It’s the banal that determines whether social media will succeed in the mainstream, and today I had an experience that I think demonstrates how far away we are from achieving the the ubiquitously useful social media experience we deserve. Specifically, I got my oil changed. The epitome of banal, right? Yeah, except, see, I don’t [...]
Update: Einar Solbakken has translated this post to Danish. On Friday, David Recordon, one of the original authors of OpenID, released a single-page specification for OpenID Connect, a concept that I outlined on this blog in January before I joined Google. I’m particularly excited about this early proposal because it builds on all the great [...]
The augmented reality view in Brightkite’s mobile app. Brightkite, a location-tracking service, recently launched version 2.0 of their service after merging with Limbo and taking $9M in funding this past April. In recent months I’ve found myself using Foursquare more and more, though I still update Brightkite from time to time since it powers the [...]