Category Archives: Facebook

Curated computing: jargon (sometimes) is a good thing

Curated Computing: Fancy cynical analyst term. Here is Forrester Research declaring a new era (‘Post-iPad’, no less). A consumer can do anything with a Windows PC or Mac… the iPad operates very differently. [It] works more like a jukebox than … Continue reading

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Expanding social networks and shortening attention spans

Leo Babauta of Zen Habits fame has ditched email and will primarily use Twitter: … the people I communicate with the most are (mostly) on Twitter. What I love about Twitter is that it’s very limited (140 characters), so you … Continue reading

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What you need to do to be the next Google/Twitter/Facebook

Yesterday and today The Web has been through two major evolutionary stages, and we are seeing some major activity in the third evolutionary stage. The first was the “early web” – through most of the 90s and until the dot-com … Continue reading

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Phone, meet IM

Being able to choose to be contacted by either voice, IM or SMS is an extremely attractive proposition. Using all three from the same device, though, is the holy grail of unified communication. With VoIP, smartphones and IM, we might … Continue reading

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The Mobile Internet Lifestyle

(This post began as a reply to a comment question on my previous blog post about iPhone 3G. It’s also a complete re-write of an earlier post.) My experience with the Internet on my Nokia N82 has been more than … Continue reading

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Social networks – goodbye STP

Seth Godin quotes Gavin Potter about the 21st century being about ‘sorting out demand’. “When your messages reach the right people at the right time in the right way, magic happens”, Seth says. Social networks are changing that. In fact, … Continue reading

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The Three Degrees of Personalization

Facebook’s Beacon brought some spice to the tech community, which had been longing for some juicy stuff to blog/discuss/pontificate about since the iPhone’s launch several months ago. Beacon is (was?) part of Facebook’s new online ad system which shared a … Continue reading

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Reader: Google's new social network

Steve Rubel talks about the significance about the new “Friends’ Shared Items ” feature on Google Reader. I was about to write about this, but Steve’s put it better than I’d planned. The popular RSS reader now lets you easily … Continue reading

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Yahoo!: Powered by Community

I’ve been thinking of the difference (and similarities) between Y! Answers and Wikipedia, and then about Yahoo!’s true strength. Excerpts from an email I wrote a friend: … if you can get inputs from not only patients, but medical practitioners, … Continue reading

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