World Day
leider verpasst: den Firefox World Day
Vireale Verbreitungsstrategie – wenn man bis 15. 9. jemanden erfolgreich zum Download von Firefox einlädt, werden beide Namen in Firefox 2 verewigt.
Strategic Framework
Future of Media Report (pdf) (via)
Klassenarbeit
People Power – Text von Chris Anderson im aktuellen Wired.
Each era was fueled by a faster, cheaper, and more widely available method of production that kicked efficiency to the next level and transformed the world. Now we have armies of amateurs, happy to work for free.
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This is perhaps the most dramatic manifestation of the second-generation Web. The tools of production, from blogging to video-sharing, are fully democratized, and the engine for growth is the spare cycles, talent, and capacity of regular folks, who are, in aggregate, creating a distributed labor force of unprecedented scale.
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Previous industrial ages were built on the backs of individuals, too, but in those days labor was just that: labor. Workers were paid for their time, whether on a factory floor or in a cubicle. Today’s peer-production machine runs in a mostly nonmonetary economy. The currency is reputation, expression, karma, “wuffie,” or simply whim.
(man muss dann wohl Amerikaner sein, um daraus einen Antikapitalismus ableiten zu können, eine Unterstellung, die er dann zurückweist)
Dinge
Ich habs glaub ich schon mal gepostet, egal: The Internet of Things – grossartiger Vortrag von Bruce Sterling bei der Emerging Technology Conference 06.
Level 3
The application could ONLY exist on the net, and draws its essential power from the network and the connections it makes possible between people or applications. These are applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them. EBay, craigslist, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Skype, (and yes, Dodgeball) meet this test. They are fundamentally driven by shared online activity. The web itself has this character, which Google and other search engines have then leveraged. (You can search on the desktop, but without link activity, many of the techniques that make web search work so well are not available to you.) And search applications like Adsense for Content clearly have Web 2.0 at their heart… In the hierarchy of web 2.0 applications, the highest level is to embrace the network, to understand what creates network effects, and then to harness them in everything you do.
see Levels of the Game: The Hierarchy of Web 2.0 Applications
Level 2
The application could exist offline, but it is uniquely advantaged by being online. Flickr is a great example. You can have a local photo management application (like iPhoto) but the application gains remarkable power by leveraging an online community. In fact, the shared photo database, the online community, and the artifacts it creates (like the tag database) is central to what distinguishes Flickr from its offline counterparts.
see Level 3
Level 1
The application can and does exist successfully offline, but it gains additional features by being online. Writely is a great example. If you want to do collaborative editing, its online component is terrific, but if you want to write alone…, it gives you little benefit (other than availability from computers other than your own.)
see Level 2
Microchunking des Sozialen
CommonGate – bau dir dein eigenens social network.
Die Show
noch mehr Videoblog: The Show mit Ze Frank.
Die 9
The 9 – neues Videoblog/Web-TV Hybrid von Yahoo! nach dem Erfolgsmuster von Rocketboom (hot girl, techy news, in beta).
Gut gemacht, Maria Sansone interagiert mit dem eigenen Format, amerikanisch effizient (wäre wahrscheinlich interessant, das mit Toni Mahoni bzgl. des Datendurchsatzes zu vergleichen), man kann auch voten oder submit-en.
Der Schlüssel zu 2.0
The Web is the fabric upon which an ever increasing amount of our lives is woven into. This is now most media including newspapers, TV, radio, entertainment, music, arts, etc. as well as what I call lifestyle logistics; e-mailing, IMs, calendaring, travel planning, time/task management, and more. They are all moving or have already moved to the Web. This very habit most of us have of being on the Web so much of the time, along with the easy lure of the hyperlink, which can redirect anyone via any of these ‘channels’ into a new Web 2.0 experience or site. Thus, if someone loves your new site, they send their friends the link, they send their friends, and so on. Instant pile-on involving tens or hundreds of thousands of users overnight are now common. And good viral feedback loops keep them there and keep them coming back, and bringing their friends with them.
Of course, in a few years the exact design patterns for triggering a new MySpace, Facebook, or similar social juggernaut will become common. Then most likely balance will be reachieved in the industry and there will be less disruption. But for now the secret balance of Web 2.0 techniques that powers growth through efficient access to network effects is still an art. The bottom line: the upside and downside potential of Web 2.0 is truly significant. And it means that in most industries doing nothing is really no longer an option.
Web 2.0’s Real Secret Sauce: Network Effects (wie immer mit grandiosem Diagramm)
MonkeyGTD
MonkeyGTD – alternative zum GTDTiddlyWiki
Wiki 201
What Is a Wiki – and How to Use One for Your Projects – gute Tipps
Fat Head Business
Seiten/Anwendungen, die den long tail beackern (siehe), verteilen sich wohl als fat head (die Summe aller Bookmarks aller anderen Bookmarks-Manager ist viel kleiner als Anzahl der Bookmarks bei delicious, …).
(wobei es auch hier natürlich zu einer shorter tail Ausdifferenzierung kommt, bei der etwa auf bestimmte Themengebiete spezialisierte digg-Klone für wenige viel interessanter sind als digg, etc.)
Disruptive Technology Office
Heise berichtet, dass der New Scientist berichtet, wie diverse Machenschaften bzgl. der systematischen Auswertung von sozialen Neztwerken und personen- bzw. bezeihungsbezogenen Webspuren unternommen werden.
immr
Use twttr to stay in touch with your friends all the time. If you have a cellphone and txt msgs, you’ll never be bored again…E V E R !
Poststrategische Interventionen
Today, the average corporation is packed to the gills with strategists. It’s up to it’s ears in strategy consultants. The language, vocabulary, and ideas of strategic thinking permeate it.
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In a world where strategy is a commodity, creativity becomes the vital factor from which value flows. When everyone can think strategically about everything, the locus of value creation shifts from out-thinking everyone to out-creating them. The prime mover of value creation becomes putting the ability to create (goods, services, processes – even strategies) at the heart and soul of the firm.
Umair Haque in Laws of the Post-Network Economy: Strategy is a Commodity
Malerei
paintings of the obvious (via)
Rekord
Present Tense Blogging
Odeo startet Twttr – eine Art sozialer SMSblogdienst, via