I sat down for a conversation with Ville Vesterinen (@vesterinen) — co-founder and editor of the ArcticStartup blog — last week while he was visiting from Helsinki. Following up on the post that Jyri Engeström and I wrote on the web at a new crossroads, we discussed the need for more open standards to create [...]
Earlier today, Rob Dolin announced the launch of additional sources of activities for Windows Live users — including MySpace, Hulu, Skyrock, and SlideShare. Writing on the Windows Live Services blog, he outlines the premise behind the Activity Streams effort (emphasis original): With today’s latest partner integrations on Windows Live, we’ll have over fifty web activities [...]
This post is a collaborative essay written by Jyri Engström and myself, edited by Brynn Evans and originally posted to the ArcticStartup blog on September 11, 2009. Thanks to Brad Fitzpatrick for his comments on the draft. · · · Around 2003, things began to change. Technology was then the black sheep, having left overnight millionaires destitute [...]