Talented socweb hacker Tyler Gillies has been busy late night coding. His latest alpha crafting is a fresh look at communication architectures. p2pmsg is actually a three part peer to peer com system. It’s composed of a client or message generator, a receiver (server), and a routing layer which all facilitate communication between nodes.
Tag: social web
Further thoughts on Relevance
Mark Suster identified the key areas that he see’s as opportunities for improving personal relevance for shared information. His ideal relevance filter will include information sliced by friends, sliced by influencer graph, and sliced by interest graph.
How about a question and answer plugin for blogs?
Instead of one size fits all web services that try and cram all attention and input through a single portal, why not develop thousands or millions of community question and answer hubs? The technical challenge include providing Q&A software (stack exchange or quora like), creating a blog plugin for WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Posterous, etc, and enabling a network glue to allow cross community activity and sharing. Blog hosts can moderate the Q&A board themselves or assign moderation to trusted community members.
Identity Aggregator
After reading Robert Scoble’s post on Angry Birds as a serious identity provider, I couldn’t resist writing up my thoughts. Big network solutions will never be big enough to include everyone without alternatives. This is a quick follow up to an earlier post Internet Identity is Broken.
The Motivation for Contributing to User Generated Content Sites
Why post to Facebook, Twitter, Hacker News or Reddit? Why blog on Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr or Posterous? Why answer questions on Quora? All of these activities can be traced back to social motivation. The desire to share something cool with other folks is a big part of what drives the commercial internet today.
Where should web discussions live?
Tricks for managing information overload
My answer from Quora to What are some strategies for dealing with information overload? (more…)
Quora, an iteration on web forums
A few of my favorite tech bloggers have reviewed the question and answer service Quora, and overall it has received high marks. Mark Suster started it off back in August, Robert Scoble, Mahendra Palsule, and Louis Gray chimed in recently. All of these gents have discussed Quora in a positive light. The site features answer voting, tagging of questions, and comments. The service provides a topic follow model in addition to following specific users, and updates participants with configurable emails.
Internet Identity is Broken
Yesterday morning I left a comment on Mark Suster’s Power of Twitter post, relating to the challenges of identity convergence across namespaces (clarifications added). (more…)
Revisiting Self Hacks through a Network Lens
Networks don’t require the whole person, only a narrow piece. If, on the other hand, you function in a network, it asks you to suppress all the parts of yourself except the network-interest part — a highly unnatural act although one you can get used to… If you enter into too many of these bargains, you will split yourself into many specialized pieces, none of them completely human. (p. 48)