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The Airtime video chat gamble

 The Conversation published my article on the problems of Airtime, the new Facebook video chat service.

Source: Airtime

I argue that Airtime offers little that is new, it’s not on board the group video chat zeitgeist, and it has significant privacy issues.

Read the full article @

Rintel, S. (2012, June 18). Airtime’s Facebook video service gambles on the kindness of strangers. The Conversation (Online).

Also syndicated in:

Rintel, S. (2012, June 21). Facebook’s funniest home video service. Technology Spectator (Online).

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Mass exodus from Facebook due to fatigue, rise of alternatives such as Google+

I commented (briefly) in The Sunday Mail about Facebook fatigue and the rise of Google+.

Tin, J. (2011, August 14, 5:00pm) Mass exodus from Facebook due to fatigue, rise of alternatives such as Google+. The Sunday Mail.

“University of Queensland digital communications expert Dr Sean Rintel also pointed to interest in Google+, which has attracted some 25 million users within the space of less than two months, many of whom were poached from Facebook.”

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The Courier Mail | The Sunday Mail

Or here (just a tiny bit ironically given the paper’s slogan):