Shinji Kuwayama

Conrad aphorised to me, years ago, that only software developers and drug pushers call their respective audiences “users”. Today I see a related meme going around; some pundits are imploring each other to stop calling everyone “users”.
That’s cool, and overdue, but this isn’t actually a semantic problem. Sure, you can do a find-and-replace and substitute [...]

The new social networking players, which include Cisco and a multitude of start-ups like Ning, the latest venture of the Netscape co-creator Marc Andreessen, say that social networks will soon be as ubiquitous as regular Web sites. They are aiming to create tools to let ordinary people, large companies and even presidential candidates create social [...]