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Apparently, taking the dog for a walk is worth about 200 Achievement Points.
Via Kevin Kelly, I found this talk by games designer Jesse Schell speculating on the future of games. Kelly summarizes the talk: "Schell begins his talk with very narrow concerns about Facebook games, which is not surprising since his audience here is...
Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE
I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson , discussing FREE . The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy ; the Attention...
Geek Juice
Yup, I've definitely been missing my feedreader (and now FeedDemon is free I really have no excuses to catch up). So much good stuff out there, so little time! Here's a sample of the good stuff I've been running into... MVC, I know what you're thinking...
Among the dynamos, My Data and advice for startups.
SaaS / DaaS / WaaS (Whatever As a Service) and Mashups Nick Carr quotes Henry Adams in Among the dynamos “One lingered long among the dynamos,” he wrote, “for they were new, and they gave to history a new phase. Pointing to SaaS Platforms trends , Clive...
Facebook export - WTF????
On hearing the news over at TechCrunch that I'm able to export my social network data out of Facebook as a .CSV file using the FriendCSV app , I did exactly that. I have 74 contacts on Facebook but I managed to export 144 records . That's 70-odd people...
LibraryThing again
I ended the day re - visiting my LibraryThing . Glad I did...I had forgotten how damn good it is. Time to update my catalog with about a year's lot of books. Worth doing since I can get my data out and re-use elsewhere . Otherwise, why would I bother...
My data - let me use as I choose
I read Chris Messina's post this morning, "A Bill of Righteous Intent" where he discusses the draft manifesto: A Bill of Rights for Users . I liked what I read. The manifesto supports the concept of what I've been calling "my data". In short, my data...
Closed is Still the Old Closed.
Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Chief Architect and the man behind Windows Cardspace (was infoCard), has shared his perspective the question of whether or not OpenID would make customers' lives better on social networks. There appears to be a general agreement...
The Expanding Digital Universe
IDC and EMC have released a new study today - 'The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010' . (press release here ). It's fascinating stuff. The research follows previous work conducted at the University...
Thinking with a hyperlinked-content processor
Alex Pang's post Thinking with a word processor led me to ask myself... This question: How does my trawling / tagging / blogging / processing of hyperlinked content affect my thinking? Answer: Immeasurably, I suspect.
Tagging behind the *firewall* - a case study
I've written about 'Enterprise Tagging' or 'tagging behind the firewall' before, but haven't come across any case study material in this area, until yesterday that is. In his latest post, Andrew McAfee has written up a short report...
A little less conversation a little more action please
On APML , I tend to agree with what Stowe has said on the topic and John Tropea has some good thoughts too . To Marjolein - frankly, I'm getting tired of the attention conversation. Not because I believe it is not worthy idea, but because there's...
Alex Barnett Podcasts
Alex Barnett Podcasts - I like podcasting, here are the links to them. 2008 - Podcasts for the Bungee Line Nate Bowler, CTO of @Task , July 20 2008 @task (or AtTask ) is a Utah-based tech company providing a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio...
Moving my blog
OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog .
Search & Enjoy! (Podcast) The Power of Search and Recommendation
"Speakers from Microsoft, Blinkx and Last.fm discussed issues of content regarding search, recommendation, the semantic web and the ownership of data in the Web 2.o era at Content 2.0 on 6th June 2006." I was on the panel with Matthew Ogle of...
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