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Kim Cameron – Microsoft: Gov2.0 and Facebook ‘Like’ Buttons

8 December 2010 by Kim Cameron

I couldn’t agree more with the points made by identity architect James Brown in a very disturbing piece he has posted at The Other James Brown.
James explains how the omnipresent Facebook widget works as a tracking mechanism: if you are a …

Social, Interest and Purpose: The Three Graphs

7 December 2010 by Phil Wolff

Nathaniel Whittemore wrote last week about the intersection of the social graph and the interest graph. He argues the two graphs are so different that businesses should craft different strategies for them. There’s a third graph; I’ll add that in a…

The real de(tai)l

3 December 2010 by Drummond Reed

Techcrunch had a link to this simply excellent blog post about the details behind the readability of Google Maps. It’s like a mini-Malcolm Gladwell essay devoted just to showing why it really is the details that make the difference when it comes to i…

Podcast Episode 4: David Siegel

2 December 2010 by admin

David Siegel Interview: In this podcast Aldo talks to David Siegel, author of Pull, a book about the shift from pushing information to pulling it. In particular, David talks about the importance of Personal Data Lockers in the emerging semantic web.