Gavin Bell

Nature

Gavin designs social software for the Nature Publishing Group. He has worked in web product development since the mid-90s. Large scale web applications covering identity management, on-demand media and social software have been the main focus of his work. Gavin lives in London with his wife and son. He writes on nascent for Nature and on take one onion. His personal website is gavinbell.com

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Data portability for whom? Some psychology behind the tech

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Gavin Bell (Nature)

We are prone to solve technical problems addressing the needs of conference attending alpha geeks. Yet, widespread adoption is quite different to a private beta. What does this mean? How do we mitigate the desire for rapid progress with the needs of the rest of us? These hot new technologies require some psychological insight to make them meaningful. You know the technology, come and grok humans Read more.