Lawrence Coburn

All stories by Lawrence

• The coming deconstruction of enterprise software

  It appears that we are on the verge of a massive deconstruction of enterprise software. That systems that were once defined ...

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• Context and the Calendar: An Introduction to Chronofencing

  Where context and time meet.

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• Social apps for business: This is your Instagram moment

  Our nascent industry’s fastest growing, best capitalized, and highest profile startup is apparently getting absorbed by ...

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• Meet Spot - A Membership Based VIP Program for Urbanites [Invites]

  A banker friend of mine used to roll around town with one of those black AMEX cards.  I’m not sure what he had to do to ...

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• Meet Gatsby tells you the perfect person to meet at that particular moment in time

  Recommendations are a big deal in the online economy. On YouTube, video recommendations account for about 30% of all ...

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• Meet The Go Game: The Godfathers of Geo

  When you think of the pioneers of geosocial services, who do you think of?  Loopt, Foursquare, and Gowalla were certainly ...

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• Sonar gets us closer to the promise of true geosocial networking

  Imagine heading to a party, or a conference, or a bar and getting a briefing before you go of the people who will be there, ...

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• The Flawed Premise of "Facebook for the Enterprise"

  With consumer startups getting most of the press, it’s easy to forget that there exists an enormous enterprise software ...

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• The Unlit Social Graph

  A discussion of social relationships that exist in real life, that have not yet been mapped online.

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• The Rise of Place Based Networks

  Flashback to 2005.  I’m sitting on my couch with a friend playing with Meetro - a location based IM service that helped ...

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• Symbian’s Huge Market Share Looks to be in Play

  We seem to be inching towards a major Nokia announcement. In a stunning memo leaked to Engadget, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop ...

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• Verizon Throws Best Customers Under the Bus: Charges Them 3X for iPhone

  By most accounts, the arrival of the iPhone to Verizon has been a resounding success.  Record breaking sales, solid reviews, ...

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