hi, i’m from coca-cola i’ll give you $100,000 for friendfeed.

the friendfeeders are laughing, but it actually is not a bad idea.
what would be the subscription that you would put on the price of friend feed?
this would include the ability to import the friendfeed db into an enterprise data warehouse and data mine the the conversations? let’s face it, in the future these conversations have [...]

future social ii: security and monetisation

so there are a bunch of horrified people reading my last post thinking: “what the hell drugs is he on?!”
the assumption for a very long time is that advertising was the way forward for web companies to make money. the assumption has been that we need to come up with some way to advertise [...]

future social i: facebook & federated id

my last post raised some questions amongst friends as to how we would get to the social media brave new world. i would like to take a few posts to step through this new “social media future”.
the first part that raised some eyebrows was facebook as a federated identity platform.
let me make this clear, it [...]