Category Archives: identity

The useful convergence of data

Posted on January 3, 2008 by

I have only one prediction for 2008. I think we’re finally about to see the useful combination of the 4 W’s – Who, What, Where, and When. Marc Davis has done some interesting research in this area at Yahoo!, and … Continue reading →

Posted in behavior, community, data, design, future, ideas, identity, innovation, local, marketing, personalization, programmableweb, recommendations, semanticweb, social, theory, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Data dynamics: How the rules of sharing are changing

Posted on November 13, 2007 by

Today it’s easy to store and share my pictures, my favorite URLs, my thoughts and lots of other things online. There are a range of data repositories that allow me to do this kind of thing in different ways. What … Continue reading →

Posted in api, architecture, authentication, community, data, identity, privacy, rss, web services | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The business of network effects

Posted on August 15, 2007 by

The Internet platform business has some unique challenges. It’s very tempting to adopt known models to make sense of it, like the PC business, for example, and think of the Internet platform like an operating system. The similarities are hard … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, behavior, dareobasanjo, data, development, future, ideas, identity, innovation, jasonkottke, marketing, media, models, network, network effects, nick carr, participation, peer production, personalization, platform, recommendations, semanticweb, social media, strategy, trends | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Micah Laaker joins us on YDN

Posted on February 28, 2007 by

Friend and colleague Micah Laaker just joined us on the YDN team. You may recognize his name from the classic ACLU Pizza video that he directed. Here it is in case you haven’t seen it or forgot how great it … Continue reading →

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A start page on my own domain

Posted on February 23, 2007 by

With a quick copy and paste job using Kent Brewster’s Pipes Badger and a few widgets from services I use, I now have what is a mostly sufficient start page on my own domain that displays my various forms of … Continue reading →

Posted in aggregation, attention, identity, personalization, pipes, rss, socialmedia, start pages, widgets | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

The breakthrough that is MyBlogLog

Posted on January 8, 2007 by

There’s something very uncomfortable about seeing your face appear on another web site while you’re visiting it. That’s exactly why I think MyBlogLog is going to be a really big deal. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens now that … Continue reading →

Posted in attention, behavior, email, future, history, identity, innovation, meme, mybloglog, socialmedia, socialnetworks, startup, yahoo | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Top 5 new business ideas

Posted on December 5, 2006 by

The month of lists has begun, so I decided to rank the business ideas from the last year that could or should be a big deal in the next year. Most of these ideas and companies have actually been around … Continue reading →

Posted in answers, apis, attention, behavior, development, future, ideas, identity, innovation, interestingness, last.fm, leadership, models, social media, startup, strategy | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

MySpace reinvented email

Posted on April 29, 2006 by

Somebody recently referred to MySpace as “Outlook for teenagers”. Wow, what an interesting way to visualize the paradigm shift. I had trouble grasping why it was that kids were referring to their MySpace experience using phrases that imply addiction, but … Continue reading →

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