Ben Werdmuller

Category: Web

  • Some alternative views of the iPad

    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…

  • Direct messaging in a social web architecture

    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,…

  • The Digital Economy Bill: an open letter

    I’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’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.…

  • Activity Streams and OAuth: a social web architecture

    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…