Social media is overhyped, overcooked, and overvalued
We are now in a social networking bubble. Social networking is useful, but it’s overvalued. We’ve overstated and overemphasized the utility of social networking and are now in a marketer’…
Archives for October 2010
We are the disrobots
21 October 2010 by
Our technology and our society have reached a point where our privacy can be automatically impinged. We have fully automated disrobing ourselves. We have created the disrobot – a machine or process which automates the stripping away of the veil of pr…
Social Dynamics: Why Facebook and Skype don’t belong together
18 October 2010 by
Skype and Facebook shared their first steps at integration. I suggested many opportunities for feature and business synergy.
However…
You have two networks that really don’t belong together. Facebook is sexy chocolate and Skype is nutritional soup…
Declarative References to Data
16 October 2010 by
The following blog post by Phil Windley of Kynetx describes the concept of declarative references to data:
http://www.windley.com/archives/2010/08/beyond_apis_declarative_references_to_data.shtml
Basically, the idea is that with XRI and XDI, it is poss…