Archives for August 2011

SPAM Brands

I just had an interesting meeting about South Africa’s anti-spam laws and how they are evolving.
The Protection of Personal Information Bill (not law yet) is being watered down by groups lobbying against it’s original Opt-In model.
What is Opt-In a…

Johannes Ernst – NetMesh: User-Centricity and Steve Jobs

Without Steve Jobs, this industry already feels like it has lost something. Something important. A key vibe, philosophy, point of view, … I was struggling with figuring out what until I discussed school work with my kid tween today. He has to write s…

The six-hour odd-couple OAuth 2.0 tour

I spent six hours with OAuth yesterday.
If you are deploying native mobile applications, run in this direction.
If you want to secure API connections to SaaS applications, Web applications or even desktop applications, run in this direction.
If you are…

Understanding the Players in the Social Data Layer | Sachin Rekhi

Singly is the company behind the Locker Project, an open-source effort to create a personal data store of all your personal data from across the web. While a useful end-user service in itself, they also plan on offering a rich set of APIs for …