Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
My daughter Eira was watching kids TV programme Ernie the Engine on Saturday and I was struck by how lifelike the faces on the animated characters are. They were lifelike and not at all disconcerting - so much so that I was left wondering whether children’s TV characters are coming through the uncanny valley.
I had [...]
Techcrunch announced earlier this week that Google is launching Open Social (URL will apparently go live later today) - a new set of APIs that will facilitate the transfer of data in and out of of social networks. Specifically:
Profile Information (user data)
Friends Information (social graph)
Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff)
I think this is [...]
I have been using the Flock 1.0 beta for a few days now and the People Sidebar feature has really got me hooked. The product is well hyped (Techcrunch 40 winner) and has lots of great features (review) - but the People Sidebar could have a significance which goes beyond this latest skirmish in [...]
A couple of days ago I wrote a post Why are we concerned about privacy? in which I argued that sharing personal some personal data in return for better services was a good trade off. Alan Patrick and I had a privacy versus sharing debate in the comments which left me thinking that to [...]
This post has been forming in the back of my mind since I read Privacy and Personalisation: From Clickstream to Targeted Advertising on Read/Write web last week. I was waiting until I met with Luke Razzell this morning to discuss the final two posts in our identity and startups series to make sure there wasn’t [...]
The number of sites where you can log in with OpenID is growing rapidly - this is big news in the identity/single-sign-on world. The standard has been around for a while but its complexity has stopped it really taking off.
Clearly something is changing.
And it is changing ahead of the much vaunted release of OpenID2.0 [...]
Luke has just posted the second in the series here.
Read and enjoy!!
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As I was playing with a new Facebook app on Friday that uses my friends list to filter blog posts (of which more later) I began thinking again about the power of Facebook as a platform for friends. As I wrote in the post I just linked to it is crazy that we have to [...]
The debate about how long Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft should be allowed to keep our search data is, in IMHO, a bit of a waste of time.
By way of background:
Google announced in March that it would anonymise user data after 18-24 months
In a similar vein Microsoft and Yahoo! announced last week they would alter their [...]
I have had the good fortune to co-author a series of posts on identity with my friend and identity expert Luke Razzell.
The posts explore the importance of identity to startups - as an opportunity in its own right and tangentially if their business impacts upon, but is not about, identity.
The first post in the series [...]
