I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of Thunderbird, and what areas we should invest in in addition to the obvious ones like long-term maintainability, user experience, and the like. One area which is growing in importance in my mind is what’s referred to as “contacts”. By that I don’t mean the [...]

I just joined Dopplr (at this point, why not?). The idea of a social network aimed at facilitating connections between people based on the congruence of their travel plans is intriguing. In some ways it’s a longer-timescale, spatially richer version of our more granular but geographically limited Up4 app. We’ll see [...]

Doing a little digging on the topic of my last post, I was poking around nature.com, and found connotea, which is described as a derivative of del.icio.us. It is apparently similar to an independent effort called CiteULike.
At first, it seems like an awful lot of duplication — the core is basically a clone [...]