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Adapting to the real world
I’ve spent the last week in a series of very interesting mind-sharing meetings. First, the American Association of Colleges & Universities flew me into Washington DC to discuss the future of...
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Charging for software in the age of web apps
Google was an advertising company. Back in 2005, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber described Google’s business as follows: Judged by their profits, Google is an advertising company. They don’t profit from...
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Using game dynamics to drive participation
Going out and checking in I’ve been using Foursquare quite a bit lately (here’s my profile). There’s a lot to be impressed by: not least the level of mobile integration. Foursquare doesn’t make much...
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How social networks can replace email
The analysis firm Gartner just released five key predictions for social software: By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20...
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Activity Streams and OAuth: a social web architecture
My previous post was a response to Gartner’s prediction last month that social networking would replace email as the “primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.”...
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Direct messaging in a social web architecture
This post is the third segment in my series on an architecture for the social web. Previously: How social networks can replace email, which is a non-technical approach to the issues, and my follow-up...
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Could Lion Server herald a new breed of enterprise apps?
Together with today’s Mac OS X Lion release, Apple also released a set of server extensions in the App Store for $49. To run Lion Server on your machine, you make sure you’re running Lion (available...
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You can’t empower users by targeting ads
Scott Hanselman has a great take on platforms and ownership on the web: Why doesn’t someone make a free or cheap social network for the people? Why can’t I control my content? Why can’t I export...
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