abt. quotedder Beginn
… der Beginn der wahren Internet-Ära“, sagt Tim O’Reilly
… Zugriff auf einzigartige, schwer nachzubildende Datenquellen“, sagt O’Reilly.
… die man besser Google-Ära nennen sollte“, sagt O’Reilly
… Sie müssen ihr Geschäftsmodell transformieren“, sagt O’Reilly.
… müssen sich mit einem anderen Unternehmen zusammenschließen“, erwartet O’Reilly
… von den großen Unternehmen aufgekauft zu werden“, sagt O’Reilly.
… sind noch lange nicht wieder soweit wie im Jahr 2000“, [entwarnt] O’Reilly.
… hat es Anfang der neunziger Jahre diese Entwicklung gegeben“, sagt O’Reilly.
… 20 oder 30 Millionen Dollar geboten bekommen“, sagt O’Reilly.
… lassen sich auch mit zusätzlichen Informationen anreichern“, erwartet O’Reilly.
… auch in anderen Industrien stark zunehmen“, sagt O’Reilly.
… wenige Blogs, die eine große Leserschaft haben“, sagt O’Reilly.
… könnte ein neuer Erlösstrom für die Zeitungen sein“, erwartet O’Reilly.
aus der F.A.Z. über/mit Tim O’Reilly (dessen Strategien für die Mainstream-Medien/Zeitungen erstaunlich uninspiriert, wenn nicht völlig daneben sind)
Abenteuer
Die cutting edge der Webtechnologien auf die man ein Auge werfen sollte:
recombinant, self-assembling software that exploits collective intelligence
Dion Hinchcliffe (wie immer mit fabelhaftem Diagramm)
(abt. return of the black box)
Produktion
the people innovating on the form are not the same as those who are innovating on production.
(gutes Posting von kottke)
Kaffee
ABER DAS SEI ALLES DER JOHNNY HAEUSLER GEWESEN! DER HABE DAS ALLES GEMACHT! SOGAR DIE PHOTOSHOP TEMPLATES UM DIE KAMPAGNE ZU VERULKEN! ALLES JOHNNY HAEUSLER! wer denn dieser haeusler sei, fragte die moderatorin im namen des publikums. ACH DAS SEI DER BLOGGER SCHLECHTHIN DER DIESE GANZE CHOOSE MIT DEN WEBLOGS INS ROLLEN GEBRACHT HÄTTE, MIT SONER JAMBA-GESCHICHTE DIE DANN GANZ GROSS GEWORDEN SEI WEIL DER SPIEGEL SIE AUFGEGRIFFEN HÄTTE (darauf folgte ein vorwurfvoller blick in richtung blumencron). „DAS WAR ALLES DER HAEUSLER, DER REST IST ZU NEUNUNDNEUNZIG KOMMA NEUN PROZENT IRRELEVANT!“
uff aber nicht unwitzig
ReQuoting pt. 5
An investigation of the essence of simplicity must necessarily get involved with the psychology of human-machine interaction.Why do we display such a strong proclivity to regarding technology as an externally imposed authority, to condemning or venerating it?…If we merely equate simplicity with simplification and reduction, simply let the technology become “invisible”, we not only manifest our inability to even recognize the type and extent of the technological deployment, but we also relinquish the ability to perceive its consequences and side effects. In doing so, we cheat ourselves out of not only our capacity for self-determination but also the possibility of fully utilizing technology’s capabilities.
Ars Electronica via svn
(Abt. Witze mit und/oder ohne Erklärung)
ReQuoting pt. 4
…anyone concerned with what you’re paying attention to is out to make money off of you. Trying to paint attention monitoring or tracking or trust or what have you as anything other than that is dishonest. You and I are not that important. No one, I mean no one, besides a suspicious mate cares what you pay attention to online unless they’re looking to divorce some bread from your wallet.
Blockquoting
Immer, wenn sich ein Großkonzern eine Community unter den Nagel reisst, setzt Umair Haque zu seiner Standardpredigt an. Selten ist sie ihm aber so gut gelungen wie diesmal [sony kauft grouper]
Web 2.0 Denkfehler: Consumities vs. Communities
But the consequence of this is suboptimal conversations and collaborations: A lot of wasted time, high travel cost, a great deal of miscommunication and non-communication, misunderstandings about what has been learned and decided, great ideas and important information not heard or not used, learnings and information lost or forgotten, and collaborations dominated by the loudest or most powerful instead of drawing on the best from all participants.
Social Networking: Why are Conversation and Collaboration Tools so Underused?
Measuring the disruption in performance terms proves difficult and is an opportunity for research. I have not found a way to measure the lower cost (zero marketing budget) of user acquisition and lower churn through virality and network effects. But you can measure the impact of disruption. Craigslist cannibalized the Bay Area classifieds market by $60 million by 2004, when they had $6 million in revenue. This is asymmetric competition against models that provide less freedom to communities.
Die Kunst ist nicht, alles anzubieten, was möglich ist, sondern aus der Vielzahl von möglichen Optionen die vielversprechendsten auszuwählen.
Einfach genial: Einfache Konzepte für einfache Menschen
Kulturkonvergenz
(irgendwann mal) Convergence Culture von Henry Jenkins
“Convergence Culture” maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media producer, and the power of the consumer interact in unpredictable ways. Henry Jenkins, one of America’s most respected media analysts, delves beneath the new media hype to uncover the important cultural transformations that are taking place as media converge. He takes us into the secret world of “Survivor Spoilers”, where avid internet users pool their knowledge to unearth the show’s secrets before they are revealed on the air … Industry leaders see opportunities to direct content across many channels to increase revenue and broaden markets. At the same time, consumers envision a liberated public sphere, free of network controls, in a decentralized media environment. Sometimes corporate and grassroots efforts reinforce each other, creating closer, more rewarding relations between media producers and consumers. Sometimes these two forces are at war. Jenkins provides a riveting introduction to the world where every story gets told and every brand gets sold across multiple media platforms. He explains the cultural shift that is occurring as consumers fight for control across disparate channels, changing the way we do business, elect our leaders, and educate our children.
Infotag
Warm-up zum Barcamp Berlin: der Web 2.0 Infotag am 27.9. in Berlin unter den Linden.
Seit vergangenem Jahr fasst der Oberbegriff Web 2.0 eine Reihe von Merkmalen neuartiger Web-Anwendungen zusammen, wie del.icio.us, flickr und last.fm, die das WWW als Plattform für kommerzielle Anwendungen aus der Sicht von Anwendern wie Unternehmen wieder attraktiv werden lassen. Einige von diesen Merkmalen, die der amerikanische Verleger Tim O’Reilly in einem für das Entstehen der Idee Web 2.0 wegweisenden Artikel (deutsche Version) dargelegt hat, sind: Anwendungen leben davon, dass Ihre Nutzer Inhalte beitragen; Statt vorgefertigten Schemata helfen ad hoc durch die Benutzer vergebene Schlüsselbegriffe (Tags) bei Organisation und Suche von Information; Web-Benutzungsschnittstellen gewinnnen durch Dynamisierung (DOM Scripting) an Interaktivität und Attraktivität; Durch das Anbieten von Inhalten über offene Programmierschnittstellen (Web-APIs) und die Einbettung maschinenlesbarer Daten in Webseiten (z.B. in Form von Microformats) können Inhalt und Funktionalität von mehreren Anwendungen durch “Mashups” verknüpft und Mehrwert geschaffen werden.
Cute Overload
Remember my rule: The venture business is a bubble business. The industry owes its existence to its participants’ ability to find and exploit liquidity bubbles in technology markets. In this case there is a bubble, but it’s entirely at the company creation end of things, not the liquidity end (i.e., IPOs and M&A), which makes it the strangest and least economically rational technology bubble I’ve ever seen.
Social Design
Ugly when compared to pre-existing notions of taste is a bummer. But ugly as a representation of mass experimentation and learning is pretty damn cool. Regardless of what you might think, the actions you take to make your MySpace page ugly are pretty sophisticated. Over time, as consumer-created media engulfs the other kind, it’s possible that completely new norms develop around the notions of talent and artistic ability.
Ze Frank in seinem Stück zu MySpace
requoted via Joshua Porter – Ugliness, Social Design, and the MySpace Lesson
MySpace is the ultimate site when it comes to reframing the debate in terms of user experience, usability, and most importantly what matters to users. In the world of user experience its all about figuring out what matters to users, and the MySpace example (and most of the teenage world) is a true enigma for us all. That’s why MySpace is so damn interesting…because we don’t understand it! And that’s why it’s such a good example of understanding users, because most people who do that for a living (usability folks, designers, interface hacks) have few preconceptions about the service (or negative ones) because they don’t use it, don’t understand why people do use it, and don’t want to use it. In most other applications designers have preconceived notions because they’re familiar with the domain in some way. Not so on MySpace.
(MySpace ist ja wirklich so eine Art Höllentrip, aber die einzige Seite bei der ich bisher irgendwie das Gefühl rhizomatisch hatte)
defaults
Anonymity as the default, and why digital ID should be a solution, not a platform auf Joho the blog.
das Viral
I think where traditional marketers and ad agencies screw up in this space is, they fail to understand that a viral [or a “snowball”, call it what you will] is not a message, but in fact a social gesture.
Political Malware
Tom Coates in On Massively Multiplayer Propaganda… über ein Tool, das alerts people to new articles and polls around the web that question Israel’s policies in the Middle East or ask for public opinion about them. The people concerned are then supposed to visit the site directly and respond to the poll or story or write an e-mail or whatever.
Now I want to make it very clear here very early on that I’m not going to be making an anti-Israeli tract. It’s pretty much irrelevant to me who is using this particular tool – just that the tool exists. Or more specifically – since there’s no way to put the genie back in the bottle – that tools like this exist and will continue to exist from now on as ways to attempt to deform the social discourse – whether that be for Democrats, Republicans, Israelis, Iraqis, Americans, Conservatives. This should be troubling to all of us, although I’m not sure that there’s very much we can do about it.
The short term consequence will be that all large scale public discussions and polls on the internet will become highly suspect – none of these groups are set up to deal with this kind of political spam yet. And that has to heavily affect the ability of organisations that deal with feedback from their audiences to do so fairly or to respond to a real constituency rather than just innumerable interest groups. This is, in effect, a way of harnessing hundreds of thousands of people to massage the public debate – the massively distributed conversation of the internet now has a form of PR – a form of propoganda – to match.
… Because a tool that alerts people to points of debate around Israel isn’t only useful to Israelis, any more than a tool that alerts the Green lobby to big issues is of use only to environmental activists. I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see the same tools exposing the same data being co-opted by the direct opponents of the various groups that set them up. Each poll or news article may become nothing more than flashpoint fights between radicals of every persuasion in which the quieter, more average voices get completely drowned out. So there you have it – flashpoints of argument, massively multiplayer campaigning and propoganda techniques, the loss of the common voice and a scouring of the commons. So much for a democratising medium…
Zukunft ohne Widgets
Durchschnittlicher Futurismus, selbst wenn er im Gewand von “Szenarios” verkauft wird (die nur Plausibilität dort suggerieren sollen, wo Wahrscheinlichkeit regiert) ist selten von unbezahlter Produktpräsentation zu unterscheiden. Zumal in technisch orientierten Blogs, in denen Features und Gadgets ein Surrogatgefühl von Zukunft herstellen müssen.
… Wer nicht in der Lage ist die Frage nach dem “Wozu?” zu beantworten, ist in seinem Gebrabbel über Technologie und Zukunft dazu verdammt billige Werbung für bunte Perlen auf einem Weg zu machen, der unsichtbar bleibt, wenn man mit der Nase am Asphalt klebt.
Siggi Becker in Futurismus ohne Gadgets
Library 2.0
Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries
It is communally innovative. This is perhaps the single most important aspect of Library 2.0. It rests on the foundation of libraries as a community service, but understands that as communities change, libraries must not only change with them, they must allow users to change the library. It seeks to continually change its services, to find new ways to allow communities, not just individuals to seek, find, and utilize information.
Identity Continuum
Identity isn’t a continuum with anonymity at one end and documented, certified, authenticated ID on the other. It probably never was and it certainly isn’t online. There’s a third vertex: Pseudonymity. Pseudonyms online are not midway between anonymity and ID. They’re different in kind, but enough on the same plane that any discussion of anonymity and ID that does not include pseudonyms is likely to go wrong.
Schreiben
Jason Fried zu Writeboard vs. Wordprozessoren
One of the criticisms we get from time to time about Writeboard is that it doesn’t have WYSIWYG formatting or fancy layout tools. That’s because it’s a writing tool, not a word processor. There’s a world of difference.
Writing is getting the words right. Word processing is… processing. It’s taking what you’ve written and doing stuff with it. Either bolding this or italicizing that or centering the headline or inserting a table or tweaking the margins or changing the font and sizes or adding color or… That’s word processing or page layout.
… Writing tools like Writeboard and the pleasantly austere WriteRoom (for Mac OS X) take their cues from blank pieces of paper or typewriters. When you sit down to one of those you’re ready to write. Writing is all you can do. And when you’re about to write that’s all you should be ready to do: write. Leave the rest for another day. There are words to get right.
(siehe auch Getting Real wo sie an einer Stelle beschreiben, dass sie Feature-Requests lesen, und dann löschen)
Data
Gina Trapani zu den eigenen Daten im Web
- I want to take my stuff with me, into the future and into places that don’t have internet access.
– I want to search across my documents and data stores and connect my ideas, without being dependent on third party services to do so.
– I want what I do with my data to be limited only by my imagination and not the API’s, Terms of Service, functionality and server uptime of some random company. (This is why I lasted 2 months using Blogger back in 2001.)
– I don’t necessarily want my data branded by a company or advertised against in ways I can’t control.
– I hate identifying myself with services. It’s like wearing a tee-shirt with a Nike swoosh on it. del.icio.us? Geek. Flickr? Hipster. Plaxo? Biz person. Bloglines? Info junkie. Gmail? Early adopter who knows someone with an invite. And so on.
Konzept des Tages: Intrapreneur
Intrapreneurship
The spirit of entrepreneurship within an existing organization. Intrapreneur is a person who focuses on innovation and creativity and who transforms a dream or an idea into a profitable venture, by operating within the organizational environment. Thus, Intrapreneurs are Inside entrepreneurs….