Monthly Archives: June 2009

We are live with the Family Timeline!

Posted on June 25, 2009 by

[disclaimer: this post is related to my job at Glubble] It’s taken months of making plans, thinking things through, building, and testing. And now we are live. The Family Timeline is here. Glubble aims to provide families a private place … Continue reading →

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Why the iPhone will never be the biggest money generating platform

Posted on June 16, 2009 by

Tomi Ahonen has written a very long post about the history of mobile phone development  in Europe and the United States. Tomi is a well known authority in the Mobile space and is the author of the well known Communities … Continue reading →

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A personal manifesto for a User-Centric web

Posted on June 11, 2009 by

There are walls all around us. We live our lives realizing that we have to live with rules and limitations. We have laws to obey,  values to live by, families we are part off, countries we live in, services we … Continue reading →

Posted in inspiration, personal manifesto, Tim O'Reilly, user centric web, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Everybody loses in the battle over our online identity

Posted on June 10, 2009 by

Facebook announces user names. It generates a lot of buzz on Techmeme. TechCrunch reports the obvious (vanity), but Chris Messina is the only one that is actually analyzing what Facebook is doing and what impact it can have on our … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, Facebook, social networks, Tim O'Reilly, user centric web, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Social Media is bound by our human limitations

Posted on June 8, 2009 by

The definition of Social Media according to Wikipedia is: Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, social media, social networks, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

The potential power of Google Wave is far bigger than its demo

Posted on June 4, 2009 by

I was just reading this CNET post on wave. Rafe Needleman and Stephen Shankland (both working for CNET) answer questions about Google Wave in an attempt to explain what it is. Sadly, they don’t really get past the Google Wave … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, Google Wave, user centric web, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , | 12 Comments

Shifting the balance of power inside out solves many web 2.0 issues

Posted on June 3, 2009 by

What are the most important aspects for a User-Centric web to me? In a User-Centric web: I get to own my data and my interactions I control my privacy Services travel along with me, instead of me traveling to those … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, Google, Google Wave, privacy, user centric web | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment