Posts Tagged ‘SocialWeb’
Apple’s Ping Versus the Social Web
Saturday, September 4th, 2010In my last article, I wrote about the potential impact that Apple’s iTunes Ping, their just-released social network for music, might have on other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The more important question is, What impact might Ping have on the Social Web? Read more »
Tags: data silos, microblogging, net neutrality, Ping, SocialWeb
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 4 Comments »
Apple Unveils Ping and Enters Social-networking War with Facebook and Twitter
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010During Apple’s media event today, CEO Steve Jobs previewed iTunes 10 which will include Ping, a social network for music (Ping press release). I believe this is possibly a game-changing event for Facebook, Twitter, and the Social Web in general. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, microblogging, Ping, SocialWeb, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | No Comments »
How the Death of Net Neutrality Effects You
Monday, August 16th, 2010The potential impact of the Google-Verizon proposal to end wireless net neutrality on bloggers, niche social network owners, and ecommerce sites seems to be misunderstood or not even realized by many of my colleagues in the the Web design and development business Read more »
Tags: BuddyPress, developers, FOSS, freedoms, net neutrality, SocialWeb, startups
Posted in BuddyPress, Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 3 Comments »
BuddyPress Beginning to Mature At the Right Time
Friday, August 13th, 2010I’ve written about social-networking fatigue in the past, and still believe that–in the long term–distributed Social Web platforms will win out over the traditional, Web2.0-styled, closed-data-silo social networks. Read more »
Tags: BuddyPress, developers, privacy, SocialWeb, startups
Posted in BuddyPress | 9 Comments »
Thinking Outside the Privacy Box
Monday, June 7th, 2010When it comes to issues of privacy and identity, the Web continues to experience growing pains. People speak of privacy and identity management as if they were separate issues. I believe that managing your personal identity is tantamount to managing your privacy. In effect, what is termed Privacy 2.0 and Identity 2.0 are really one and the same thing. Read more »
Tags: foaf+ssl, identiy 2.0, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, WebID
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 9 Comments »
A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010In my last article, Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue:
…as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each stream picks up, people will grow tired of having to subscribe to, having to join yet-another-stream phenomenon (YASP). Does the Web truly need additional stream providers each with their own data silos? Is there a user-centric solution to this rapidly growing, overflowing-stream issue that puts YASP to rest once and for all?
This article answers these two questions in great detail but the succinct preview version is as follows: Read more »
Tags: data silos, foaf, foaf+ssl, identiy 2.0, microblogging, privacy 2.0, sioc, SocialWeb, Twitter, WebID, WordPress Plugins
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 24 Comments »
Flocking To the Stream
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010I recently began to go through some article backlogs on the websites of various people whose thoughts and perspectives I want to understand better. One such person with whom I’m trying to play catch up is Nova Spivack. If you don’t follow Nova then I suggest taking the time to remedy that Read more »
Tags: data silos, microblogging, SocialWeb, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | 6 Comments »
