Archive for May, 2010

Facebook: the Wikipedia of you

Facebook is trying to be the new Wikipedia. Lately there’s been a lot of privacy backlash over Facebook making a lot of information public by default. But one question that’s getting lost in the controversy deserves more attention. Why are they doing it? I was lucky enough to be at a semantic web conference just [...]

Getting a sense of scale

How fast should a startup get to a minimum viable product? I recently had the chance to compare an organization to an email. The organization has had a number of meetings and made some useful decisions. They’ve put up a small site, but want to reorganize it and update the copy (it’s currently a shell [...]