Response to Christian’s post: Fragility of Digital Life
Christian Lindholm has a rough end of year, electronics-wise (link below). Machines acting up, licenses expiring, and data at risk. It brings up an running disc...
Category: Strategy
Tweeps on the analyst couch
In the past week or two, a few of my tweeps, Alex, @alexdc, and Sue, @dswaters, both from different circles (indeed, one in Miami the other in Perth), did a bit...
Socialstream – a project on Unified Social Networks
One thing that has been bugging me for a while is that, while we discuss the demise of the Website due to the fragmentation of the Web, we don’t seem to b...
A WiFi mesh network for the Haj
There is something absolutely exotic about this set-up. Maybe it’s the medieval setting, maybe it’s the history of the Hajj, or maybe it’s bec...
Among other random news, Six Apart spins off Livejournal
I was in California this week and stopped by, as usual, to say hello at Six Apart. Lots of things have happened since I last saw them, some that I knew already,...
Anyone have social graphs from Twitter?
I would love to see the stats on the numbers of direct, @, and general twits mapped against the total followed and followers per Twitter user. I think the tight...
Book by Craig Venter – A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
Well, I was wondering when someone would write a book about Venter (who deserves a Nobel, a few times over). Turns out he wrote one himself. I think I gotta get...
Stephen Johnston in Vodafone Receiver #19 on: Thoughts on 3.0 – this time with added You-nicorn
Stephen Johnston has contributed an article to Vodafone’s Receiver mag (see link below). Cool (way to go, Stephen). He pegs the current discussion around ...
mTrends on Dopplr going mobile
Rudy, over at mTrends is breaking the story that Dopplr will launch a mobile version tomorrow. Good for them. It’s been really nice to see Dopplr slowly g...
A new mobile site creator
Got a note from David Berube about his new MoFuse. He’s based in Rhode Island, of all places, not known to be a hot-bed of mobile dev work. That it’...