Ted Wallingford's riff on social networks and mobile phones is worth a read. His basic points are:
- the main end user control point for identity will become the cell phone.
- social networks are formed around a core of identity.
- phones are just now becoming devices that are capable of supporting rich social networking applications.
Provocative stuff, and in my opinion, dead-on.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
