Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

There’s a certain catch-22 in social media: everyone wants to use the thing that everyone else is using. Critical mass is, well, critical. But getting to that critical mass from nothing is the tricky part. Such has been the fate of OpenID, the essence of which is the idea that people should share their login [...]

When Google Maps was introduced in 2005, it was a watershed moment in the distributed web. While Microsoft had developed TerraServer (the first free API mapping service) in 1996, there was something about the elegance and power of the AJAX implementation of Google Maps that unleashed the creativity of multitudes of developers to spawn a [...]