I enjoy talking to young companies (or proto-companies) about their projects. I do that with a few incubators and the like, and I consistently find it rewarding. I find myself always trying to tweak people’s product vision a bit, looking for a way to turn a “business idea” into something that will have deeper, human [...]
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What’s the lesson?
I’m not supposed to be in front of a computer right now. I’m supposed to be attending the Vancouver premiere of Tiffany Shlain’s Connected, in a fundraiser to benefit A Human Right. This looked like a fun event, for a good cause. So I bought two tickets, one for myself and one for my 14 [...]
Am I reading these trends right?
Let’s see… in the last few weeks, we have seen: Facebook shifting the definition of the Open Graph and moving the locus of control about sharing from an actual user-initiated action (“share!”) to the terms of service that users agree to at “app installation time”. This will likely lead users to overshare, and many more [...]
The Future of Messaging
The web has incredible potential to improve our lives even more than it already has. I believe that nowhere else is this more true than in the space of personal communications. Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, today announced that Mozilla will be increasing our focus on messaging and communications on the web. As [...]
Crowdsourcing thoughts
05 Oct 2010 at 00:21
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collaboration, Conferences, Mozilla, Open Source, Vancouver, Web
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On Wednesday, I’m attending Remixology 2, an event put together by Fresh Media, on the topic of crowdsourcing. In particular, I’ll somehow be the representative of the entire open web perspective on crowdsourcing (!), Alfred Hermida will be talking about the journalist’s perspective, and Leigh Christie will be there representing artists. I’m hoping that the [...]
Tim O’Reilly on the future web wars
I’ve tended to limit my link referrals to my Twitter feed over the last year, but I wanted to advertise Tim O’Reilly’s latest post on this channel as well (it also feels great to have more than 100 characters to express myself!). Tim explains well what the new battlegrounds for the future of the web [...]
Tim O'Reilly on the future web wars
I’ve tended to limit my link referrals to my Twitter feed over the last year, but I wanted to advertise Tim O’Reilly’s latest post on this channel as well (it also feels great to have more than 100 characters to express myself!). Tim explains well what the new battlegrounds for the future of the web [...]
Thunderbird 3 beta 2
On the road to Thunderbird 3, another milestone — this time, Thunderbird 3 beta 2. Why do beta releases? Beta releases are funny things. They serve a few purposes. The first is to make sure that we periodically stabilize the code base, as without periodic ‘cooling’, it’s hard to get a handle on the quality [...]
What’s Mozilla’s scope? What should it be?
A couple of canadians (!) have recently put up interesting posts about the Mozilla Foundation: David Eaves, with whom I had a great breakfast a few weeks ago, and Marc Surman, with whom I had a great long-distance phone chat. Both posts are worth reading, and digesting. For what it’s worth, I agree with both. [...]
What's Mozilla's scope? What should it be?
A couple of canadians (!) have recently put up interesting posts about the Mozilla Foundation: David Eaves, with whom I had a great breakfast a few weeks ago, and Marc Surman, with whom I had a great long-distance phone chat. Both posts are worth reading, and digesting. For what it’s worth, I agree with both. [...]
