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Wildcat2030 wildcat

Why POiU? Why now? « POiU - 11 views

poiumarketplace.com/...why-poiu-why-now

Networking social objects Social standards data

shared by Wildcat2030 wildcat on 13 Jan 10 - Cached
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  • Wildcat2030 wildcat on 13 Jan 10
     
    "POiU is being created because the world is changing. The recent expansion of social media platforms shrank our world and broadened people's ability to communicate and connect regardless of physical location, cultural or even linguistic barriers. In addition to immense opportunities, we face significant challenges as a community. If not addressed and decisively tackled, these challenges could jeopardize the quality of life and even our very existence as an evolving human civilization. There are warning signs already: the widespread economic and financial instability, unclear energy future, uncontrollable environmental changes and growing gaps and failures to deliver adequate food, water, healthcare, education, and other resources and services that support society wellbeing and development. These warning signs could lead to acute and systemic crises resulting in general misery and destruction. Our best chance at overcoming this outcome is to utilize the tools we have today to tap into the collective wisdom and together select the best solutions and together put them into action. History teaches us that war has been the way in which countries could achieve total coordination to pull out of massive economical crises. But today, social networks present an alternative, allowing total coordination of the masses. This is a tool that, for the first time in our evolution, offers a constructive way to unlock the power of our collective mind and unite us under a common purpose of finding answers to our current challenges. Our future is at stake. Focusing on the opportunities and solutions, POiU will capitalize on the power of social networking to enable positive change. Together, we are building a fully functioning online society with governance and commerce, fostering a personal sense of place and belonging. This effort is empowered by POiU's launch of a collaborative platform that aims to become one component of the new coordinating system we need. The answers to our cha
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  • Jack Logan on 13 Jan 10
     
    Wildcat - are you a participant? Do you know any of the folks participating in POiU? I'm interested; what I see (in about 30 minutes) verifies the way I see the world going! Your other thoughts?
  • Wildcat2030 wildcat on 13 Jan 10
     
    no, actually I just came across this few days ago and still trying to understand the idea.. that we need a new coordinating system is beyond dispute, however if Poiu has anything of value to add to the debate I am not sure, will do some more research..
  • François Dongier on 13 Jan 10
  • Jack Logan on 13 Jan 10
     
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Exchange_Trading_Systems does look like the general idea. I do think that the world is entering a period of 'collectivity' but it's not formed in any place that's far enough along to know what to do with it except to 'volunteer' at this point.
  • frank smith on 13 Jan 10
     
    ok... this is eerily like what we were describing yesterday in: http://message.diigo.com/message/so-i-will-now-try-a-bit-of-blogging-my-aunt-observed-today-that-social-networking-is-the-21st-cen-723705 Also, they say it is a country. VERY interesting. Kinda reminds me of Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong franchises in Neal Stephenson's "Snowcrash" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash Of course by the time set in the story private countries are physical and not only virtual.
Kurt Laitner

Can Google Generate Buzz in the Enterprise? - PCWorld Business Center - 2 views

www.pcworld.com/...te_buzz_in_the_enterprise.html

Google Buzz

shared by Kurt Laitner on 10 Feb 10 - Cached
  • A tool like Google Buzz, however, relies on the web of connections users have established in their social networks, and loses much of its appeal without the ability to integrate Picasa, YouTube, and other such services. Users don't want to have to manage dual personas, so Google needs to figure out how to integrate the enterprise and consumer services, but provide IT administrators with the tools necessary to restrict or deny access.
  • Kurt Laitner on 10 Feb 10
     
    or solve the more general problem and let people manage multiple identites and authorizations / grouping metadata sets
fishead ...•∞º˙

50 group limit - 15 views

the tool should not require me to stand on my head to think.. but that may be a temporary solution, time to experiment with multiple personality disorder, I fear I may enjoy it too much

started by Kurt Laitner on 18 Feb 10 9 follow-ups, last by fishead ...•∞º˙ on 22 Feb 10
Kurt Laitner

New Rules for the New Economy - 0 views

www.kk.org/...s-associated-with-the-gene.php

Kevin Kelly Rules emergent behavior

shared by Kurt Laitner on 16 Feb 10 - Cached
  • the technical specifications of the software that the Well used directly shaped the kind of community growing within it
  • Other models of conferencing software used elsewhere produced different kinds of communities
  • The Well's software--as implemented by the Well--encouraged linear conversations and community memory; it discouraged anonymity, but encouraged responsibility for words and topics; it permitted limited forms of dissent and retraction, and it allowed users to invent their own tools.
    • Kurt Laitner
      Kurt Laitner on 16 Feb 10
       
      reinforces our notion of allowing users to create structures and presentations as well as content, Bent was excited when Twine was allowing limited metadata definition, would be even better if we could specify whole aspects / objects as well as the presentation of either one or more than one of these aspects/ objects (photo presentation not the same as a list of photos presentation)
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  • Peace through tools, not rules.
  • Kurt Laitner on 16 Feb 10
     
    an illustrious reverb on rules' importance in defining the emergent behaviors and shaping the quality of the interactions on a social site
Kurt Laitner

Booki - 1 views

www.booki.cc/...short-history-of-collaboration

shared by Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • The announcement of Google Wave is probably the most ambitious vision for a decentralized collaborative protocol coming from Silicon Valley
    • Kurt Laitner
      Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10
       
      how is this not proprietary? because google promises not to be evil? because of dataliberation? that google wants the pipe to flow through their building?
  • Almost all of the current so called Web 2.0 platforms have been built on a centralized control model, locking their users to be dependent on a commercial tool.
  • an understanding that a lot of money can be made from web platforms based on user production.
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  • These new platforms use a pleasant social terminology in an attempt to attract more users. But this polite palette of social interactions misses some of the key features that the pioneering systems were not afraid to use. For example, while most social networks only support binary relationships, Slashcode (the software that runs Slashdot.org, a pioneer of many features wrongly credited to "Web 2.0") included a relationship model that defined friends, enemies, enemies-of-friends, etc. The reputation system on the Advogato publishing tool supported a fairly sophisticated trust metric, while most of the more contemporary blog platforms support none.
  • "The networked information economy improves the practical capacities of individuals along three dimensions: (1) it improves their capacity to do more for and by themselves; (2) it enhances their capacity to do more in loose commonality with others, without being constrained to organize their relationship through a price system or in traditional hierarchical models of social and economic organization; and (3) it improves the capacity of individuals to do more in formal organizations that operate outside the market sphere.
fishead ...*∞º˙

Analyst: Email will lose ground to social networks | VentureBeat - 3 views

digital.venturebeat.com/...er-social-software-predictions

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 04 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Gartner recently published a list of five new predictions about “social software” that show mix of optimism and pessimism about whether these tools will be embraced by businesses. The most grandiose prediction is the first — that by 2014, social networking services will replace email as the primary communication tool for 20 percent of business users.
  • Gartner also argues that the distinction between email and social networks is disappearing, with social networks adding email-like capabilities while email adds social data.
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  • By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users. By 2012, over 50 percent of enterprises will use activity streams that include microblogging, but stand-alone enterprise microblogging will have less than 5 percent penetration. Through 2012, over 70 percent of IT-dominated social media initiatives will fail. Within five years, 70 percent of collaboration and communications applications designed on PCs will be modeled after user experience lessons from smartphone collaboration applications. Through 2015, only 25 percent of enterprises will routinely utilize social network analysis to improve performance and productivity.
  • Jack Logan on 04 Feb 10
     
    I know several examples of my friends (non-techie) that are already doing this. They seem to like it much better - all their friends in one place. The favorite if Facebook. I can't figure out who's reading what that I write, so I'm less interested right now, but if preferences/settings were much more obvious, this seems like it will happen. Right now notification seems to be working for me in Diigo.
  • Kurt Laitner on 09 Feb 10
     
    this seems like so much bs to me - facebook will be used for one to many, email client will be the notification/alert single screen of attention for everyone over 30. kiddies will likely embrace the new tech, and text will be their notification or they will use a phone client of some sort to aggregate. hopefully we can come up with a device independent alert/notification management interface that can 'replace' the email client (I'm getting pretty tired of managing social networks from an email client), but I bet it will be one of the email client providers who will figure that out and own it. it may mean handling more protocols in email client. the cardinal example in my mind is iCal handling in email clients - it automatically presents a different UI for that message - why shouldn't an email client be able to do everything facebook does? I think the paragraph from Gartner is so much bs as we have no real fixing of terms - will the email client as we know it today disappear, YES will the experience of messaging be more like facebook, GOD I HOPE NOT, but perhaps, but is this research worth paying for? frigging sound bites
Kurt Laitner

Feature: Auto group Selection - 20 views

I didn't follow the Common Tag saga, though from the outside it seems a standards effort by small players without the support of the major ones (delicious for example) which is pretty much doomed f...

feature Auto Group Selection

started by Kurt Laitner on 06 Mar 10 8 follow-ups, last by Kurt Laitner on 07 Mar 10
Wildcat2030 wildcat

"Hunome is...All about what makes people tick. Sharing content on human interest topics... - 0 views

www.hunome.com/blog

Network socnet Networking social objects people infocologies polytopia

shared by Wildcat2030 wildcat on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Wildcat2030 wildcat on 18 Mar 10
     
    "Hunome is... * A site you can join, for free as an individual, to gain and share insights, views and thoughts on human ways of being and living; who we are, why we are and where we'd like to go next. * A business that provides tools for us all to make a dent in humanity's lack of getting each other. * A means to make human interest inclusive decisions - in private, intellectual and organizational spheres. * A dream to make a difference by improving our perceptiveness about humanity. We hope you find Hunome's purpose of value and will join us. You can register your interest on Hunome "
François Dongier

Elgg - Open Source Social Networking and Social Publishing Platform. - 4 views

elgg.org

shared by François Dongier on 04 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Elgg: a powerful social engine. Elgg empowers individuals, groups and institutions to create their own fully-featured social environment.
  • lgg plugins If you would like to add extra functionality to your Elgg network, check out the plugins repository.
  • Elgg demo site
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  • Elgg documentation
  • François Dongier on 02 Feb 10
     
    Facyla's current project
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 02 Feb 10
     
    Looks like he's WAY AHEAD of our little experiment. Perhaps we need to explore deeper...
  • François Dongier on 02 Feb 10
     
    From what I understand of Elgg, it's a tool to generate a social network, competing with things like Ning and Drupal Gardens (or with Drupal itself?) Would be nice to check the demo site but you need a user-name and password to access it. Tried guest/guest as in the good old days, but of course it didn't work... Facyla, give us a code please?
Kurt Laitner

Booki - 1 views

www.booki.cc/...ipation-and-demands-on-process

shared by Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • spark a fork or split
    • Kurt Laitner
      Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10
       
      which is why every socnet needs this fundamental affordance
  • Reputation
  • Trust
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  • Influence
  • persistent avatars, user names or real names
  • aptitude
  • commitment
  • length of time
  • number of edits effected
  • greater power over the technical tools that co-ordinate the system
  • vouching
  • sponsors
  • Debian physical encounters between developers are used to sign each others' encryption keys
Kurt Laitner

Startup D.O.A - 9 views

www.instigatorblog.com/...02

shared by Kurt Laitner on 05 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • Kurt Laitner on 05 Feb 10
     
    a warning, that said single use software is really boring, so count me out if that's the idea, hence why I keep saying we're not going to make any money on this, so let's move on and get with creating the damn thing
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  • Jack Logan on 05 Feb 10
     
    Agreed. Let's get it started! I want it so I can use it!
  • Kurt Laitner on 05 Feb 10
     
    "I want it so I can use it" I think this is a fine vision for this project
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 05 Feb 10
     
    interesting metric tool when you click on Validate...http://market-by-numbers.com/2010/01/updated-customer-development-image/ The thing that scares me is #10--Launch and no one cares.
  • Kurt Laitner on 05 Feb 10
     
    we have at least 10-ish people who deeply care, that translates to a statistical user base of considerably more, likely enough to fund this
  • frank smith on 05 Feb 10
     
    OK...now we are looking in the right mirror. I still feel that there can be a parallel path of developing an organization (spectrum from company through content producers union) AND start some prototyping work and see where it leads us.
Jack Logan

NeuroSky - Experience the MindSet - 4 views

www.neurosky.com

social networks neurosky

shared by Jack Logan on 04 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Jack Logan on 04 Feb 10
     
    Check this out - Click on "See How it Works!" - Moving object with your mind!
  • François Dongier on 04 Feb 10
     
    I wouldn't mind if a trusted friend invested the $200 and told me what the software is worth. I did some work on EEG brainmaps in the early 90's and I'm ready to accept that things have evolved since then. But one electrode on the forehead seems very little (we used like 24 of them). On the other hand, visualisation tools have certainly evolved a lot and maybe it does compensate the signal weakness. But it's very easy to make nice-looking visualisations with random noise. So, I'm skeptical, but interested in the topic and will consider if someone tries it and recommends me to buy one.
  • Kurt Laitner on 09 Feb 10
     
    oh come on you can put it on the mantle beside the xray vision glasses
Kurt Laitner

The content is the Cargo - 10 views

cargocollective.com

Josh Pangell Folkert Gorter Space Collective founder cms

shared by Kurt Laitner on 19 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Jack Logan on 19 Jan 10
     
    This is right up the FishMan's alley! Let's explore this!
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  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 19 Jan 10
     
    OOOOHHHH....looks intriguing! I like what happens when you hover over the image on the Read More page...need time to digg...
  • Kurt Laitner on 19 Jan 10
     
    it's shiny
  • Jack Logan on 19 Jan 10
     
    and fast!
  • frank smith on 19 Jan 10
     
    check "Together We Learn" site inside cargo. video shows a AR enhanced web tool for teaching English grammar. Printed flash cards with barcodes on the back that the student shows to the webcam to confirm or deny their choices about the meaning of the card. Pretty cool
fishead ...*∞º˙

Google Wave Versus the Rest, Feature by Feature - Google Wave - Lifehacker - 3 views

lifehacker.com/...us-the-rest-feature-by-feature

gwave

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 19 Jan 10 - Cached
  • We got a great response to last week's frequently asked questions about Google Wave, and decided it's worth expanding further on the differences between Wave and the current crop of web-based collaboration offerings. Wave combines features from email, instant messenger, Google Docs, wikis, and forums and throws its own spin on things. For a quick visual of its offerings versus similar tools, check out this feature-by-feature comparison table. (Click the image below for a closer look.) You'll notice that Wave doesn't have a green yes in every cell in its column; it's still missing functionality that's holding it back from being a viable alternative in a production environment—specifically, user permissions (everyone can edit everything) and the ability to export a wave or publish it so that anyone can see its contents (not just folks logged into Wave). This table is slated to go into chapter 1 of the first edition of The Complete Guide to Google Wave, so give me a shout if you've got ideas for how to polish it up before we rev up the printers.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 19 Jan 10
     
    here's a detailed look at the good and bad features of Wave...
Jack Logan

Where is The Knowledge Inventory? | The Ingenesist Project - 5 views

www.ingenesist.com/...s-the-knowledge-inventory.html

no knowledge inventory

shared by Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    Is this guy talking to us??????????????
  • François Dongier on 30 Jan 10
     
    I agree with him that we need good tools to bring together the people that are needed to solve a problem, or innovate in a particular domain. A mere inventory of competences won't be enough though.
  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    Agreed! We need to go and do things! Get your iPad when it comes out!
fishead ...*∞º˙

Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation - 8 views

techcrunch.com/...evri-acquires-radar-networks

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation 10 Comments Share6 Buzz it by Erick Schonfeld on Mar 11, 2010 After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup. Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks, along with its core technical team and its main product, Twine. Rumors surfaced yesterday on ReadWriteWeb that Evri was being acquired, but that is not the case. Evri is the acquirer. I spoke with both CEOs this morning. They would not disclose the terms of the deal, but it is safe to assume that it was largely an equity-based transaction. Both Evri and Radar Networks share Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital as their largest shareholder. Radar has raised $24 million in total capital, while Evri has raised $8 million. (At least that is what has been publicly disclosed. Paul Allen has poured much more money into Evri almost single-handedly, perhaps even more than Radar raised). Radar was unable to raise more during the recession and kept pushing out the release of its next product, T2, an ambitious project to create a semantic index of the Web. Using this semantic index, T2 can do a better job understanding what each Web page it indexes is about.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 11 Mar 10
     
    buy buy birdie
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  • François Dongier on 12 Mar 10
     
    I think that's great news... Seriously, I do. Evri is really a very nice product.
  • Jack Logan on 12 Mar 10
     
    It's a really great match! Let's hope they do something great!
  • Jack Logan on 13 Mar 10
     
    I've begun to use it to do lots of Search. I find it to be a much more interesting experience with great results over Google. I think the Evri + Twine result is a terrific match and will provide others some of the semantic tools to build onto the semantic web.
  • François Dongier on 13 Mar 10
     
    Good to know, Jack. Please share if you find good examples of such searches with "great results over Google". Today I seem to have problems signing in (with Chrome - but it works with Firefox), so I suppose they are making some changes. I'm having some problems with the collections: can't find how to create a new collection or edit an existing one. Have you been using collections yet? Do they work for you?
  • Jack Logan on 13 Mar 10
     
    Do you have the iPhone app. for Evri - EvriVerse? Very interesting. It uses the mapping that I wrote about in my letter to all of this group today in response to the Twain letter.
François Dongier

First Look at SnapGroups: A Delightful Tool For Lightweight Discussion - 1 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...ghtweight_group_discussion.php

SnapGroups

shared by François Dongier on 10 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Mark Fletcher
  • it's easy, it's clear, it's got good social design and it's real time.
  • SnapGroups makes it really easy to create a group discussion around a particular topic, invite people, set variable privacy controls and then participate in that conversation as part of a whole "newsfeed" style stream of updates from all your various groups in one place. Fresh comments, likes and dislikes get pushed to your browser live using a home-made bit of AJAX and the whole thing couldn't be much simpler. It's a lot of fun to use, in fact.
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