Tag Archives: identity

The web needs to be bigger than Facebook

Posted on April 23, 2010 by vanelsas

I’ve thought a bit about the announcements that Facebook has just made to make the entire web ‘social’. GigaOm has a good writeup about that here. On the surface their attempt at socializing the web fits a transformation of a  … Continue reading →

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To be free we need to break free of web 2.0 thinking

Posted on October 29, 2009 by vanelsas

You’re meeting someone at a party for the first time. He introduces himself to you. “Hi. I’m Tim Eastwood. I’m 29 years old, live in San Francisco. I’m married to Laura, have 3 children Joe, James, and Jenny.” During the … Continue reading →

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Everybody loses in the battle over our online identity

Posted on June 10, 2009 by vanelsas

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