Archive for the ‘Social Network Analysis’ Category

Is Social Media ready for Open Social?

Friday, November 9th, 2007

SYNOPSIS:

Is the phenomena known as “Social Software” ready to be decoupled, or opened up? I’ll go on record saying “No”. Why? Well, for one, because everyone else is saying yes, and I like to be different, but more importantly, because “The Theory” leads me to believe that.

I could be wrong, and that’s OK. I may even be trying to apply the wrong theory to this particular phenomena. I want to inspire thought and conversation here.

One reason I may be wrong, is that software is much better understood then it was just a few years ago, and is behaving much more like modeling-clay in the concept car studio, (thanks in part to better software management and thinkers like [Joel Spolsky] and others) so a software capability may be able to decouple parts of the value chain while leaving other parts available for optimization.

So give this a read and join the conversation in the Comments section at the bottom. (more…)

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My take on Open Social

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Riiiiing… Rrrinnngggg.

Hey Hugh, it’s me, Lawrence. I gotta talk to you about this new open standard that’s going to revolutionize the way we drink: It’s called the Dixie Cup.

It’s really great. What we’ve done is wax coated a plain old paper cup, and now it’ll hold more types of beverages… it’s almost universal! I mean, from Grapefruit Juice to a Gin and Tonic, this thing holds up. It’s going to change the way companies think about distributing and consuming fluid.

Right out of the gate we have agreements from Rubbermaid, PG and Acme Co to modernize their fluid distributions to be transitionally contained by this exciting open standard, and Saul’s working on a logo as we speak.

We also see an expanding market for dispenser apparatus; think about it: every house in America with a Dixie Cup dispenser in the kitchen. You could show up at a party with Dixie Cups and KNOW they’ll fit in the hosts dispenser apparatus.

Oh yeah, we turned the cone shape into a flat bottom to increase lateral stability thereby extending its intra-usage utility. Ted’s doing some R&D around optimal radius to metacentric height ratio to maximize stability.

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Auto-Auto-Biography With An Attitude

Friday, May 23rd, 2003

From the smoking cauldrons in Arlington comes an effort to track every electronic, and some not so electronic, bit of data surrounding a persons life. The electronic data mesh this conceives would be capable of making incredible connections between information, the needs for which are being questioned by government and private agencies alike…
Wired News: A Spy Machine of DARPA’s Dreams

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Semantic Web Introduction Roadmap

Friday, May 9th, 2003

Here is a list of links which explain, in increasing levels of sophistication, an initiative which is attempting to make sense of the glut of information on the web.

The plan is to make it so computer programs can make logical assumptions and relationships between resources on the Web based on the semantics of their content. It is referred to as the Semantic Web.

The links that follow provide a gentle, if not brief, introduction to this initiative.

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RDF Tutorial

Tuesday, April 8th, 2003

Only in the SNA category because RDF seems an important vehicle for conecting related information. A good place to start for the begining technical explorer.

RDF Tutorial – Part I: basic syntax and containers

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The Semantic Web Scientific American:

Friday, March 22nd, 2002

The Semantic Web
Scientific American: Feature Article: The Semantic Web: May 2001
by TIM BERNERS-LEE, JAMES HENDLER and ORA LASSILA
an interesting article from last year covers the basic elements of the semantic Web quite well.

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Avatarnets moving along… Peter Small

Tuesday, November 27th, 2001

Avatarnets moving along…
Peter Small has come a long way with his avaters as a group resource/info sharing medium. His concept of a “virtual cafe” is being used to some extent at:
Agent control panel
His main site give all the background data at:
http://www.avatarnets.com

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