Today AT&T announced a new developer platform (link: AT&T Announces API Platform to Boost Innovation and Collaboration with Mobile App Developers). Only one problem (well several actually). It only works on AT&T’s network/phones. So if I build something that works for them it won’t work on any other platform AT&T controls access to the API’s. This […]
Posts Categorized: #webperf
Why Personalization algorithms won’t work
Because they don’t know “Me”. There’s this great TED video up on Yahoo… What Facebook and Google (and a few others) are hiding from the world. So what’s going on here? Well what the Content providers are doing is “monitoring and measuring” You… And then they start building a profile on You… […]
Could solving Mobile Privacy Speed up the Web?
Yes, Virginia it sure could… How? Well let’s think about it for a moment and revisit an old blog post – “Privacy on the Internet is NOT binary” I started with a definition from Wikipedia…. Privacy (from Latin: privatus “separated from the rest, deprived of something, esp. office, participation in the government”, from privo […]
The real reason no one wants to solve the Privacy problem
It’s all about the “Benjamin’s” . Here’s a simple graphics that says it all… The guy on the left represents the Mobile OS manufacturers. In exchange for “free” they want access to your privacy so they can sell more ads. They’ve invested an incredible amount of money in infrastructure to support you. […]
Choice-Browsing the Internet of the Future
In my last two blog posts I talked about why Mobile apps don’t matter anymore (Part I & Part II). I finished the blogs with a quote, “In the future – the ONLY Mobile app you’ll need will be the Browser”. My personal opinion is that with now close to 3/4’s of a million […]