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Will Diaspora Fail?

The huge amount of public anticipation and scrutiny of their activities is not going to be particularly helpful.

The Shock of the Now

Are Google and Facebook obliterating the web?

Closed Social

Antisocial Networking couldn't have popped up at a better time for me, as I was actually sitting here, struggling with nascent suspicions about the nature of the XFN microformat. I've been designing…

A Simple Model for Sharing

How to leverage the power of personal websites to share private information with your direct personal contacts.

Both useful and meaningful?

On the frequency of Facebook redesigns, and user reactions.

MCS Week of Code

This week I've got an interesting side project, working as a mentor with a group of MCS students who are learning agile methods the useful way - by actually working on a real project. Our team…

Privacy is a Distraction

Concerns about privacy are a subset of what we should be concerned about.

Webstock 08: The Transforming Web

The carpet has been pulled out from under our feet and the new web is a very different place to what we were used to. On Friday morning at Webstock, eager conference goers were subjected to several…