Living as I have for decades right off the information super highway I was already aware of the seedy underworld of pick up artists. Or, if your the kind of geek who likes a mnemonic: PUAs.
Some commodities suffer from an imbalance, high demand and low quality of supply. The skill of how to get [...]
I’m writing this because Microsoft recently granted a limited license for some awesome intellectual property they acquired two years ago. I want to temper the press accounts that are tending suggest they granted a generous license.
Almost immediately upon the wide spread adoption of patents industries fell into gridlock. In a classic game of mutually [...]
Friday, February 19, 2010
I’m reluctant to write this up. I feel I’m wandering onto really fresh turf here. Because this is really about style and design; and the various audiences that craft addresses. Something I don’t really know anything about.
One thing that caught my fancy in the book “Buying In” was the idea that products are two [...]
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
It is frustrating that there is no chance I’ll ever know the real story here. This article says that they, you know they, are disabling 25 million cell phones in India. These are generally cheap phones and what they have in common is they lack a unique id number, what’s known as the IMEI. [...]
Wow! This a wonderfully counter intuitive bit of social science!
Imagine that you would like to be sword swallower. In service of achieving that goal you set out to accumulate assorted accouterments: a sword, some books on sword swallowing, you study your vocabulary, you watch some videos, you take a course. Each of these moves you [...]
Below are a few screen shots I found thought provoking.
The first is taken from a site that is somewhat analogous to Twitter, Friend Feed. Actually like a lot of sites they recently started chasing Twitter’s tail lights. It has a lot more features. Like Twitter you have a timeline or feed of items about your life and [...]
Here’s another example of the natural progression of Moore’s law and privacy invading systems; where in the powerless (shipping containers, pets, cattle, prisoners, solders, women and children, shoppers, etc) pay the start up costs. In this case we are tracking high school students. I think I may need to touch up my model a bit. [...]
Lauren Weinstein posts about being accused of being unhelpful.
But a message from another privacy personality was as polite as it was disturbing.
The sender noted pretty much essential agreement with my arguments regarding the lawsuit, but strongly asserted that my post was “most unhelpful” by “undermining” efforts to bring Google into advocacy group consultations.
Solidarity has it’s [...]
Managing the selective revealing of fine grain private information marks one border in the Fantasy land of Internet identity design. My preferred use case: Authorizing your barber to reveal your hair color to your bespoke tailor. Far on the other end of the imaginary continent are systems that distill statistics from the incidental revealing. Those [...]
Many many years ago now I spent a while working on the Internet Identity management problem. In fact I have a whole category with postings I did during that period. Boy, talk about a tough problem!
Back in day one of the problems we worried about a lot went under the name “account linking.” This problem [...]
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