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Social Graph is Plural

Social Graph is Plural

“Social Graph” is not just a singular noun.
“The Social Graph” is a popular misnomer that has plagued the social networking portability conversation ever since Brad Fitzpatrick catalyzed the blogosphere with a vision about the Global Social Graph.
But in fact, “The Social Graph” has little real value outside of computer science elegance. Nobody but Big [...]

More on Level 4 Platforms

More on Level 4 Platforms

If you’re going to bet your company on a platform, pick the open one.
That was my advice last month at the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on Platforms. It turned into a lively debate (you can check out the audio for the June 8 2008 event), almost inevitably pitting me against Peter Coffee of Salesforce.com, with Marc [...]

On VRM and Standards

On VRM and Standards

Phil Whitehouse recently served up some nuggets to stimulate conversations at next week’s VRM2008 in Munich.
I’ve been thinking a lot about VRM lately. Not so much about what it means, but rather the mechanism of how it can work.
If you’re new to VRM, it can be summarised like this: it’s the reciprocal of CRM. Rather [...]