Google Wallet Apple Pay Isis Softcard

When Google Wallet launched, I wrote a piece suggesting that it was a solution in search of a problem—or at least, the wrong solution to the wrong problem.   When Facebook and Google started looking like pretty much the same thing, I suggested that the two monsters of...

Having it Both Ways

It’s one of those idioms that, depending on where you use it, may not mean anything. “Having It Both Ways” is a simple idea, though; it means wanting all things. Taking a position but also wanting one that is at odds with it. In a world where you...

Social Community Comments

Have you ever been involved in a conversation and suddenly realized that it wasn’t a conversation at all? You know; there’s this a-ha moment when you realize that whomever you’re speaking “with” is actually speaking at you?   I’ve...

“The WordPress Community”

Right after I posted yesterday’s piece on The Death of Social Search, I moved on to the rest of my day’s work, drumming up buzz within The WordPress Community for The WordPress Helpers.   It was not my best day. I engaged a few influential WordPress geeks,...