May 2nd
The Del.icio.us Lesson
Personal value precedes network value.
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February 22nd
Web 2.0 Talk – Leveraging the Network
Here’s the slide deck for a talk I gave on Web 2.0 for the Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM, a non-profit educational and scientific society of computer professionals in the Boston area.
Web 2.0 – Leveraging the Network (2.74 MB pdf)
In the talk I spoke about how Web 2.0 companies distinguish themselves by leveraging the network of which they are a part. Brittanica, for example, has had a web site for quite some time and were slow to leverage the network in any particular way. Wikipedia, on the other hand, exists only because they used the available network to improve their contents communally. And Wikipedia, of course, is a much, much more popular site.
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February 14th
Authority, Whose Authority?
So which do you think will be more valuable?
A) Technorati’s generic authority slider (Scoble’s coverage | Technorati)
B) Findory’s personal authority recommendations (Barnett’s coverage | Findory)
November 18th
Podcast of Web 2.0 Talk
Update: Added slide deck. Ok, this is scary. I’m posting a podcast of me giving a talk on Web 2.0. (also posted on Brain Sparks, the supremely interesting UIE blog). My wife assures me that my voice does indeed sound like that, (much to my dismay). I was asked to speak at an NEASIST event […]
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November 3rd
AttentionTrust – Returning Attention to its Rightful Owner: You
Herbert Simon famously once said: “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.” This quote is turning into one of the mantras […]
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October 22nd
How Does Amazon Scale Behavior Modelling?
In thinking about how the most successful sites model human behavior (my current meme), Amazon kept coming to mind. Amazon is amazing at modelling how we talk about books. Notice that I’m not just talking about buying books, I’m talking about how we talk about books. In other words, they don’t just make it easy […]
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