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Me 2.0 (and how I got there)
A few days ago, I celebrated my birthday and was pinged on Facebook by friends and family congratulating me on being another year older (!). Along with those good wishes, I also got a few virtual pats on the back, commenting on how healthy I was looking...
Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE
I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson , discussing FREE . The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy ; the Attention...
Among the dynamos, My Data and advice for startups.
SaaS / DaaS / WaaS (Whatever As a Service) and Mashups Nick Carr quotes Henry Adams in Among the dynamos “One lingered long among the dynamos,” he wrote, “for they were new, and they gave to history a new phase. Pointing to SaaS Platforms trends , Clive...
What I'm reading...
There are a whole bunch of interesting posts / stuff I find on the net that I bookmark on del.icio.us (at least, I think they are interesting). Over the years I've been experimenting with different ways of sharing these with you. My most recent solution...
OAuth Podcast
Chris Messina (aka FactoryJoe ), Larry Halff (of Ma.gnolia ) and Eran Hammer-Lahav accepted our invitation to join Ted and me and discuss OAuth in our latest Bungee Line podcast . What is OAuth? From OAuth Getting Started - Part 1 , here's the jist of...
Facebook export - WTF????
On hearing the news over at TechCrunch that I'm able to export my social network data out of Facebook as a .CSV file using the FriendCSV app , I did exactly that. I have 74 contacts on Facebook but I managed to export 144 records . That's 70-odd people...
LibraryThing again
I ended the day re - visiting my LibraryThing . Glad I did...I had forgotten how damn good it is. Time to update my catalog with about a year's lot of books. Worth doing since I can get my data out and re-use elsewhere . Otherwise, why would I bother...
My data - let me use as I choose
I read Chris Messina's post this morning, "A Bill of Righteous Intent" where he discusses the draft manifesto: A Bill of Rights for Users . I liked what I read. The manifesto supports the concept of what I've been calling "my data". In short, my data...
Closed is Still the Old Closed.
Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Chief Architect and the man behind Windows Cardspace (was infoCard), has shared his perspective the question of whether or not OpenID would make customers' lives better on social networks. There appears to be a general agreement...
Chase.com - is this your idea of transparent marketing?
This ad popped up on the Chase.com site this morning. Overlayed is what looks like internal codes from their customer segmention model. Either this is shown in error, or, Chase is taking the notion of transparent marketing a little too literally.
The Joker gets an ID Card
Ever since I heard of the UK government's plans for an ID card system, I've felt for a number of reasons that it wouldn't work and that there would be 'unintended consequences', including making it easier for cybercriminals to commit...
Posted: Jan 25 2007, 07:05 PM by alexbarnett | with 2 comment(s)
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A little less conversation a little more action please
On APML , I tend to agree with what Stowe has said on the topic and John Tropea has some good thoughts too . To Marjolein - frankly, I'm getting tired of the attention conversation. Not because I believe it is not worthy idea, but because there's...
Privacy Policies should have RSS feeds
James Governor and Kevin Murphy both agree: site Privacy Policies should have RSS feeds. Absolutely.
Posted: Sep 04 2006, 03:57 PM by admin | with 1 comment(s)
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Search & Enjoy! (Podcast) The Power of Search and Recommendation
"Speakers from Microsoft, Blinkx and Last.fm discussed issues of content regarding search, recommendation, the semantic web and the ownership of data in the Web 2.o era at Content 2.0 on 6th June 2006." I was on the panel with Matthew Ogle of...
MSN Search Champs Podcast - Privacy conversation
I attended the MSN Search Champs today....and what a day. Given the recent news and concerns around the data MSN Search, Yahoo and AOL provided to the government, there was a session set up where the 57 bloggers / online experts at MSN Search Champ were...
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