abt. quotedThe Big Sort
The next generation of the WWW may be driven by environments and tools that enhance serendipity. Companies that find ways to amplify serendipity may reap the greatest economic rewards as we all struggle to improve our return on attention.
John Hagel über die freiwillige Selbstsegregation und andere Web-Merkwürdigkeiten (trennt das internet oder verbindet es, tendieren wir zur clusterbildung von gleichgesinnten mit eingebauten selbstverstärkungsloops, usw.) ((achtung: ca. 100 tweets lang))
Archivwert
I’m starting to realize that using Twitter has a similar relationship to long-form blogging as well. Once you’ve reduced that blog-thought down to 140 characters and tweeted it, there’s little urge to write any more about it on your blog.
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Tweets have no archival value of any sort.
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This brings me to my point. If tweeting has such dubious historical value, and takes away my urge to blog, is it something I want to continue to do?
Russell Beattie über die Twitterökonomie
ReQuoting pt. 27 (Trailing Edge Edition)
We never try to sell to the dumb consumer. We always try to sell to the smart consumer.
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That’s where most retailers fail. To them, every product is perfect. It gets to be implausible.
Matt Rutledge (woot) via Exciting Commerce
platforms are markets
Why do Facebook’s elaborate games of platform strategy seem to be destroying value, while Apple’s platform anti-strategy promises to explode the boundaries of value creation in an industry where those boundaries have long been held to be fixed and immutable?
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The App Store’s name is revealing: it tells us that Apple doesn’t see a platform to be manipulated, but a market to be made. It is that understanding that’s at the heart of Apple’s furious domination of the mediascape.
What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t
Curmudgeons
Internet curmudgeons argue that Google et al are bringing society to ruin precisely because they rob the creative class of its financial support and exclusivity
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The curmudgeons also argue that this level playing field is flooded with crap: a loss of taste and discrimination.
Jarvis zu Curmudgeons etc.
It Could Happen to You
“I never click on ads.” It’s almost a badge of honor to say that. The subtext is, “I’m too smart/busy to waste my time doing that,”
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But the real effect is that you’re starving great content.
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If you like what you’re reading, click an ad to say thanks.
(ich mach das übrigens, ausgenommen sind google ads, die blocke ich grundsätzlich, einfach weil ich nicht will, dass google meinen surftechnischen komplettpfad frei haus geliefert bekommt, und ads, die in irgendeiner annoyigen, versteckten, verarschenden etc. form daherkommen)
Stillstand
Ohne Stillstand also Stillstand.
Dichte Beschreibung
Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major upgrades. There is a new generation of youth across the globe which lead the charge into this changing world, modifying their basic behaviors to adapt to technology as it develops. Some businesses and artists have been able to keep up with these trends while other struggle and fail. The much slower to adapt legal system is being pushed to its limits with organizations on all sides of the issues trying very hard to adapt outdated laws. Most of the new behaviors and organizations creating value have a completely different notion property. Intellectual property, while key to the post-industrial revolution nature of the firm, is more of an encumbrance than an asset to the sharing oriented mode of creation now central to the Internet.
das Curatorial Statement zur diesjährigen Ars Electronica (4. – 9. Sept) von Joi Ito. (via)
Caring
If a newspaper, a radio station or a TV station doesn’t please advertisers, it disappears. It exists to make you (the marketer) happy.
That’s the reason the medium (and its rules) exist. To please the advertisers.
But the Net is different … it doesn’t owe you anything
der sich momentan in Hochform befindliche Seth Godin
Dragon of Love
update zum Seth’s Tail von Kevin Kelly
But if we view the long tail as a market of a different type, as a market of enthusiasm and connection, then as the long tail expands, this increases the chance of two enthusiasts meeting, and so the longer the tail, the better. The first two pockets of the curve are trying to maximize profits; the last pocket of the long tail is trying to maximize passion and connectivity.
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I prefer to think of the Long Tail as being a tail to a different animal. We’ve misidentified the intangible being it belongs to. It is not the long tail of the Beast of Commercial Profits. Rather it is the long tail of the Dragon of Love.
Blow Up
In an edgeconomy, chasing competitive advantage is like playing a game of economic musical chairs – one where you leave a grenade on your chair every time the music starts up again. Sooner or later, everyone gets blown up.
Save the Fail Whale
As you can see, while you had approximately a 1-in-29 chance of hitting a whale nine days ago, you only had a 1-in-2000 chance yesterday.
Company OS
Today, advantage is, to use an unintentionally ironic metaphor, in a company’s operating system – not in its hardware
What Strategists Can Learn From Microsoft Vs Yahoo
ReQuoting pt. 26 (Business Model Edition)
Schon die Aussage, wir hätten ein Geschäftsmodell, ist eine Unterstellung.
Craig Newmark (Craigslist) via furukama
(abt. spreadsheets aren’t strategy, haque)
ReQuoting pt. 25 (The Dromology Edition)
Zeitnähe schlägt Zeitgleichheit.
Sixtus via LostFocus
Fire Hose
There are four services currently accessing our public timeline feed over XMPP: Twittervision, Zappos, FriendFeed, and Summize.
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While the XMPP feed of the full Twitter Public Timeline is an amazing resource, drinking from the fire hose is not the best way to quench a thirst.
A Little Help from My Friends
And with the help of Blogger’s “future-dated posts” feature, the couple was able to post their wedding story on the groom’s blog at the same time that they strolled down the aisle.
ReQuoting pt. 24 (Squirrel Edition)
As with many things involving the language battles raging in Belgium, this proposal has a slightly surreal feel to it. The transfer of this nature reserve from Flanders to French-speaking Belgium would arguably change the linguistic status of its only permanent inhabitants from Dutch-speaking to French-speaking squirrels.
Strange Maps via langreiter
Manifesto
A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution
Consider this. When the last bubble was in internet technology, welfare was minimally affected – jobs were lost. When it shifted to housing and credit, welfare was affected more – houses and saving were lost.
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Today, it’s shifting in large part to energy and food. What happens when hypercapitalism causes a food bubble? What happens when the masters of the universe in Greenwich bid up the price of food for India, China, and Africa’s huddled masses?
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Here’s the answer: marginal starvation. Lives are lost.
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How do we begin reorganizing the industrial economy? By using markets, networks, and communities to alter the way resources are managed: to weave a fabric of incentives for sustainable growth and authentic value creation into the economy – a new economic fabric that’s meaningful to people.
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Google utilized a market – AdWords – to utterly eviscerate a stale, broken media value chain. Here’s a more visceral example. Muhammad Yunus revolutionized finance – not by collecting more money to lend, but by using communities to fundamentally alter the value equation of lending to the poor. The result was industry transformation.
ReQuoting pt. 23
I suggest it’s better described as yet another attempt by a big media company to replace the established legal and social order with with a system of private law (the very definition of the word “privilege”) in which a few private organizations get to dictate to the rest of society what the rules will be.
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The people pushing for this stuff are not well-meaning, and they are not interested in making life better for artists, writers, or any other kind of individual creators. They are would-be aristocrats who fully intend to return us to a society of orders and classes, and they’re using so-called “intellectual property” law as a tool with which to do it.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden via bb zum ap bullshit