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Over the past few weeks I've been wrapping up the beta project for our new business model and, as a result, I've been putting off a lot of writing.  So for the next few posts I'm going to be cleaning up the flotsam and jetsam that's accumulated on my desk.  First off, Infographics The recent web fad of reducing an argument to a trite graphic is really irritating to me... especially when the position taken is so poorly researched that it negates the senders' credibility. I usually only comment directly back to the sender about the error, but back in March I got an unsolicited email (from someone who did not identifiy what axe they wanted to grind but I was able to discover it anyway) asking me to comment on it in my blog.  Here's my comment. What a load of crap. Here's the infographic.   Via: Open-Site.org Right from the beginning the hucksters pushing this information start out with a prevarication: that Wikipedia forced Encyclopedia B...

Recently, Dan Holden did a series on how apps are changing the face of the web which came right at the time I was considering a series on that very thing, but a bit more focused.  He's right and we need to consider how these technologies are going to affect our lives because in the modern world, the user has a greater stake in the outcome than ever.  So today we start looking at  on geolocal, or geosocial apps. These platforms are the latest darlings of the tech world.  VCs are throwing money at them like frat boys throw at strippers, the press can’t stop writing about them and, at this writing, there are more than 100 of them launched worldwide.  The biggest name, at the moment, is Foursquare , but Gowalla and Booya are making inroads and Twitter , Google and Facebook -- the gorillas of social media -- have launched their own initiatives. It’s not really a new phenomenon.  Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley launched a primitive version in Dodg...