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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...
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...
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...
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...
Attention Podcast with Joshua Porter
This is a two part podcast with Joshua Porter . Part 1: 43mb, 45min Part 2: .46mb, 48min Joshua is a little faint to hear at first, gets a bit better later though, sorry about this. Part 1 Notes and Links Turkey, Black Fridays and Boxing Days (intro)...
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