Data control
I originally wrote this over on Google+. I'm sat at my laptop, which has a monitor attached via a digital connection. On the other side of my desk is my phone, and a tablet. That's the setup I actually have right now, as I'm
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... Embed a discussion forum in a blog post? ... Stick games in an RSS feed and have them be playable in Google Reader? ... Post an encyclopedia to Pinterest? ... Bookmark a scene in a video? ... Move my profile to another site or domain name without breaking everything? ... Create a slideshow of newspaper
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This is an excerpt from a new kind of project for me. Profile is a serial thriller about identity, the Internet and what happens when we trust companies to tell us what is and isn't true. I'm going to treat the whole process - from writing
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I've got a phone number: +1 (312) 488-9373. Feel free to call or text it. If I'm walking around, you'll get me on my Samsung Galaxy S II. If I'm in transit (but not driving), you'll probably get me on
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I'm quoted in the New York Times article about the global release of the Facebook Timeline: Mr. Werdmuller, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., said that the experience of browsing through his social history on Facebook was emotionally evocative - not unlike unearthing an old yearbook or shoebox filled
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This TEDx talk by Kaliya is worth watching:
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Last week, Doc Searls reflected that everything being worked on at the Internet Identity Workshop is meaningful to CRM: It just occurred to me that everything being worked on at IIW is meaningful to CRM. I had been thinking that only the VRM stuff was meaningful, but I realize now
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4chan's moot, aka Chris Poole, stood up at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday and painted a more complex picture of identity: "The portrait of identity online is often painted in black and white," Poole said. "Who you are online is who you are offline.
General
I believe that web intents are the last missing piece for decentralized social networking. (Previously I've talked about creating a social web architecture using Activity Streams and OAuth; this builds on that idea.) Picture this chain of events: 1. I visit your website, and see that you have
Software development
This is a more technical post than I've been writing lately. I'm considering splitting out into two blog channels; let me know if you'd prefer this. This is a request for comments and ideas. Please let me know what you think in the comments.
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The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University on June 25, 2009. What is a social network? I would like to reclaim some language: Social is an adjective that means relating to human society and its members.