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You Define Your AvailabilityAfter checking in to one of my favorite daily reads, I learned about how a friend and networking guru Fred Wilson handles a deluge of email. Controlling our information input streams is highly relevant to the evolving social web. Effective tools that empower users to better control their personal information streams will be sought after.
Mobile vs. Internet Communication, we share one Internet split by greedCurrent wireless Internet providers use a single service provider or access point to the full Internet backbone. Whether you’re on AT&Ts network through your iPhone, or Verizon’s network for your soon to be released Droid, you send and receive information first through a local wireless connection. But there is a problem with this restricted network design, not all available paths for local wireless connectivity are equally burdened, and enforcing structure on information flow at the beginning and end of wireless access only serves to slow it down. Continue reading »
I had just read an article by Jesse Stay(Open Web – Is it Really What We Think it is?) and like all great posts it got me thinking about how large organizations outside of our control define the type of actions, and information we share online. From Jesse’s point of view, Open meant information control on the level of the individual. While I respect individual rights to privacy and sharing, we should remember that their shared data, and contacts are in a very real sense “owned” by an outside entity (in this case Facebook).
Don’t Believe the HypeThere is so much hype regarding existent and novel social channels that I wonder if many of us are missing the point when it comes to communicating. The quality and character of the message you are trying to transmit is of much greater importance than the specific implementation chosen to broadcast it. Yes, I’m excited about new social tools like Google Wave. But my reasons are somewhat selfish: the technology can be distributed, and wouldn’t necessarily vanish even if businesses liquidated (open source). Continue reading »
How Many People Actually Listen?Out of a couple thousand twitter followers I wondered how many actually care about what I post on a regular basis, and my estimate is probably only a couple dozen. If they follow like myself, they only have time to observe their undirected input streams a couple of times a day. What does it mean to have followers or subscribers for modern Internet browsing habits? Is it simply a token of approval? These questions are in some part supposed to be answered by analytics and statistics. We can see how many folks visit our sites or download files. We see how long they decide to stay on the site, how many other pages they visit, and determine if our content is valuable to them. But I hypothesize that this data is largely irrelevant to our goals. Continue reading »
After writing up the following in a brief message to fellow blogger Randall (recently discovered both of us perceive a similar near future). I thought it best to share the direction I’ll be taking the blog over the next few months with VS community members (aka readers/commenters, you).
While we share information in thousands of ways on Earth, languages have never been designed from the beginning with a focus on optimization of information transfer. More than just another outlandish concept, creating a pre-compressed (low or no redundancy, maximum information density) language to allow much faster transmission and reception of knowledge would provide the following advantages: Continue reading » |
