Friendfeed may be the early adopter RSS king, but Twitter is king of 140...
Already in 2006 Time Magazine voted the most important person on the planet to be YOU. They were dead wrong of course. In that year it wasn’t YOU that was important, it was THEM. Them meaning all of...
View ArticleWhy you would pay for a great web service
I read a good post over the weekend of one of my favorite bloggers, Kevin Kelley. The post is entitled “People want to pay”. Kevin has written a number of posts on the FREE business model and good...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 progress is held back by Web 1.0 business models
I’ve often wondered how web 2.0 is really different from web 1.0. Most seem to agree that web 2.0 was an evolution in which we went from portals and destination to data and interactions. Web 2.0 is...
View ArticleJust because Google can track your friends doesn’t make it valuable
I have an interest in new technology. I can get fascinated by the things it can bring us. I get even more enthusiastic when technology can be applied in daily life to improve things. At the same time...
View ArticleThe Facebook business model is the root cause of a lack of transparency
Mark Zuckerberg just announced that Facebook will revert back to the old terms of service as too many people complained about the new ones. I think it is a honorable that Facebook is retracting a...
View ArticleBuilding a People-Centric web is a fight for a lost cause
Don Quixote, Image taken from Wikipedia A number of posts drew my attention this week. First, 2 respectable media outlets explain us that the Facebook exodus has started. While I am not a big fan of...
View ArticleA User-Centric Web needs brand agnostic service providers
You are the most important brand A User-Centric web is by design a brand agnostic web when it comes to identity. There is only one brand, and that is you. The current web causes different types of...
View ArticleIt’s time we take responsibility when it comes to a fundamental human right...
[disclosure: a bit of shameless self promotion below] Last month the BBC contacted me about a feature they were preparing for their Fast Track show. They invited me over to give my opinion on a trend...
View ArticleWhy trying to make add block users feel guilty will never work
Ars Technica has a post up in which they argue that ad blocking software seriously hurts their main revenue stream (advertisement). A quote from that post: My argument is simple: blocking ads can be...
View ArticleWith privacy there is no middle ground
Facebook revenues Lots of posts the past few days about the current Facebook privacy issues. Mark Zuckerberg is under attack. Not just for the latest Facebook update, but also personally for an alleged...
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