January 2009
5 posts
Interview on Podcast on Demand #3 →
I recently participated in a podcast with Robert Sanzalone in Nagoya. We’ve talked mostly aboutMobileinJapan.com, the community I’ve created with Andrew Shuttleworth about everything mobile in the keitai country.
Facebook and Privacy →
Now, if people finding Facebook “creepy” are not actually spending their time watching others’ online lives, their claims must be based on a feeling of others’ prying on their online activity.
Another reminder: it’s all about what you put online. Don’t start adding drunken-parties pictures and then lament that a employer was able to catch them. Don’t engage in touchy subjects like politics and...
A Call for a Unified Retweet Acronym →
Until Twitter decides to implement the feature directly, the developers are having a innovation field day on how to do it
The Social Journal v. What Are You Doing →
In the end, the fate expecting all the micro-blogging platforms will depend on their ability to monetize their services. Twitter is the only one I see that actually gets a shot, for its network effect (the sheer number of users is growing day by day) but also for the whole array of services it has allowed to be created around it.
Where is iRovr going? →
If the iPhone-only approach clearly did cut iRovr.com from a whole market of users craving to use fun social network services, the monetization is the other big issue. With all current services scratching their heads about monetization (or having gone the way of massively attracting user to leverage future income), iRovr.com was never in a good place: the founder explained on an iRovr entry that...