Seeing Forests

I’m really glad Local Matters finally got their Neighborhoods up.   They were put up around November (2007/2006, still November).  I think they look great.  Since I pushed to get these up while I was there you’ll have to take this with a grain of salt in my using this to justify developing “Contextual Content” for Local 2.0.  You [...]

I define Contextual Content as content that facilitates Local 2.0 decision-making.  Finding hotels around a Tube stop, restaurants near a park, grocery stores near a new apartment I’m considering, all of the content around something I’m looking for that is relevant to a local purchase intent is Contextual Content.   The battle is between algorithmic/linguistic [...]

Being a bit new to this means a bit slow to the punch but that’s how I’ve always rolled.  Sebastien at Praized points out the roil over Facebook and Data Portability created recently.  Although primarily an apex geek issue there will be a broader community down the line who will be concerned over who owns individual’s identity data. Facebook, Spock, Plaxo, all are [...]

Being inherently anti-social makes it difficult for me to understand the appeal of a lot of these new mobile phone applications designed to help you “connect” with other people (which I kind of thought was the purpose of a “phone”).  Apps like Loopt and BrightKite that promise to turn your mobile phone into a “social compass” could be anathema [...]