Okay, I confess. I've been Twittering over the holiday period. As part of my social computing beat for Freeform Dynamics, it's up to me to try and understand what the heck's going on, even if it isn't (yet?) mainstream. Like blogging, Second...

Anyone who's followed me over the years would not mark me down as a Microsoft lover. As long ago as 1980 Steve Ballmer used to visit me and tell me of his dreams for Microsoft. I liked the man, I was taken aback by the vision—even more so...

The internet is silting up with ego-driven dross. It's little wonder that the anti-network-neutrality brigade would like to turn it into freeways and side streets, depending on willingness to pay. And, equally, it's no wonder that the network...

Look around at social and collaborative computing and what do you see? A complete hotch potch of different systems, some of which run safely behind the firewall, others which sit out there on someone else's servers. You hop from Flickr to Outlook...