Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks & issues related to libraries.
My personal highligths from this work:
* The turn from groups to social networks lays the basis for a new social operating system
* Being more civically engages on social networks helps building better communities (continue...)
The internet and it's unique ability to rapidly share information across the planet has created a sort of 'hot-bed' for the evolution of language. New phrases, words, acronyms and slangs have been given the ability to virally evolve and disseminate to new populations within a matter of days. Definitions are born, morph, and die based on the evolving collective consciousness of humanity.
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"My favorite metaphor for the current world transition, first pointed out to me by Norie Huddle (Butterfly, 1990), is that of a butterfly in metamorphosis.
It goes like this: A caterpillar crunches its way through its ecosystem, cutting a swath of destruction by eating as much as hundreds of times its weight in a day, until it is too bloated to continue and hangs itself up, its skin then hardening into a chrysalis.
Inside this chrysalis, deep in the caterpillar's body, tiny things biologists call 'imaginal disks' begin to form. Not recognizing the newcomers, the caterpillar's immune system snuffs them as they arise. But they keep coming faster and faster, then linking up with each other.
Eventually the caterpillar's immune system fails from the stress and the disks become imaginal cells that build the butterfly by feeding on the soupy meltdown of the caterpillar's body.
It took a long time for biologists to understand the reason for the immune system attack on the incipient butterfly cells, but eventually they discovered that the butterfly has its own unique genome, carried by the caterpillar, inherited from long ago in evolution, yet not part of it as such (Margulis & Sagan, Acquiring Genomes 2002).
If we see ourselves as imaginal discs working to build the butterfly of a better world, we will understand that we are launching a new 'genome' of values and practices to replace that of the current unsustainable system. We will also see how important it is to link with each other in the effort, to recognize how many different kinds of imaginal cells it will take to build a butterfly with all its capabilities and colors."
"Today there are many talks about cloud computing. Supposedly it can give a new effective way to satisfy needs in hardware and software products and IT services. But what about IT personnel? Can the cloud model be expanded to... cloud staffing?"
If you are keeping up with Facebook's evolution, you would notice its keen adoption of features from other social media sites. With that, Facebook has nothing to be ashamed of (not that they are). In fact, Facebook is the leader of social media partly because of its willingness to embrace ideas that are not of its own.
So what's next, Facebook? Could it be one or more of the 5 possible features that we thought of?
In the world of gastronomy, the catering industry plays a pivotal role in turning events into unforgettable experiences. Whether it's a wedding celebration, a corporate conference, or a social gathering, catering companies are the unsung heroes behind the scenes, orchestrating a symphony of flavors and ensuring that every guest leaves with a satisfied palate. This article delves into the dynamic world of catering, exploring its evolution, challenges, and the key factors that make a catering company successful.
In 1969, the Justice Department, ADR, and several others filed antitrust suits
IBM agreed to stop bundling free software
disaggregation is a natural outcome
multiple companies can move faster
backlog of potential creativity
The OS is dissolving into a soup of resources distributed across both the network and the local device, with the application in the middle calling on both
compatibility
hybrids of local and network resources
gradual evolution of a super-OS that includes both the network and the device
we don't have a name for this new thing
trouble talking about it
I'm calling it the "metaplatform"
Although the metaplatform isn't necessarily elegant
what it lacks in beauty it more than makes up for in rate of change and versatility
technological advances always lead to value chain fragmentation
The most effective mobile application are
If you've incorporated external web services into your site, the site will break if any of those services stops working
We don't have any systematic ways to deal with problems like these
a business opportunity for the next crop of software entrepreneurs
What the metaplatform means
Much of the discussion in this post is pretty theoretical
practical implications
iPhone today gives (in my opinion) the best overall mobile browsing and app discovery experience
APIs that will enable other developers to extend
implementation is often off-target
trying to make their APIs into the business equivalent of an operating system
private ecosystem
opening the application outward
mixed and matched with other functionality in the metaplatform
export data isn’t enough... what springs to mind is open source
Lots to think about
Clayton Christensen
what happens if that company goes out of business or just decides to stop maintaining the product?
a framework to predict where most profits will be made
What does "real-time web" actually means? Basically, getting all the informations you're looking for at the very moment they're are produced, from your sources of choice.
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Here's an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls "Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance".
Some highlights from my transcription below... (continue...)
"Although the Semantic Web (SW) is still very much in its infancy, there is already a lot of data out there which conforms to the proposed SW standards (e.g. RDF and OWL). Small vertical vocabularies and ontologies have emerged, and the community of people using these is growing daily.... "
A new blog is officially online for discussing music on the Web, with debates on payments to artists and issues related to copyright.
It's called a2f2a (artists to fans to artists), and here's the mission statement as stated on the blog page: (continue...)
Interesting slides, that
"introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process of cyberspace and the uman collective intelligence, which is dynamic, in constant change and made in different languages, from different approaches."....
The mobile app development industry is evolving at a faster pace than ever. We have numerous technologies that make evolution possible. And one among such technologies is the Internet of Things. The technology of connecting several devices is now celebrated by almost every industry like education, healthcare, etc. When there is an evident rise in demand for IoT, the IoT mobile app development has also paved the way so far
Ludo, a classic game that is also a feeling for millions of players. The greatest source of bonding time for families, friends, siblings are Ludo game app development? As a result, you may also refer to it as a family game. Ludo has also undergone an evolution. The new Ludo has a pay-per-view option. Ludo has been the most successful and popular online game of the past and presents all the decades. The game includes a multiplayer cross-platform feature that works on Android, Windows, and iOS devices.