I’ve been thinking a lot more about online privacy for the last couple of years, so I was already prepared for the current controversy over Facebook’s change in its Terms of Service, and it wasn’t much of a shock to me. I’ve never really posted pictures there, imported my own blog posts,...

Facebook Connect.  Myspace Data Portability. Google Friend Connect. All of these individual services are supposed to be there to help you manage the fire hose of information that comes to you through your social graphs, but who owns that information? The idea behind Facebook Connect and all of the ...

Every year I enjoy writing a post with my predictions for the next year.  It's a nice way to empty the old thoughts from my brains so there's room for new ones.  Plus I leave a trail of blog posts so I can see how my thoughts change from year to year. In retrospect I've realized that each year ten...

Every year I enjoy writing a post with my predictions for the next year.  It's a nice way to empty the old thoughts from my brains so there's room for new ones.  Plus I leave a trail of blog posts so I can see how my thoughts change from year to year. In retrospect I've reali...

Do you have business cards that you use for yourself? More than likely, many of you probably don’t. Since I work from home with clients that aren’t in my area, I hardly ever run into situations where I need to present a formal business card, but after years of resistance, I do finally ha...

What does it mean to own your online identity? Does it mean that you're free to take your data from a walled garden and move it elsewhere, a la Data Portability? Or does it mean that you have complete control over it and you're free to mold it into whatever form you need it to take, delete it, share...

What does it mean to own your online identity? Does it mean that you're free to take your data from a walled garden and move it elsewhere, a la Data Portability? Or does it mean that you have complete control over it and you're free to mold it into whatever form you need it to take, delete it, share...

I’m a social web app junkie. Where most people use a few on a regular basis as a consumer and only a couple as a producer I am an active user on far too many sites. I’m not a beta junkie to the point where I try out every web service (especially not the ones spamming my blog contact emai...

In today's news was an article on sites that are cropping up all over the internet that promise to protect your reputation online. This started me thinking about online reputation and personal responsibility in the face of an ever shrinking online world. At what point does our personal responsib...

I admit it… I thought I got the semantic Web before, but I didn’t really.  I really got it just recently. People have noticed that I haven’t blogged much (well, really not at all) for the past week. That's partly because I’ve been under some pretty tight deadlines at work lately, but al...