Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2007 No Comments »
We read more and more stories of users expressing concern about Facebook’s recent ad program called Beacon that monitors users’ activities at partners’ sites and report the friends in Facebook. Some are concerned that friends are notified indiscriminately and others do not want even Facebook to be notified by the partner sites in the first […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2007 2 Comments »
In today’s post “Phoneboy” talks about the need for a federated identity in the context of Jangl. He frames the context by describing the need for correlating his identity in Facebook that Jangl recognizes with his native Jangl identity. Even though Jangl is willing to do this correlation, he observes that it has taken a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2007 No Comments »
In preparation of Internet Identity Workshop, Johannes Ernst is soliciting discussion questions. One of the sample questions he poses is “How do identity providers make money?” He goes on to state that, “The answer is very much still in the air.” ID providers like Vidoop have some plans because they plan to offer some rewards […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2007 No Comments »
This morning the chatter level is high regarding Wall Street Journal story regarding Google’s GDrive. It is not clear what the excitement all about is. After all Google is already providing me a storage space of 5GB, via GMail. Without minimizing its benefit, the difference will be only in the UI. But what will be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Concerns have been raised regarding who owns the content generated and shared by users in public networks like Facebook. For example, Dan York notes in a post from July that for all the desirable qualities of Facebook, the data can freely flow into but can not easily flow out of such networks. Furthermore he observes […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 17th, 2007 3 Comments »
A couple of weeks back I presented a talk at VON Fall 2007, that abstracts the service objectives and the driving philosophy behind EnThinnai. Here it is (a feeble attempt at emulating Lessig style presentation): | View | Upload your own
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2007 No Comments »
In a whimsical mood, I had tagged EnThinnai to be an un-social networking application, in the spirit of uncola campaign from the 70’s. Many didn’t react positively to this tag line as they were equating to “anti-social”. So we have decided to disuse that tag line, even though it has been a conversation starter. Since […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday Oracle launched an internal social networking application (Hat tip: Anne Zelenka) called Oracle Mix: “Mix is our combination social network, idea sharing site, group collaboration tool, and answers forum.” Interestingly, when the initial planning stages, the team was bombarded with many questions. One of the interesting one was: “Would I be able to invite […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2007 No Comments »
In a post yesterday, Saul Hansell wrote in The New York Times’ Bits Blog that Google and Yahoo are planning on using email as a backbone of a social environment. As a concluding thought he stated that, “running social networks is like starting nightclubs” and since Google and Yahoo already have hundreds of millions of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Two weeks back, one of my inspirational leaders Tom Evslin announced that he is taking on the duties of CTO for FWD International. In that post, he revealed that FWD International will be “[e] nabling voice, video, and other forms of communication into and between social media sites and connecting that all with other networks.” […]