Archive for May, 2008

What Facebook SHOULD do

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Sarah Perez posted a great post of all these coolio things one SHOULD be able to do on Facebook. Sarah got it right - almost.
So in the spirit of “Let’s just blog it” - heres what I think Facebook should do.
NOTE: This is really in preparation for a promised meeting with Dave Morin. […]

What SHOULD set top boxes be

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Now that the NetFlix Roku is out, we can revisit the time honored tradition of speculating over set top boxes.
Clearly Apple is going to be a player in this arena, just as much as the Moxi box and Charter are non-players.
Cisco buying Scientific-Atlanta promises that those folks aren’t going away, though I wouldn’t look for […]

I switch to a different kind of politics

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Arianna Huffington’s eloquent praise of Hillary Clinton and the accomplishments she’s made for women really struck me where it counts.
Huffington talks about a moment on TV when Hilary goes teary over Chelsea’s involvement in her campaign. Huffington admits she got teary at that moment - too. Well guess what? I did too.
Huffington […]

Mid-May blogging - amidst the heat

Monday, May 19th, 2008

I chaperoned my eldest son’s after-prom set tonight. I’m a McGill Dad.
Here’s the first draft of the comparative features and policies matrix Daniela Barbosa - the new leader of dataportability.org is working on.  Now that Daniela has stepped up - much of the game playing is over.
I sure hope the food doesn’t stick - […]

Some conversaton is better than none “Hey Marc!”

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

A very famous person who spells his first name the right way blogged about a post I put up yesterday.
I can’t find a way to leave a comment on his post, so I’ll use this lovely Sunday morning as an opportunity to take up his offer of a conversation, though it has (obviously) nothing to […]

The people united will never be defeated

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

As some people are astutely pointing out, humans have been moving their data around for years.
And whether Facebook likes it or not, its gonna happen.

And now we’re hearing about other products and other ways to get at your data.
This can’t be stopped.
The cat is out of the bag. 
What we need is dynamic privacy - working […]

Its too hot to do anything but blog

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Does this mean Dan Farber is taking over for Katie Corcic?
I hope everyone knows what our company stands for
I’m gonna try and make it to Om’s get together tomorrow
AOL goes niche
I love my Flip - gotta check out the Vado
I love it when rich people gang up on each other
It’s GREAT to see Dare Obasanjo […]

How SHOULD dynamic privacy work?

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Dave Morin of Facebook included in his description of Facebook Connect the notion of ‘dynamic privacy’. Debate has surrounded this issue - mainly centered on “how could we possibily trust Facebook to implement dynamic privacy correctly?” (Given their current TOS and attitude towards anything that allows their user’s data to leave their system.
Mark Zuckerberg […]

I do not compromise

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Michael Arrington just accused me of compromising. He said I must be trying to sell my company or suck up to one of the big platforms for a consulting agreement.
I beg to differ.
I pointed Michael to my post on:
“The Religion of Bringing Social to Software”
In this post I analyze a new trend I’m seeing; […]

Report from the Data Sharing Summit #2

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Its great to see Arrington and others wake up to the battle that’s waging not only over dataportability, but also over the basic rights of user’s data. This is something I’ve been screaming about for years and why we did the Bill of Rights for Users of Social Media (which Michael is a co-author […]