Archive for the ‘Social’ Category

Vox invite

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

[And, it is gone. If I get anymore I'll post again.]

I have one two one two one zero Vox invites to send out. Comment or email me if you want it.

One messaging to rule them all

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Ed Batista reported on Josh Porter’s Social Networks Are Killing Email to which I objected.

Obviously Josh was thinking further though as he came up with A Messaging Proxy and Domain as Identity. Interesting idea, I like it. Amazon’s SQS could potentially be a part of it and provide the reliability that is needed. I reckon it would need to be distributed too, having your messaging system go down due to a server fault or a company glitch would be a big problem. I also think we need to keep email in mind as we can learn a good deal from it as well as remember the vast amounts of archived messages many of us have and need to keep.

Your Question to the World

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Dropping Knowledge is an interesting idea that aims to let citizens of the world raise their issues, stepping around governments. Anyone can ask a question, raise an issue. Allianz is backing it so there could be some practical follow up on ideas. I asked:

How do we balance the self with the public?