SwitchAbit as the great data switchboard in the cloud
Just stumbled upon this (no longer remember how): Link: At SwitchAbit, Twittergram Shares a Common Future – GigaOM So what is a SwitchAbit? Think of it as...
Category: Strategy
Mowser and dotMobi: Ouch, the cognitive dissonance is huge here for me
What do I get when I mix a top level domain I really do not like, with a concept (transcoding) that I have been grappling with for years, and two really smart g...
Plug: Design event coverage on Nokia Conversations
Just wanted to say that, even though I could not attend, Nokia Conversations is covering the Open Studio event in London today (29apr). We have two writers ther...
Blood from stone: Don’t focus on ad revenue from social networking services
Ok, so it’s not a revelation when I say that you don’t need to make money off your core service. Your core service drives the interaction with the c...
Loïc muses – Global Or Die: Is There A Future For Local Startups?
Loïc wrote a great article (with video) on global thinking for start-ups, with a ton of great tips (link below). But, I think he’s being a bit narrow-mind...
Biology is messy! Synthetic biology will be synthetically messy, too! (plus BONUS)
I’ve been reading about iGEM and the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. It’s a component view of biology – that there are parts in biology...
The different angles of lifestreams – what’s yours?
I was playing with Six Apart’s Action Streams. It allows me to put a lifestream of all _my_ activities across all _my_ social networks into a single strea...
Bacteria still rule: Great Long Now seminar by Craig Venter (and Bonus!)
I finally got to listen to the Long Now seminar by Craig Venter. And, wow, was it great. If you’ve been a regular reader of mine, you know that I think Ve...
Digging up an old article on social networks that turned out to be prophetic (and a bonus!)
I stumbled upon (pushed by alexdc, I think) this old article, by Chris Allen, from early 2005 about the maxing-out of social connections (link below). What stri...
The turkey and the butcher
Just wanted to get this little ditty out: I was listening to a very interesting Long Now seminar by Nassim Taleb, about his insight into randomness, predictabil...