3 month ago
Linkorama : Knowing what's on your phone--and on those of your employees - First we throw all our data on servers, in clouds, on Amazon's S3, on Google Docs, etc., for the convenience of being able to get at it wherever we go. Then we bring the data back to us again in various caches at very distances from us--proxy servers at t
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Micro Persuasion: Should You Rent or Buy Social Real Estate? - I had this discussion recently with a colleague who asked me why I am investing all this time in building Twitter's "equity" rather than doing so on my own blog, which I have been writing for four years now. It was a rather thought-provoking que
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5 month ago
Linkorama : "Atomization of Conversation" - Conversations are indeed becoming atomized and asynchronous. No need for the "Hey, how are you doing?" discussion. Personal dialog is being replaced by a Mini-feed.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Network Strategies for Network Industries? - The leading firms building telecommunications and Internet infrastructure increasingly emphasize consolidation, hierarchy, and exclusive control, rather than collaboration and decentralization.
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Imposed Stupidity, Emergent Intelligence - With examples of Subversion and Git, this makes me wonder if distributing commit access isn't distributing decision making, but distributing information and the ability to produce
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13 month ago
Linkorama : Decisions, information, decoupling and automation - Thus I believe organizations should think about how to get decisions (or at least candidate decisions) to people, not just information.
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14 month ago
Simon Willison : Thoughts on the Social Graph - Thoughts on the Social Graph. I think social network portability will happen within the next year.
Linkorama : Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph - Goal 1: Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as "the" central graph owner.
Andy Baio : Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph - this nicely articulates the problem and leaves me hopeful
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Decentralization and Security - The wrong kind of structural barriers are harmful to business, and they also harmful to security.
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25 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia & Brittanica Interview - ah, the showdown story
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26 month ago
Linkorama : Langlois and the Vanishing Hand - On the historical trend of corporations unbundling
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Skype as Future of Connectivity - from the edge: Skype, not "Internet 2" represents the future of connectivity.
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33 month ago
deusx : A life online: living decentralised (Mercurytide) - "As the computing world becomes more and more decentralised, people are realising more and more ways to free themselves from a single PC, work socially, and live a life online."
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34 month ago
Linkorama : The Probabilistic Age - hese systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
deusx : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - "these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
jkottke : Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs - Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs: they're probabilistic systems "which sacrifice perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale".
Paul Hammond : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale
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34 month ago
kellan : "they've missed the implicit bargain for search engines that my site being crawled results in [value] for me." - I've been very struct by this idea lately. #
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Weblogs.com sale - I was wondering when someone would bring this up
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Udell on Veriblogspace - What is the future of open blog infrastructure?
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38 month ago
Linkorama : Semi-structured meta-data has a posse - You could make a lot of money or win a lot of bar bets when thinking about the digital realm if you compare technologies between hard or easy, rigorous or sloppy, sophisticated or naïve, expensive or cheap, professional or amateur, and then bet on the
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39 month ago
WillPate : What Business Can Learn from Open Source
Wayne Burkett : What Business Can Learn from Open Source - The startup cheering is tedious, but Graham's thoughts on modern office environments are dead on. #
Linkorama : What Business Can Learn from Open Source - The movement behind the server market and more
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39 month ago
Linkorama : From push to pull - McKinsey article on stuff we've said before
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