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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 other professional game designers. He makes the point...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-06-2010
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 Economy ; and the Reputation Economy . Rose leads...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-03-2008
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... Haacked shares his MVC joke - " So A Model, A...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-29-2008
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 Keyte write about " SaaS Management Platforms ...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-24-2008
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's "social data" including education, work experience...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-23-2007
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?

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-21-2007
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 is mine because I generated it. Because I generated...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-06-2007
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 that allowing a Single Sign On (SSO) service across...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-17-2007
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 of California, Berkeley (I've blooged...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-06-2007
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.

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-23-2007

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