Entries from October 2005
October 29, 2005
Privacy/Anonymity
People already segment their lives with various communications. For example, people I talk to on a regular basis have my mobile #, tons of people have my e-mail address(es), people I choose to talk to a bit less have my home office #, very few have my Skype ID, very few have my IM handle, [...]
October 26, 2005
We can.
The answer to my last musing about why we can’t have purpose driven phone numbers, with the same utility as having a purpose driven e-mail address is… Well, we can… meaning it’s possible as long as we converge the phone world with the Internet world. Carriers focus on networks, minutes and ARPU whereas Internet companies [...]
October 20, 2005
Purpose driven lives
Many of us have multiple e-mail addresses (and IM handles) for multiple purposes. Consider your personal e-mail address vs. your work e-mail address vs. your gmail address vs. your hotmail address. These each have a specific purpose and level of utility. The ability to represent ourselves as having various identities online (anonymous or not) is [...]
October 12, 2005
A new inflection point in lifestyle communications?
A new inflection point in lifestyle communications?
In the web 1.0 era, Geocities offered task driven wizards to guide consumers toward building a website.There are lots of companies emerging in this web 2.0 era, which allow consumers the ability to publish additional content. Filmloop provides a service for consumers to tell a story with photos. Odeo [...]
