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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 in some recent photos and asked for details on...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-12-2011
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 Economy ; and the Reputation Economy . Rose leads...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-03-2008
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 Keyte write about " SaaS Management Platforms ...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-24-2008
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 has been to include my del.icio.us links within...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-21-2008
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 it: "OAuth allows you to share your private resources...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-03-2007
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's "social data" including education, work experience...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-23-2007
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?

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-21-2007
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 is mine because I generated it. Because I generated...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-06-2007
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 that allowing a Single Sign On (SSO) service across...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-17-2007
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.

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-17-2007

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