What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t.
Business week has an interesting article on the economics of platforms. Interesting, but flawed. They compare two platforms (Facebook, and Apple’s mobile platform). The argument goes roughly as follows: Apple is using it’s platform to create a new market by being open and Facebook is using traditional methods of using [...]
I have this page elsewhere on this site where I try to keep track of various accounts I have with social networks and other sites. I updated it earlier today with some interesting additions.
It seems finally decentralized social networking is starting to happen. It’s all very low profile now but promising. It all started somewhere [...]
It seems JanRain is finally readying the final version of OpenID 2.0. There’s a great overview of some concerns that I mostly share on readwriteweb.com. Together with another recent standard (OAuth), OpenID 2.0 could be a huge step forward for web security and privacy.
Lets start with what OpenID is about and why, generally, it is [...]
I just installed Flock - The Social Web Browser. Right now I’m trying out the blog editor included with it to write this little review. To cut the review short, I’m planning uninstalling it after publishing this post.
Lets just start by saying that this feels like a nice bunch of concepts and potentially useful Firefox [...]
It seems I’ve been unaware of the little revolution that has been unfolding since May 24th. Before that, facebook was yet another social network popular mostly in the US. On that date, facebook opened up their API and made it possible for people to integrate their 3rd party services into facebook. Marc Andreesen explained the [...]
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