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Wired reports that a group involved in the Occupy movement is working on its own decentralized social networking platform: “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a
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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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November was a hard blogging month for me. I managed two posts: a single embedded TEDx talk (albeit one by Kaliya, who I respect greatly), and one about Thanksgiving. I just didn't have it in me. You see, I don't love tech on its own; I
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This year, I had my first ever American Thanksgiving with my whole nuclear family. We've celebrated it before in the States, but never quite managed to get the whole family round the table - and in doing so, I realized what a positive holiday it is. Being thankful
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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.
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Yesterday, I joined the Post-PC era by upgrading my iPad to iOS 5. Yes, the upgrade process wiped all of my applications and data, but once I'd put everything back together again, the result was a faster, more streamlined device that works much better than it did with
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In some ways, the web industry seems to have lost its way. From empowering users and smashing incumbent gatekeepers, the emphasis is now on how to raise the next round of funding and convert active users into their maximum possible value.. My piece about Facebook, contextual identity and radical transparency
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As an application developer, I have advance access to the Facebook Timeline that Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday. Here it is: At first glance, it's a rather beautiful replacement for the social media profiles we've been using since forever. Rather than simply listing your latest content, the
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In my spare time, I'm building an independent community for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) researchers, doctors, sufferers and their families. IPF is a degenerative lung disease which builds up scar tissue over time, restricting the patient's ability to breathe. It's generally fatal and has
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latakoo's in TechCrunch today: Jon Orlin, who runs TechCrunch TV, was initially a skeptic. But he did some beta and real world testing and was very impressed. Orlin says “Latakoo solves a real problem for us. We recently had some large HD video files shot for our Keen