submit portals and portals add excitement to Ingress. The more portals there are the busier you are. Cities are fantastic places for ingress players for this reason. Geneva, Barcelona, Neuchatel and other cities already have hundreds if not thousands of portals but go to the swiss countryside, the…

There Are Two Parts To The World Wide Web

Jul 23, 2007

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richard

in Post-university life, random, tech related

Reading Time: 3 minutesthe future of the web the search engine was the king, now it’s social networking. People had their own home page, now it’s grown to their own website. The blog was grown and grown, replacing webrings to be developed For several years the search engine was king. This was the place where…

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The Facebook Hyperlink Silo

A proposal for a crowdsourced portal acceptance system for Ingress agents.

There Are Two Parts To The World Wide Web