Selbstbeobachtung
Die Wikipedia zum Thema Warum die Wikipedia nicht so toll ist
Freecycle
Frei flottierender Austausch von Zeug mit Freecycle
The Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It’s a grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.
Die deutschen Vertretungen sind hier (in z.B. Frankfurt gibt es schon 685 Teilnehmer)
Mechanical Turk Links
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk ist wohl die bis jetzt bizarrste Interpretation vom social web. Ein paar Links:
- Mechanical Turk = Genius (euphemistisch)
- Top Ten Web 2.0 Problems Amazon Mechanical Turk Can Solve For Me (ironisch)
- Amazon Commodifies Human Intelligence (kritisch)
- Schachtürke (selflink)
oder einen HIT (human intelligence task) zum Zusammenfassen oder Googeln in Auftrag geben.
Suprklebr
Personalisierbare Portale gibt es mittlerweile ja schon einige (Personalized Google, MyYahoo, Microsofts start und live, Protopage, Netvibes, …), mit SuprGlu [war: http://www.suprglu.com/] gibt es jetzt auch ein sehr geschmackiges persönliches Portal, das alles aggregiert, was man woanders eingibt (del.icio.us, flickr, usw.) soferne der jeweilige Dienst einen RSS feed anbietet.
Schachtürke
Amazon hat von ein paar Tagen eine Plattform namens Amazon Mechanical Turk gestartet. Mechanical Turk ist der englische Ausdruck für den Schachtürken:
die umgangssprachliche Bezeichnung für einen Schachautomaten, der 1769 von dem österreichischen Mechaniker Wolfgang von Kempelen konstruiert und gebaut wurde. Der Erbauer dieser Maschine, in der sich ein versteckter Mensch befand, gaukelte den Schachspielern und Zuschauern damit vor, dass dieses Gerät selbständig Schach spielen kann.
Amazon nimmt dieses Prinzip ernst:
When we think of interfaces between human beings and computers, we usually assume that the human being is the one requesting that a task be completed, and the computer is completing the task and providing the results. What if this process were reversed and a computer program could ask a human being to perform a task and return the results? What if it could coordinate many human beings to perform a task?
Ist zwar ein seltsamer Ansatz, aber im Grunde ist das wohl schon jetzt die eigentliche Arbeitsbedingung für nicht so wenige. Nur wird da oft noch eine menschliche Komponente in Form eines wasauchimmerManagers vorgestellt.
Aber bei folgendem Absatz frage ich mich wirklich, ob das nun zynisch formuliert ist, oder nur der Humor von Softwaretechnikern:
Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate “artificial, artificial intelligence” directly into their processing by making requests of humans. Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web services API to submit tasks to the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site, approve completed tasks, and incorporate the answers into their software applications. To the application, the transaction looks very much like any remote procedure call: the application sends the request, and the service returns the results. In reality, a network of humans fuels this artificial, artificial intelligence by coming to the web site, searching for and completing tasks, and receiving payment for their work.Ich hoffe da machen sich Qualifiziertere als ich Gedanken darüber, was so ein Ansatz bedeutet, sonst sind wir bald alle Schachtürken.
Yahoo! Maps
Yahoo hat gestern die Yahoo! Maps aktualisiert, US only, basiert auf Flash.
Symptomatisch ist, dass sie von Anfang an um die Gunst der Entwickler/Mashupper buhlen, siehe etwa die Maps Applications Gallery
Web 2.0 Monday
am 7. November in Köln – das Wiki
Warum / Why
Web Montag – bringt Anwender, Entwickler, Gründer, Forscher, Pioniere, Designer und sonstige Interessenten zum Thema Web 2.0 (im weiteren Sinne) zusammen.
Themen / Topics
Technologie: Ajax, API, Atom, Collaboration, E-Democray, E-Learning, Emerging Technology, Feeds, FOAF, Folksonomy, Identity, Instant Messaging, Location-based Services, Long Tail, Microformats, Mobile, Multimodal Interactive (Wireless Voice), Open Source, Podcasting, Privacy, RFID, RSS, Search, Security, Semantisches Web, Social Bookmarking, Social Networks, Social Software, Spam, Syndication, Tags, Tagging, Voice over IP (VoIP), Web 2.0, Weblogs, Web Services, Wikis, Wireless, XFN …
Business: Marketing, Perspektiven Deutschland (NRW, Südwest), Startups, transatlantischer Austausch (Deutschland-USA), Venture Finance …
(file under: keyword 2.0 spam)
(via Oliver Thylmann)
Audiobook
Tom Coates zu BBC’s Annotatable Audio Project und ein Kommentar von Thomas Vanderwal
Facebook By Numbers
- 5M+ registered users
– coverage of 45% of US colleges (a total of 2,000 – representing 8M students)
– 80% penetration among students of colleges that are on the platform
– 10th most visited Internet site in the US
– 5.5B page/views a month (230M page/views a day)
– 8.5M unique visitors
– signing 20,000 new users a day
– repeat usage: daily 70%, weekly 85%, monthly 93% – can you think of another site that sees 93% of its registered users coming back every month ?
live
Mit dem Start von Microsoft Live erwarte ich mir in der näheren Zukunft ob des Namens / der URL dieses Blogs fantastische Zugriffszahlen, muss nur das Keyword Microsoft verstärkt aber natürlich unaufdringlich einfließen lassen.
Es läuft leider mit Firefox oder IE Mac (den ich mir extra deswegen heruntergeladen habe) noch nicht so wirklich, also nur ein Link zu einem Photo von Michael Arrington auf Flickr (das ganze Set ist lustig).
Die Begriffe:
- Digital Lifestyle (TV and Movies, Music, Memories, Education, Games, Productivity, Communication)
- Digital Workstyle (Spotting Trends for business intelligence, Presence, Unified Communication, Improving Personal Productivity, Insights and structured workflow, Team Collaboration, Optimizing supply chains)
- und dazwischen: Maps/Travel Planning, Calendars/Scheduling, Finding Information, Buying/Selling.
Übersättigung
Fred Wilson und Ross Mayfield zur Aufmerksamkeitsübersättigung und wie viele Feeds dem Menschen zumutbar sind (150).
Zitat eines Entwicklungspsychologen:
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
(Computers, Communications and the Public Interest, pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.)
Mini-hompy
Ich will ein Mini-hompy
(siehe Hypercortex)
Wikipedia gedruckt
Nicht unwitzige Wendung: die Encyclopaedia Britannica gibt nicht mehr es doch noch (danke Mathias) in Buchform (soweit ich weiss), Teile der Wikipedia könnten aber bald gedruckt werden, um sie auch in weniger vernetzten Ländern zugänglich zu machen.
siehe Reuters/Yahoo News
Microloans
Kiva – eine Plattform für Micro-kredite/loans.
By partnering with existing microfinance organizations and institutions, Kiva finds outstanding entrepreneurs who need loan funding. Our expert in-country staff works with these partner organizations to conduct due diligence on each business, and once approved, post each business’ profile on our website. This is where you come in. You can choose loan money online, using your credit card or Paypal, in increments as low as $25 toward the loan needs of a business. With your participation, Kiva gives entrepreneurs access to the capital they need to lift themselves out of poverty.
Sehr, sehr nett. Wenn’s was wird, bekommt man das Geld zurück, wenn nicht ist es eine Spende, lest euch das about durch.
iTags
Mary Hodder tüftelt gerade an einem Konzept namens iTags:
The idea is that a user could tag an object (photo, video, sound file, text or an entire blog post), where the tag, and the object, would then go out through the RSS feed or be spidered, with some additional information that doesn’t now exist in tags.
Web 2.0 Sudoku
Future Study Wiki Raid
Heute ist übrigens der Future Study Wiki Raid
We would like to organize a global, 24-hour effort to add as much information regarding futures studies as we possibly can – and in as many languages as we can – to the Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia. We are asking for individuals to volunteer to describe or explain some specific aspect or sub-topic in futures studies, and then input that (or find an input buddy to add it) to Wikipedia.
Was die Geschäftswelt von Open Source lernen kann
Amüsante Keynote von Paul Graham bei der OSCON 2005 (gibt es auch als Text hier).
(note to self: bzgl. der Selbstausbeutung überdenken)
ein paar zitate:
I think the most important of the new principles business has to learn is that people work a lot harder on stuff they like.
It was the narrowness of such channels that made professionals seem so superior to amateurs. There were only a few jobs as professional journalists, for example, so competition ensured the average journalist was fairly good. Whereas anyone can express opinions about current events in a bar. And so the average person expressing his opinions in a bar sounds like an idiot compared to a journalist writing about the subject.
On the Web, the barrier for publishing your ideas is even lower. You don’t have to buy a drink, and they even let kids in. Millions of people are publishing online, and the average level of what they’re writing, as you might expect, is not very good. This has led some in the media to conclude that blogs don’t present much of a threat— that blogs are just a fad.
Those in the print media who dismiss the writing online because of its low average quality are missing an important point: no one reads the average blog. In the old world of channels, it meant something to talk about average quality, because that’s what you were getting whether you liked it or not. But now you can read any writer you want. So the average quality of writing online isn’t what the print media are competing against. They’re competing against the best writing online.
And when I read, say, New York Times stories, I never reach them through the Times front page. Most I find through aggregators like Google News or Slashdot or Delicious. Aggregators show how much better you can do than the channel. The New York Times front page is a list of articles written by people who work for the New York Times. Delicious is a list of articles that are interesting.
The third big lesson we can learn from open source and blogging is that ideas can bubble up from the bottom, instead of flowing down from the top. Open source and blogging both work bottom-up: people make what they want, and the best stuff prevails.
Does this sound familiar? It’s the principle of a market economy. Ironically, though open source and blogs are done for free, those worlds resemble market economies, while most companies, for all their talk about the value of free markets, are run internally like communist states.
There are two forces that together steer design: ideas about what to do next, and the enforcement of quality. In the channel era, both flowed down from the top. For example, newspaper editors assigned stories to reporters, then edited what they wrote.
Open source and blogging show us things don’t have to work that way. Ideas and even the enforcement of quality can flow bottom-up. And in both cases the results are not merely acceptable, but better.
Der Triumph der Amoralität
Wolfgang Sommergut zu/gegen Nicholas Carr’s The amorality of Web 2.0
Mein Senf: Carr hat mit der Amoralität des Web 2.0 (auf eine von ihm nicht so gemeinte Weise) nicht so unrecht, weil sich die Geschäftsmodelle des Publizierens verschieben bzw. schon verschoben haben (siehe AdSense, Ebay, Amazon, AOL/Weblogs Inc., usw.), also weg von bezahlten, redaktionell erstellten Inhalten, hin zu dem grauenhaften Terminus ‘user generated content’ und den Vermarktungsstrukturen und Verwertungsinteressen, die sich darum gruppieren.
Astronauten
Joel (on Software) on Web 2.0
Now it’s tagging and folksonomies and syndication, and we’re all supposed to fall in line with the theory that cool new stuff like Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Del.icio.us are somehow bigger than the sum of their parts. The Long Tail! Attention Economy! Creative Commons! Peer production! Web 2.0!
The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It’s not a real concept. It has no meaning. It’s a big, vague, nebulous cloud of pure architectural nothingness. When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little bit stupider for the rest of the day.
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Not only that, the very 2.0 in Web 2.0 seems carefully crafted as a way to denegrate the clueless “Web 1.0” idiots, poor children, in the same way the first round of teenagers starting dotcoms in 1999 dissed their elders with the decade’s mantra, “They just don’t get it!”
Irgendwie ist das symptomatisch für ein ganzes Genre von Web 2.0 bashing nach dem Muster:
- eine Unterstellung: and we’re all supposed to fall in line with the theory
- ein Gefühl: When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little bit stupider for the rest of the day.
- eine Verweigerung: seems carefully crafted as a way to denegrate the clueless “Web 1.0” idiots