Craig Venter giving a Long Now seminar today (25feb08)
Dang, I was not able to finagle a trip to SFO to see this talk. But, if you live in the Bay Area, don’t miss this! Link: Long Now Seminars Craig Venter is...
Category: Strategy
How to teach a service the connections I have in my mind
I’ve been a big proponent of teaching machines by doing. I don’t mean that the machine is ‘watching’ my move and guessing what is going ...
Something about the Clock of the Long Now chimes
The Clock of the Long Now will have chimes that play 10 tones, in unique combination, every day over the course of 10,000 years. I tend to listen to a bunch of ...
Nice little video of Socialthing
Yup. These social network aggregation services are popping up all over. Check out this video Socialthing made of what they are offering (link below, too). Prett...
Yahoo! Design closed down?
I just can’t believe that Yahoo! Design closed down (link to rumour below). I think the department might have closed and that there are designers elsewher...
Yahoo does social-network aggregation with OneConnect
Hm. Social networking aggregation fused with mobiles is THE thing of 2008. I saw this coming from a long way off, but am surprised that Yahoo was able to come o...
Something to keep an eye on: Distributed Social Networking Apps
I met Chris Messina once back a few years ago when he was pushing Flock. Now I see him doing this (link below), while mixing in the social media relationship sp...
A brief history of social networks, from the 80s to the 00s on GigaOM
A thought stirring article on the history of social networks by a friend of mine as guest author on GigaOm. By reviewing the past, Brian is able to focus on the...
Who _are_ the device competitors?
I’m getting some sort of ‘end of Cold War’ feeling. Y’know, the one where the USA outlasted the spending-spree battle versus the Soviet ...
Linearity is killing the Living Web: Blogs don’t work anymore, Google search is useless.
In this age of the Fragmented Web, action streams, multiple personas, and a huge increase in the amount of data out there, how will we Find, Navigate, Recombine...