Sunday, June 28, 2026 Strategy, technology, media, and social systems

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Sorin Adam Matei

Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.

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Facebook Gets Connected

A while back I talked about “no password” website login systems where websites can use sites like Facebook or Twitter to authenticate their users. Since then, Facebook’s login system “Facebook Connect” has been deprecated and replaced by OAuth, an open login system…

Imagine: a world without passwords

While I doubt that passwords would have been one of the top things that John Lennon would have liked to see the world without, I am sure that he wouldn’t mind the effort to eradicate this new menace of the internet. As…

Extensible Social Media

The ongoing social media revolution has given us many new ways to communicate with each other. I would like to highlight one of these new avenues of discourse, Twitter, and talk about how its extensibility is it’s greatest feature. This property of…