abt. quotedMesh
From a technical perspective, the largest chunk left to be finished is affinity grouping – taking the atomized identity and social metadata and organizing micro-communities that can act as power brokers in the new information model Mesh creates. From a political perspective, these groups will quickly produce revenue in much higher proportion to the broader less targeted audiences of existing clouds. As that power is increasingly parceled out via Silverlight to the enterprise crowd, Windows and Office become services to be maintained much in the same way that IBM uses open source via its Global Services group.
Key to the transition is the interactive two-way nature of the communication services of the Mesh and Google platforms. Google collects behavioral data from Gmail, Apps, and search, but increasingly the roundtrip between Gchat and Google Reader is producing the high value signals (gestures) that fuel affinity group formation and targeted feedback loops. Mesh atomizes the Google, Facebook, and other social constructs into virtual devices that can be combined from the ground up to attack viral opportunities as they emerge.
Gillmor @ tc
(abt. reconstruct)
Edge Hackonomy
Why is everything hackable today? Because in the edgeconomy, the universe of the economically possible has exploded:
resources are more and more accessible. And if you can get your hands on it, you can hack it. The point is simple: nothing is impossible when you’re hacking.
Hacking means taking things that suck and making them better. Hacks aren’t always elegant, though they should be. But the logic of hacking is elegant: find things that suck, and make them better.
(abt. the subject supposed to know)
Hugendubel
First, I don’t think most authors have competition (except television). The more you read, the better we do. That’s why bookstores are great places to sell books… even though all the competition is right there.
Seth Godin zum vervialinken
ReQuoting pt. 21
Techmeme seems like a fantastic resource for up-to-date information on everything I have absolutely no fucking interest in.
Merlin Mann via LostFocus
Ein Fisch namens Wanda
But there’s a much deeper point The real irony – the epic, massive, intergalactic irony – isn’t just that Silicon Valley’s poster-child of a better future is playing the strategic games of a dead industrial past.
It’s that, in fact, yesterday’s lumbering dinosaurs are actually smartening up faster than Facebook. Even textbook cases of pathological evil like Starbucks and Wal-Mart have decided to play the tiresome, zero-sum games of competitive strategy less and less.
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Facebook’s most productive use today isn’t as a social network, but perhaps more as a case study for the rest of us: of how not to think strategically – how to, in fact, think less strategically than megacorporations – about strategy in an interconnected world.
Facebook, Evil, and The Future of Competition
No. No. No.
Scoble: No. No. No.
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You were wrong both times. I was right both times. Think about it, you’ll come to my way of thinking.
Michael Arrington in einem Kommentar hier (gutes posting, auch ganz gute kommentare, tc wird, kommt mir vor, überhaupt wieder etwas lesenswerter)
Open End
Eine der treffendsten Einschätzungen zu den aktuellen x-connect-availability Entwicklungen von Dave ‘long-term memory’ Winer: How tech wars end
The tech industry is organized around the concept of wars. … if there’s money to be made in controlling users, there’s been a war to lock those users in.
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It’s also in human nature for the users to realize they’re being used, get fed up, and create or discover the technology for themselves thereby routing around all the warring parties.
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Having seen a number of these wars, and seeing each of them end not in triumph, but irrelevance, I believe we’re getting closer to the end in the warfare defined by social networks. … I wouldn’t pay too much attention to what the big players do here, they will be too constrained by BigCo thought processes, and a desire to appear to be giving stuff away without actually giving anything away.
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Open is a funny thing, you can’t be partially open. You can’t edge your way toward open. You can’t be open and hold the valuable stuff in reserve for yourself.
Adverse Selection
Here’s the simple version. Facebook wanted to rule the world; to dominate it; to be the next Microsoft. That’s not revolution – it’s just strategic fascism. And it should be intuitive that fascism cannot hold in a world where power is getting more and more radically liquid by the nanosecond. It’s a delusion; a kind of deep corporate psychosis; the blind fetishization of power and coercion, with no concern for value creation.
(die frage ist tatsächlich weniger, ob facebook nicht doch das nächste google ist, sondern wann facebook das nächste aol wird)
ReQuoting pt. 19
We are not building another social network, we are building social into everything we do.
Mr Balogh via BBC (nachtrag zu)
(irgendwie wär’s um yahoo echt schade, wenn sie in die fänge von ms kämen, etwas mehr sozialwebsche kompetenz als google haben sie allemal, auch wenn ihre zugrundeliegenden motivationen und verkrusteten strukturen bis dato wirklich gute gschichten verhindert haben, der showdown algorithmischer googlenebel der sich über alles legt und in alles fräst und einem zu sich selbst gekommenen transsozialen yahoo wäre sicher nett zu beobachten)
The Granulars
The Information Firehose, Lifestreams, and the Curse of Granularity [http://www.ownyouridentity.com/2008/04/18/the-information-firehose-lifestreams-and-the-curse-of-granularity/]
zuerst feeds
Instead of solving my information problems like I had imagined, feeds had simply substituted one problem for another. Whereas before feed readers I was having a hard time finding all the newly updated content, after feed readers I was having a hard time reading it all.
dann lifestreams
Instead of solving my information problems like I had imagined, lifestreams have yet again substituted one problem for another. Whereas before lifestreams I was having a hard time following my friends, after lifestreams I find out that most of what they do isn’t that interesting after all.
dann granularität (friendfeed usw.), aber
The larger problem is that we don’t know what content is valuable before we see it.
(abt. der knacks)
Die Verwandlung
Why aren’t there more Googles?
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The answer’s very simple. Because every company that had the potential to be as revolutionary as Google over the last five years sold out long before it ever had the chance to revolutionize anything economically.
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Think about that for a second. Every single one: Myspace, Skype, Last.fm, del.icio.us, Right Media, the works. All sold out to behemoths who destroyed, with Kafkaesque precision, every ounce of radical innovation within them.
Und auch sehr super, eigentlich essentiell: ein Video von einem Vortrag von Clay Shirky am Berkman Center.
the internet is not a decoration to society, it’s a challenge to it. a society that has an internet is a different kind of society than a society that doesn’t … we are living through the largest increase in human expressive capabilty in history
Shine
Yahoo made a huge critical blunder today: they decided to compete with their customers.
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Anyway, back to Shine: wow, really dumb idea on Yahoo part. I would kill myself if I was running the publisher network right now. Can you imagine what it would be like to go to WSJ, Jane, iVillage, Glam, or Sugar publishing and try and get them to support Yahoo services?
Calacanis zum Launch von Yahoo’s Shine
ReQuoting pt. 17
Das Web liefert die Hardware für die Enträumlichung einer verdichteten und beschleunigten Kommunikation, aber von sich aus kann es der zentrifugalen Tendenz nichts entgegensetzen.
(habermas at)
(abt. schöne sätze die nicht stimmen)
Bodies without organs
We have reached an age when this stuff is technologically boring enough to be socially interesting.
Clay Shirky via Guardian
(dort auch ein Link zu einem Audiomitschnitt eines Vortrags von Shirky am ICA)
Rekonstruktoren
Sage mir, wie Du Dinge zusammenstellst, und ich sage Dir, wie Du zusammengestellt bist.
Don Alphonso, der Songwriter der nicht müde wird, über den Untergang von Musik wegen HipHop, Techno und Drum&Bass zu klagen.
Mehr Goldketterl
noch 2 Einträge zum Thema nicht- (bzw. nur teilweise) zuhälterische gm’s:
the reason WordPress is eating Moveable Type’s lunch isn’t because of some geeky feature differences. At a critical time in the category lifecycle, they chose a more efficient, more plastic mode of creating, extending and distributing blogging software.
Free as in beer? Some other ways of offering something for free
if you’re lucky, you’ll see a growing demand in your complementary products
Goldketterl
bubblegensche Selbstzusammenfassung:
What that really means is: we don’t “monetize” resources. We co-create and co-produce value.
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Let’s put that a little more formally. Monetization is ugly because it blinds us to the truth that value must flow in many directions. That’s the essence of edge strategy, in fact.
1000 True Fans
A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.
(abt. ausdifferenzierungspotential)
Bubblebrands
At the most basic level, instead of carpet-bombing consumers with traditional ads to build its brand … Google makes a revolutionary strategic decision: it doesn’t actively advertise much, if at all.
That decision, in turn, opens the path to a second, even more revolutionary decision: to implicitly invest in consumers instead of advertising to them.
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Because ads impose costs on consumers – and that’s why consumers are busy tuning them out, and tuning each other in.
(nicht unwitzig: umair haque und seth godin – die doch eine recht unterschiedliche disposition haben – nähern sich in letzter zeit immer öfter irgendwie parallaktisch an, godin etwa auch heute:
Think about that one for a second. Not about maximizing demand, but about sorting it out. When your messages reach the right people at the right time in the right way, magic happens. It’s not about forcing or pushing or attacking or targeting or closing.)
Allen
David Allen: Getting Things Web Done
Q: … The original book was very focused on paper and cut and dry silo working. With information overload and active exchange of ideas and comments online, has anything changed?
David Allen: No.
(siehe auch: pt. 1 Stress)