abt. quotedReQuoting pt. 35 (The The Thing Is Edition)
I’ll stop there because I know 70 different exciting (some ‘blue-sky’) ways of shopping.
I’ll also stop there because we certainly can’t afford the time and effort to create 70 different applications. Our job is to specialise in a great grocery home delivery service
tesco [war http://www.techfortesco.com/tjam/Background.html] via excom
Bear shaving
Global warming a problem? Just shave the bears.
The Locus of Identity
However, more and more, the authorized version of our selves is located in a series of databases networked within the Cloud. That data authorizes us to vote, work, travel, purchase, sell, own property and so on. As our social streams are tied to transactional data items, a much higher definition electronic picture of our ‘identities’ begins to come into focus. These words: vote, work, purchase, own— these activities are our main connectors to our society, our economy and the possibility of a private life. There’s a sense in which our personal identity can be reduced to the set of transactional verbs we’re authorized to use within the Network.
Thick Value
Profit through economic harm to others results in what I’ve termed “thin value.” Thin value is an economic illusion: profit that is economically meaningless, because it leaves others worse off, or, at best, no one better off. When you have to spend an extra 30 seconds for no reason, mobile operators win — but you lose time, money, and productivity. Mobile networks’ marginal profits are simply counterbalanced by your marginal losses.
Umair Haque über dünnen und dicken Wert.
The Pump
There’s always a gap between the short-term results of a well-polished system and the first results of a switch to a more efficient one.
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The end result is that organizations that choose to switch are usually the ones with the least to lose. The upstarts and the outliers. One reason they’re always leapfrogging the market leaders
Priming the pump of efficiency
The Ten Commandments
Umair Haques Twitter’s Ten Rules For Radical Innovators
- Ideals beat strategies. What infuriates people most about Twitter is that it seems to have no plan, scheme, or angle. “Hey, Twitter” say the pundits: “don’t you know the business of business is to profit, by any means necessary?”
- Open beats closed.
- Connection beats transaction.
- Simplicity beats complexity.
- Neighborhoods beat networks.
- Circuits beat channels.
- Laziness beats business.
- Public beats private.
- Messy beats clean.
- Good beats evil.
Poetry Cloudlet
aber abgrund aus auslöser dass den die eine für …
(abt. tag der hochkultur)
Tendency to Explode
kk anno dazumal:
Metcalfe’s observation was based on the idea of a phone network. Each telephone call had one person at each end; therefore the total number of potential calls was the grand sum of all possible pairings of people with phones. But online networks, like personal networks in real life, provide opportunities for complicated three-way, four-way, or many-way connections. You can not only interact with your friend Charlie, but with Alice and Bob and Charlie at the same time. The experience of communicating simultaneously with Charlie’s group in an online world is a distinct experience, separate in its essential qualities, from communicating with Charlie alone.
aus der neuverbloggung von new rules
(irre ich mich, oder ist dieser gedanke mit den beziehungs-duples, triples etc. dann versandet?)
RIP RSS
Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed – whatever they grew from, they morphed into a realtime CMS for the emerging media. Twitter, not RSS, became the early warning system for new content. Facebook, not RSS, became the social Rolodex for events, casual introductions to RSS’ lifeblood, the people behind the feeds. FriendFeed, not RSS, captured the commentsphere. RSS got locked out of its own party.
Steve Gillmor sagt R.I.P. zu RSS.
Das vierte Element
1. What compelling reason exists for people to give you money? (or votes or donations)
2. How do you acquire what you’re selling for less than it costs to sell it?
3. What structural insulation do you have from relentless commoditization and a price war?
4. How will strangers find out about the business and decide to become customers?
Thinking about business models
Business Models
When you can make awesome stuff, you don’t need to find “better” ways to sell it. The fundamental challenge of the 21st century isn’t selling the same old lame, toxic junk in new ways: its detoxifying and dezombifying it, by learning how to make insanely great stuff in the first place.
Umair Haque über das beste Business Model.
Unwinnable
Here’s a final, “strategic” point: everytime the music industry kills an underground distribution channel, a more efficient one arises in its place. Goodbye mixtapes, hello www. Bye www, hello Napster. Bye Napster, hi BitTorrent. Bye BitTorrent, hi anonymous, ciphered, totally decentralized p2p nets.
The point? 21st century economics are radically decentralized. Wars against networks are unwinnable – when orthodox organizations are the ones fighting them. Only networks can fight other networks.
Bonus
in der Tat skurril:
Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.
Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.
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The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for….violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions.
On the one hand, we have damages worth maybe (maybe) a few million. On the other, a few trillion.
ReQuoting pt. 33 (The Faulty Assumption Edition)
This whole model is based on this single faulty assumption: that it’s the news itself that’s important to people. It’s not. The news is important, but people want to be able to share the news, spread the news and discuss the news – and you can’t do that when it’s behind a paywall. The very act of putting up a paywall diminishes the value of the content.
Edge Funds
Finance 1.0 has the same relationship with society as Godzilla does with cities. Every once in a while, both surface from the depths and lay waste to everything in sight.
(siehe auch Manifesto)
One-Man Struktur
Welches Service würdest du gerne noch bauen?
Thomas Marban: Ein Service, welches ein Problem löst, das nicht durch das Web selbst verursacht wurde.
t. marban bei helge.at via langreiter
Good Times
The music industry is really focused on the ‘industry’ part and not so much on the ‘music’ part. This is the greatest moment in the history of music if your dream is to distribute as much music as possible to as many people as possible, or if your goal is to make it as easy as possible to become heard as a musician. There’s never been a time like this before. So if your focus is on music, it’s great. If your focus is on the industry part and the limos, the advances, the lawyers, polycarbonate and vinyl, it’s horrible. The shift that is happening right now is that the people who insist on keeping the world as it was are going to get more and more frustrated until they lose their jobs. People who want to invent a whole new set of rules, a new paradigm, can’t believe their good fortune and how lucky they are that the people in the industry aren’t noticing an opportunity…
Music vs. the music industry from Seth Godin by Seth Godin
Something Mysterious
There is something mysterious that happens when we take large numbers of things that are fairly limited and connect them all together. When we take the dumb chip in each cash register in a store and link them into a swarm, we have something more than dumb. … When connected into a swarm, small thoughts become smart.
Kevin Kelly, vor etwa 10 Jahren
Meme!
Was sind Meme? – Provisorische Definition:
Memes sind elementare Einheiten kultureller Information, die “sich selbst replizieren”, in ununterbrochenen Kettenreaktionen, und die in diesem Prozess mehr oder minder komplexe, flüchtige und ausdifferenzierte Felder/Strukturen/ Wolken bilden, die wieder auf den gesamten Mem/Sem-Prozess zurückwirken.
Wheels of Steel
closed systems have their place and time, at the beginning of a new layer, when users need simplicity over everything else, they serve as training wheels when everyone is a newbie. Eventually we grow out of the need to have our hands held and the freedom of open systems becomes attractive, and we jump.
Dave Winer in einem Antworttext auf Louis Grays Tipps für Friendfeed (siehe)
Related:
This notion of overnight success is very misleading, and rather harmful. If you’re starting something new, expect a long journey.
Paul Buchheit über die Ausdauerqualitäten, die man braucht.
(was friendfeed auf alle fälle braucht, ist ein mute-mode auf einer per-user basis. friendfeed ist vielschichtig, warum wieso wäre diplomarbeitfüllend, aber ein problem ist massiv: eine handvoll hyperaktiver user können die je individuelle mischung völlig zusammenhauen; ich will aber einigen trotzdem folgen können, nur will ich jeden eintrag genau einmal sehen und dann nie wieder, ohne likes und kommentare und ohne die zig-fachen permutationen und reaktualisierungen durch twitter, digg, reposts, etc.)