In two years, he wants to end up with "two pillars: the ad stack and the social stack".
In this Q&A-style post, Kevin delves into the standards that make up the emerging open social stack (OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts, and OpenSocial), looking at the infrastructure problems they address, and exploring some of the live implementations, including Plaxo and Google Friend Connect.
Even those with little chance in life tend to blame themselves – "I should have tried harder at school" – not a social caste system that stacked the odds against them.
A social worker sifted through stacks of paperwork that outlined the terms of her new life in America.
The counsellor asks, "is it a good idea?" and the kids all shout back "no!" Among Kerplunk and the other standard board games stacked in a social room are titles that hint at some of the problems faced by these young people, including The Dinosaur's Journey to High Self-Esteem and The Anger Solution Game.
Photos in the archive show quite what a lively social space this facade of stacked front gardens became, following Gropius's idea for the Bauhaus as a social condenser as much as anything else.
Be social, not a social butterfly.
While it is interesting to see how the hot social networks stack up in terms of traffic, I thought I'd also take a look at how well Facebook is doing compared to other Web giants like Google.com, Yahoo.com and MSN.com.
What makes someone a loser -- childhood neglect, social odds stacked against you or simply the arbitrariness of chance?
With so many political, personal, and social disasters stacked on top of each other it seems like a surreal joke: "Oh, he made a joke about eating out his wife on live TV? Oh, he admitted to smoking crack cocaine?
