Post written offline in the bus between Québec and Montréal, after opening 150 tabs of things to read in firefox (loud rock music in my earphones).
Piping your API not considered harmful. A detailed post about combining the power of Yahoo Pipes with API outputs (or own in this example).
After the advertising bubble bursts from Doc Searls.
Thesis #74 of The Cluetrain Manifesto says, We are immune to advertising. Just forget it. We wrote that in 1999, when everybody thought that advertising was going to be THE model for businesses on the Internet. The crash came less than a year later.
Makes me think re-reading the cluerain and re-encoding patterns that would work from what I learned in it is a great thing to do while I think/architect our local/social search platform where merchants are people too (for VRM and real “R” you need two participants on equal footing).
The Pros of Planting Startups in Smaller Cities.
Would love to see a map with Canadian Data. Montreal is going the lead what I call the Node revolution, as opposed to the Hub model Paul Graham keeps writing about. He doesn’t see the completely different model of a decentralized and global economy, maybe he’s too american (or I’m too naïve).
Multi-language Social Networks (via Marc Canter)
But while most social networking tool support multi-language UIs, what they are missing is support for multi-language users.
Bing! The “inter” in internet means international too. Time for an language explosion in web apps. Filter by languages you can/want to read/listen.
I want a feedreader that is also a mublog client and an activity stream aggregator. That is, like Bloglines+Socialthing+Tweetdeck, as a desktop app.
Me too. Lots of good insights in there, read it all. Might end up hiring this guy to do it for us one day. See also the related PostRank Newsroom: Twitter For High-Value Information. with similar concepts.
Recommendation Systems: Where Are We Now, Where Do We Need To Go?
A recommendation engine is the locus where understanding of content and understanding of the visitor-in-the-moment come together. As a result, recommendations are the logical ground for crucial real-time conversations between place-owner and visitor.
Indeed. Quite insightful and spot on the next model transformation (markets are conversations, but the tools to converse in markets are just emerging).
Yelp and Brightkite and Hare and Tortoise
I think Brightkite is a superset of Yelp, wherein you share an “experience of place” with others. Implicit within your sharing of an experience of place is a “implied review”.
Yes, implicit behavior is a much better signal for correlation than explicit actions, most of the time. This is something that gets my brain in full throttle, when is an eplicit action more significant than an implicit one? How can we better predict/recommend/tailor with implicit data (there’s much more since it requires less effort from users). If Yelp is the Hare and Brighkite the Tortoise, I would suggest that Praized is the Draft Horse (strong and reliable). Or a Dalmatian (the firehouse dog). Choose your metaphors carefully!
A Hundred Twitters- A Thousand. It’s about Twitter the model, not only twitter the media/destination. Good starting points in “what we will need” and great comments.
Is Curation the Future of News? Curation is the new role of media professionals. I would argue that it’s a part of their role, upward trending.
Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society (via Michael Geist).
There have been few examples of interdisciplinary dialogue about the importance and impact of anonymity and privacy in a networked society. Lessons from the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society fills that gap, and examines key questions about anonymity, privacy, and identity in an environment that increasingly automates the collection of personal information and relies upon surveillance to promote private and public sector goals.
The book is available for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Canada License by chapter in the refered site. Or you can buy a hard copy at Amazon or Oxford University Press (but then you lose anonymity, hehehe)!
Quickies: hypertable.org, Twittering My Life Away, Twitter discovery engine coming, iPhone RFID: object-based media, Maps from scratch and The only question left , CloudKick, Libre.fm, Gnip.
