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Google: We’re Not Even Pretending to be the Good Guys Anymore 3 Jul 2013 | 06:46 pm
The big news in tech circles is this is the week Google Reader died. There has been a lot of collective shock about this since Google Reader was a staple of the sort of technology news omnivore and ea...
Some Thoughts on the Death of Google Reader 14 Mar 2013 | 10:08 am
The problem with Google Reader was that by the time you solve all of the problems with the RSS experience, you’ve effectively invented Twitter. And Jack Dorsey already did that. Now Playing: Lil Way...
Twitter and Facebook: The Search for a Google-like Business Model 17 Nov 2012 | 08:57 pm
In a past life, I worked on the social news feed for a number of Microsoft products including the Messenger Social feed in Hotmail & Messenger and most recently the People app in Windows 8. When I wor...
Steven 13 Nov 2012 | 06:38 pm
I’ve had about four hours of sleep but can’t seem to go back to sleep. There’s a pain of loss that feels like a death in the family and I hope writing this down helps in some way of dealing with it. ...
Some Thoughts on Klout as a Business 22 Sep 2012 | 07:06 pm
Last month I read Mike Arrington’s Why I Changed My Mind On Klout (And Invested) and thought to myself that I’d similarly changed my perspective on the much maligned social influence measuring service...
New Job: Some things change, some things stay the same 10 Sep 2012 | 09:34 pm
I’ve spent the last two years leading a PM team that has been part of building software experiences that make me immensely proud. The team has built software experiences that are millions of people wi...
OAuth 2.0: The good, the bad and the ugly 30 Jul 2012 | 08:44 pm
Eran Hammer-Lahav, the former editor of the OAuth 2.0 specification, announced the fact that he would no longer be the editor of the standard in a harshly critical blog post entitled OAuth 2.0 and the...
Some Thoughts on App.net 16 Jul 2012 | 06:04 am
A few weeks ago Dalton Caldwell, founder of imeem and Picplz, wrote a well received blog post titled What Twitter could have been where he laments the fact that Twitter hasn’t fulfilled some of the ea...
Thoughts on Project Glass making Smartphones Obsolete 1 Jul 2012 | 09:46 pm
I read an interesting blog post by Steven Levy titled Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’ with an interview with the Project Glass team which contains the following excerpt Wired...
Has the notion of “files” outlived its usefulness? 30 Jun 2012 | 09:44 pm
I stumbled on an interesting blog post today titled Why Files Exist which contains the following excerpt Whenever there is a conversation about the future of computing, the discussion inevitably turn...