Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Like most people, I had the opportunity to review Facebook’s IPO filing yesterday and admit that, like Apple’s recent earnings announcement, this is pretty damn impressive. Here are a couple of lessons worth reinforcing: 1) People’s view of what is normal and acceptable in emergent online activities is constantly evolving. What Facebook deserves a lot [...]
Facebook launched a really interesting Questions product a few days ago and after trying it out I have a couple of thoughts on it that I would like to share. Simply put, this service builds on a well documented user behavior exhibited by millions of Facebook users who on a daily basis poll their “friends” [...]
Today Facebook suggested that I write on my friend Jeffrey Walker’s wall… which made me sad because Jeffrey died last year after a long struggle with cancer. I clicked on his Facebook profile and sure enough, lot’s of his friends have been leaving messages as if he were still with us, and it was nice [...]
I’d go with that assessment. Connect has made identity/authentication so much easier for third party app providers and at the same time has struck a serious blow to Google in that these relationships are not transactional and it is a zero sum game. With FB adoption where it is and so much momentum on the [...]
Image via CrunchBase As I look back over the evolution of blogs, community, and commenting/engagement on media sites, I have a mixed feeling about anonymity. On one hand the ability to use a pseudonym has encouraged participation where it might not happen, but on the other it has enabled a raucous and at times a [...]
I think that pretty much from the beginning there existed a tension between users and software developers around the notion of interoperability. Users want it while developers more often than not view it as a threat to their strategy to lock users into their apps and services. With social networks the tension has increased because [...]
“Senator Lieberman stated his belief, in a letter sent today, that all videos mentioning or featuring these groups should be removed from YouTube — even legal nonviolent or non-hate speech videos,” the statement said. “While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech and defends everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view.” [...]