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	<title>Ben Werdmuller von Elgg</title>
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		<title>Facebook location vs the ACLU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot has been said about Facebook’s new location feature, which is available via its iPhone client or HTML5 mobile web app. It’s a shrewd move, to be sure, and by now it’s clear that the company has ambitions to be the next decade’s tech behemoth. While Microsoft has a grip over stand-alone computing, Apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/08/facebook-location-vs-the-aclu/</link>
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		<title>For your consideration at SXSW Interactive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve submitted a talk for South By Southwest 2011: Building the User-centered Web By establishing a general standard for social application interactions, the services and technologies used to make connections become less relevant; the Internet is people, one big social network, and users no longer have to worry about how they connect. We can all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/08/for-your-consideration-at-sxsw-interactive/</link>
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		<title>Blowing up markets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Banning sublets Last week, the State of New York passed a bill that bans short-term rentals: specifically, no homeowner or renter may sublet their home for less than a month. The target is sites like AirBNB, an up and coming website that allows travelers to eschew pricey hotels – and their accompanying hotel room occupancy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/07/blowing-up-markets/</link>
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		<title>The product management cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday: “The plan is A! We&#8217;ll market it at A!” Tuesday: “Actually, I was thinking B. A is stupid. Who would want to do that?” Wednesday: “Goddamnit, we need to be working towards C. Why does no-one see that?” Thursday: “Maybe A was right &#8230;” Friday: “This team sucks.” Hint: pick a direction and run. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/the-product-management-cycle/</link>
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		<title>Write real-time web applications with XMPP, PHP, and JavaScript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve written a tutorial for writing XMPP-based web applications over at IBM DeveloperWorks: Real-time web applications are networked applications, with web-based user interfaces, that display Internet information as soon as it&#8217;s published. Examples include social news aggregators and monitoring tools that continually update themselves with data from an external source. In this tutorial, you will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/write-real-time-web-applications-with-xmpp-php-and-javascript/</link>
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		<title>An introduction to Activity Streams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve written an introduction to the Activity Streams standard for IBM DeveloperWorks: Enter Activity Streams, an evolving standard that extends Atom for expressing social objects. Although it is a young standard, Activity Streams is fast becoming the de facto method for syndicating activity between web applications. For example, MySpace, Facebook, and TypePad all now produce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/an-introduction-to-activity-streams/</link>
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		<title>My pro web apps: June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I’d list the third-party web applications I use on a daily basis to do my job. There are plenty more that I use for fun (Flickr) or find useful (Twitter) – but these are the things that have become integral to how I make money. I’d be interested to hear yours: if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/my-pro-web-apps-june-2010/</link>
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		<title>Building a distributed social network? You&#8217;re doing it wrong.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some distributed social networking platforms and technologies designed to facilitate distributed social networking: Status.net DiSo 6D Kopal DSNP Noserub Appleseed OneSocialWeb Diaspora (included for completeness, but there isn’t any code yet) Wow, that’s a lot! And following Diaspora’s flurry of both coverage and cash, you can bet there’ll be plenty more to come. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/building-a-distributed-social-network-youre-doing-it-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Devices and desires: why the portable device wars are a red herring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little pre-history When I was a kid, I had an Atari 130XE. You’ve probably never heard of it. It was an 8-bit, all-in-one box that booted straight into BASIC; a flexible, well-built, sturdy computer. There was just one problem: it wasn’t a ZX Spectrum or a Commodore Amiga. At the time, Britain was undergoing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/06/devices-and-desires-why-the-portable-device-wars-are-a-red-herring/</link>
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		<title>A note on me, Elgg, and social networking projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enough people have asked me about this over the last year, that I thought I’d write a little more about why I don’t do social networking work. Most regular readers will be aware that I co-founded Elgg, the open source social networking framework. If you weren’t, it’s not hard to work out: my last name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/05/a-note-on-me-elgg-and-social-networking-projects/</link>
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		<title>So why do we need apps anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ebooks don’t cut it: everyone wants an app NB (May 20, 2010): A lot of my suggestions for web-based apps are part of the Google Chrome Web App Store. In fact, the .crx file used there is a zip file with very similar characteristics to epub. (I assume, as Chromium is open source, that .crx [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/so-why-do-we-need-apps-anyway/</link>
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		<title>The future of publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to everyone who came to Intersection: Publishing yesterday. Our fascinating round-table discussion was cut off far too soon: I think we could have gone on for days and only barely covered the issues. It’s clear that an open conversation that treated publishers, authors, readers, technologists and lawyers as equals was long overdue. (Missed it? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/the-future-of-publishing/</link>
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		<title>Intersection: Publishing is today!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note that Intersection: Publishing is today: This afternoon, professionals from the fields off publishing, technology and IP law will gather together to discuss the future of publishing. We’re excited about meeting the attendees, having some interesting conversations and helping to forge productive ongoing collaborations. This is an important time for the industry, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/intersection-publishing-is-today/</link>
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		<title>Dear Member of Parliament,</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today two opposing newspaper advertisements have been placed regarding the Digital Economy Bill debate: one from the Open Rights Group, and one from the Creative Coalition Campaign. Here’s some things to consider: The Open Rights Group ad is not asking you to vote against the Bill. It is asking you to debate it thoroughly, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/dear-member-of-parliament/</link>
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		<title>Some alternative views of the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post. The entire tech sector is ga-ga over the iPad; I’m pretty excited by it myself. But I thought I’d try and throw some realism on the fire by linking to a couple of interesting alternative posts on the topic. Quinn Norton has some very smart comments about the blinkered vision of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/04/some-alternative-views-of-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Direct messaging in a social web architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the third segment in my series on an architecture for the social web. Previously: How social networks can replace email, which is a non-technical approach to the issues, and my follow-up describing how to build a social web architecture using available technology today. So what about direct messaging? In my previous post, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/03/direct-messaging-a-social-web-architecture-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Saving the world through game dynamics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane McGonigal’s TED talk starts out a little bit hokey, but rapidly evolves into an important new idea that could genuinely change peoples’ lives. Jane was the community designer for I Love Bees, the infamous Alternate Reality Game that was released as a promotional endeavor for Halo 2. Her later work recognizes the importance that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/03/saving-the-world-through-game-dynamics/</link>
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		<title>Intersection: Publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intersection: Publishing 2010 is a BarCamp which aims to discuss the future of publishing. There are a bunch of problems with the current models (for example, Amazon’s attempts at digital lock-in), and we want to get people from different backgrounds – publishers, authors, geeks, lawyers, marketers, academics – in a room to try and solve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/03/intersection-publishing/</link>
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		<title>The Digital Economy Bill: an open letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m interrupting my scheduled series of posts about social messaging, because this is important. (The final part should appear tomorrow.) Here in the UK, the Digital Economy Bill looks like it&#8217;s set to be rushed through Parliament: There’s plenty to oppose in the Digital Economy Bill, it gives the government the ability to disconnect millions. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/03/digital-economy-bill-open-letter/</link>
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		<title>Activity Streams and OAuth: a social web architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My previous post was a response to Gartner’s prediction last month that social networking would replace email as the “primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.” In it, I named some properties that would need to be held by any social networking system that would successfully replace email. Ease of use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://benwerd.com/2010/03/activity-streams-and-oauth-a-social-web-architecture/</link>
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