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iPhones, Blackberries and email

I lost my Blackberry last weekend and everyone keeps asking me whether I’m going to swap and get an iPhone.  In fact I’ve been carrying an iPhone as well as a Blackberry for eighteen months now and whilst I’d love to go back down to carrying one device if I could it isn’t a [...]

Second Life – more real/alternate world convergence

See this post from Christian of Electric Sheep Company which describes a Second Life object which plays real world audio and hence raises a WHOLE WORLD (geddit?!?) of copyright issues. So, you can access real world audio inside Second Life. How long before your Rhapsody subscription is extendable there?

I’m interested in Second Life [...]

Web2.0 in the enterprise – social bookmarking and tag clouds

I’ve been reading a lot about this lately – including Framfab blog/discussion page and Jeff Nolan and I’m seeing a few start-ups in this space in the UK.

Cool stuff, and I think there might be a software opportunity here. The idea is that enterprises empower employees to create their own tags for documents which [...]

Second Life

I haven’t talked about this yet but I love Second Life and the way the edges between virtual worlds and real worlds are blurring.

Now an Amazon store has opened

And this weekend Dell opened a real store in Dallas!!!

More on Social Networks business models

Since my last post I have learned a few things:

1) MySpace is flying – traffic wise – and has passed Yahoo! and Google in terms of page views. See Jeff Clavier for all the good news there. Although some claim that MySpace’s design produces a large number of extra page views – maybe 2-3 [...]

Social network business models and value – Bebo and Myspace

In the wake of the Benchmark Bebo deal and Myspace NewsCorp sometime before that I have been thinking about what these companies are worth.

On the one hand they have A WHOLE LOT OF TRAFFIC – so there is unquestionably some value there. The question, is how much?

Now I’m an old fashioned guy [...]

Trust and certificates

The promised post on trust awaits your perusal below.

In what is starting to be a tradition in this blog lets start by postulating what trust might be (and I’m talking in the very specific context of web trust systems – there is a very interesting wider debate on trust in society which I’ve [...]

More on Web2.0 models

This has been a big week for us – spin out from Caz and merger with Prelude completed. Office move started, and ongoing…..

All good fun and very exciting. I might have managed to have a few beers on Friday as well. And then a barbecue at Bob Hook’s house on Saturday for all [...]

On Trust

My starting point here is that trust is somehow missing and that there may be some kind of opportunity here to build a big or probably even HUGE company providing that thing which is somehow missing.

It is easy to find examples where trust is present and has been a crititcal success factor – [...]

Getting Started

Hello World Right now I feel a bit like I did when I wrote my first java program.

So why am I doing this? Because there is a conversation going on that I want to be part of. To add to. And to be provocative and develop my own thinking. (And maybe to give [...]