Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Last month Daniel Berninger wrote a guest column expressing the benefits of using high definition codec for voice communication. In that post, Dan argues that widespread use of compatible codecs is critical. When we decided to use a wideband codec in EnThinnai, we also faced the problem of compatibility. More importantly, we decided that our […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Tom Evslin continues to add further details to the (Un)Social Directory that is under development at FWD. In today’s post, he explains the reasons for findability feature and how it may work. The reasons for findability are elemental: after all we are all social creatures and are interested in interacting with others. Permission based communication […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
After a post by Daniel Berninger on directories and my direct response in how EnThinnai has implemented directory, Tom Evslin has spelled out his views on how to design what he calls an (un)social directory. Since his description of how a directory should work is close to what we have implemented in EnThinnai and his […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Daniel Berninger periodically writes in GigaOm under an evocative banner called “Here Comes Trouble”. These posts follow a familiar pattern: Historically the business model (invariably referring to the traditional telecoms) has been to have a control over the users, usually aided by monopolistic and regulatory environments; given the distributed nature of IP Communications, such control […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
In one of today’s post, Michael Arrington takes issue with the big Internet companies for their lack of support for accepting OpenID credentials from others. He argues that … [they] have made big press announcements about their support for OpenID, but haven’t done enough to actually implement it. … Putting my conspiracy theory hat on, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2008 3 Comments »
Last week we learnt that UK based newspaper Telegraph will provide OpenID to its users. When Yahoo announced only a few days earlier, there was a general euphoria. But this time around the reaction has been lukewarm. Johannes Ernst’s reaction is noteworthy. Given the general perception that first movers will gain strategic advantage, he feels […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s big news item related to our industry was that MySpace reached an agreement with 49 of the 50 state attorneys general that it will lead the fight to stop sex predators. Based on the news reports that it will work on among other things developing better technology to screen out underage users age and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
I came across this site ostensibly belonging to Joseph Poon. His idea is to instead of distributing a standard business card he will give one that contains the URL of that site and an access key. To get his contact information, one has to go this site and enter the access key. Then you will […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
There are reports that Google, IBM and Verisign are planning to join OpenID Foundation. But it is not clear what does this really mean. Verisign is already an OpenID Provider. Will the other two also become OPs? Since Blogger (which is part of Google) will accept OpenID as a way to authenticate commenters, will Google […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday Robert Scoble was in the news more than usual. He used a toll provided by Plaxo to scrape Facebook to retrieve his friends’ data. Since Facebook considers this to be against their Terms of Service, they blocked his account, but subsequently unblocked it. But before his account was unblocked he took questions from people […]