Sir Tim Berners-Lee - often referred to as the founder of the World Wide Web – recently posted about what he has labelled “The Graph” – the next level of what was initially the Internet (a network of computers) and later the World Wide Web.
As I understand it, Sir Tim envisions a world where, we have access […]

I read reports here and here last week of two facial recognition startups - Mugr and Eyealike. The consensus in the blogosphere seemed to be that the demo applications put out by both companies were frivolous. Here is an idea for an application that may be just as frivolous but that could potentially do very well on a platform […]

How about this for a business idea that captures users’ intent and therefore enables highly targeted advertising? A web application that allows a user to broadcast a brief RFI (Request For Information) to all or selected companies in one or more categories, as well as to their customers. Besides advertising, additional revenue would come from premium […]

In this post I outline a few features that I hoped Open Social was about but quickly learnt it wasn’t. When I first read the name of Google’s recent social networking play ‘Open Social’, I immediately made a connection with Open ID, expecting to read that it was finally a way to have one base […]