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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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Chrome OS and the web as applications
It’s not a Google strategy, but they’ve chosen to embrace and extend it: the web is turning into an application platform. Google announced Chrome OS today – an operating system for netbooks, designed...
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Keeping the web decentralized
Tim Berners-Lee has an article in December’s Scientific American about the future of the web. It serves, in many ways, as a list of baselines – things that should be obvious to anyone who’s worked with...
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httpID: adding identity to standard HTTP requests
This is a more technical post than I’ve been writing lately. I’m considering splitting out into two blog channels; let me know if you’d prefer this. This is a request for comments and ideas. Please let...
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Patronism and monetizing the social web
This post is adapted from something I wrote on Google+. There are more comments over there; also see Evan Promodou’s riff on the same idea. Google+’s combination of streams and circles works. So here’s...
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Decentralized social networking using web intents
I believe that web intents are the last missing piece for decentralized social networking. (Previously I’ve talked about creating a social web architecture using Activity Streams and OAuth; this builds...
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Occupy Facebook: innovation in the era of social protest
Wired reports that a group involved in the Occupy movement is working on its own decentralized social networking platform: “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own...
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Identity is the operating system
I’ve got a phone number: +1 (312) 488-9373. Feel free to call or text it. If I’m walking around, you’ll get me on my Samsung Galaxy S II. If I’m in transit (but not driving), you’ll probably get me on...
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Here’s what Google+ could have been
Confession: I want to like Google+. I think competition is a great thing, and Google is in a unique position to do something fascinating with social platforms. It’s also significant that a lot of...
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Off the hooks: user-centered development in a mobile-first world
The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at Over the Air 2012 at Bletchley Park on June 2nd, 2012. They build on my notes for a previous talk, Building the user-centered web. Desktop...
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Making billions of dollars from the federated social web
Diaspora was pretty exciting. A Kickstarter campaign that promised it all: a platform created “for everyone to have full control over their data and to empower people in to become responsible, secure,...
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Imagine this: identity computing
I originally wrote this over on Google+. I’m sat at my laptop, which has a monitor attached via a digital connection. On the other side of my desk is my phone, and a tablet. That’s the setup I actually...
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Facebook Graph Search is super-powerful – if all your friends obsessively...
Facebook’s new Graph Search is an exceptionally powerful idea. Here are some searches I’m looking forward to running: Bars my friends like in San Francisco My friends who like Doctor Who and live near...
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The Progressive (Profitable) Web
Ryan Holiday laments the loss of Google Reader and RSS in general in Our Regressive Web, arguing that if someone came up with them today, we’d think they were brilliant ideas: Nothing better has risen...
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Decentralized comments and the IndieWeb
I just stumbled on this old thread by Marc Canter and Stephen Downes (emphasis mine): I think that so long as we leave content on other people’s sites (or in their in-boxes) we will have the dual...
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