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A User-Centric Web needs brand agnostic service providers

You are the most important brand A User-Centric web is by design a brand agnostic web when it comes to identity. There is only one brand, and that is you. The current web causes different types of pro… more →

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A User-Centric Web needs brand agnostic service providers — 7 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 2 months ago: You are the most important brand A User-Centric web is by design a brand agnostic web when it comes … more →

Tags: advertisement trap, Business Model, Freedom, OpenID

Building a People-Centric web is a fight for a lost cause — 3 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 2 months ago: Don Quixote, Image taken from Wikipedia A number of posts drew my attention this week. First, 2 resp … more →

Tags: advertisement trap, Business Model, Chris Messina, facebook

Yahoo answers on steroids

sgutier wrote 2 months ago: After the passing years on the business I am not usually impress anymore by the different startups t … more →

Tags: Start-up, Yahoo, Answers

About leveraging the Facebook platform successfully for your business — 3 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 3 months ago: Push vs pull Yesterday I read a post by Jesse Stay entitled “Hey businesses, you’re usin … more →

Tags: Business Model, facebook, Web 2.0, Business, Revenues, web 2.0 business model

Important characteristics for a social operating system — 7 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 3 months ago: A Borg cube (image taken from www.startrek.com) Facebook is quickly making moves to become a web pla … more →

Tags: Business Model, facebook, Privacy, social operating system

A personal manifesto for a User-Centric web — 5 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 5 months ago: A pretty walled garden There are walls all around us. We live our lives realizing that we have to li … more →

Tags: Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly, Inspiration, personal manifesto

Everybody loses in the battle over our online identity — 4 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 5 months ago: A beautiful bird cage Facebook announces user names. It generates a lot of buzz on Techmeme. TechCru … more →

Tags: facebook, Social Networks, Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly, Business Model, Chris Messina, identity

The potential power of Google Wave is far bigger than its demo — 12 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 6 months ago: I was just reading this CNET post on wave. Rafe Needleman and Stephen Shankland (both working for CN … more →

Tags: Web 2.0, Business Model, Google Wave

Shifting the balance of power inside out solves many web 2.0 issues — 1 comment

Alexander van Elsas wrote 6 months ago: Image taken from: http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/insideOut/ What are the most important aspects for a Us … more →

Tags: Business Model, Google, Google Wave, Privacy

10 reasons why Google just reinvented online communication — 20 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 6 months ago: This is a huge development. Techmeme is going wild over Google Wave. Google has focused on the one t … more →

Tags: Google Wave

An important revolution in the web can't be driven by technology — 3 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 6 months ago: Who am I? Yesterday I tried logging into a service I hadn’t visited in a while. I couldn … more →

Tags: Web 2.0, Business Model, walled garden, walled gardens, web 2.0 business model

The Open, Social web needs plumbers — 1 comment

Alexander van Elsas wrote 6 months ago: Chris Messina has a long and good post up about the open Social Web. He hits on a topic I have writt … more →

Tags: Rolf Skyberg, Web 2.0, OpenID, Tim O'Reilly, Business Model, FactoryJoe, Chris Messina, web 2.0 business model

5 reasons why a User-Centric business model always wins — 6 comments

Alexander van Elsas wrote 10 months ago: A few posts drew my attention this weekend. first there was Chris Anderson talking about the economi … more →

Tags: Business Model, Chris Anderson, facebook, Fred Wilson, freemium