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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
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Symbaloo - start simple - 3 views

www.symbaloo.com/us startpage homepage web browser Networking
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  • Wildcat2030 wildcat on 19 Jan 10
     
    A new startpage for everything?
  • Wildcat2030 wildcat on 19 Jan 10
     
    just came across this, appears interesting
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The Global Brain is about to Wake Up « Nova Spivack - Minding the Planet - 3 views

www.novaspivack.com/...obal-brain-is-about-to-wake-up
shared by Jack Logan on 19 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Jack Logan on 19 Jan 10
     
    This is an example of how NOT to build a social network. I did a search for 'twine' on this page, and couldn't find one example of it - but, all of his tweets are surfaced in a column on the right. Oppsss.
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  • François Dongier on 19 Jan 10
     
    A number of interesting and stimulating thoughts in this post, which I find considerably less vague than Nova's previous post (last Saturday, that's a long long time ago:) on "eliminating the need for search". The next Google won't be about search but about monitoring, that's the first idea. The second interesting idea is about the Global Brain, whose emergence gets linked here with the speed of change and the richness of information available in the real-time web. And the third idea is about artificial consciousness. I've always been puzzled by Nova's mysticism, as he puts it, with respect to consciousness and subjectivity. I think it will take some time to see it disappear, just like Voodoo and all mysticisms, but things change fast nowadays...
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 19 Jan 10
     
    @ francois...mysticism... LOL!
  • François Dongier on 19 Jan 10
     
    We got solipsism and mysticism eradicated in one day. Good start.
  • Jack Logan on 19 Jan 10
     
    In Mac OS X, control-command-D. Let the world be literate!
  • Jack Logan on 19 Jan 10
     
    @François - +1 on "Voodoo and all mysticisms, but things change fast nowadays" - They are changing fast, and we can look forward to these things changing faster than ever now and into the future!
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rene: Retroactive Manifestos - 2 views

spacecollective.org/...Retroactive-Manifestos
shared by Kurt Laitner on 19 Jan 10 - Cached
  • In this context, it is of interest to mention the soon to be launched Cargo platform, which was spawned by SpaceCollective and produced by founding members Folkert & Josh (check out SC’s now much emulated card-look and Folkert’s SC Gallery). The initial release of Cargo is a creative publishing platform where users can present their multimedia content and create personal networks, "following" whoever they want.  But in the near future it hopes to offer many functionalities that will allow people to easily create their own scalable communities and collaborative work spaces, and continue to evolve into an all-encompassing compendium of the latest web technologies. Who knows, from the site’s versatile templates a colony of Polytopian mind habitats may suddenly emerge, which – like the skyscrapers of Manhattan rising from its urban grid – will one day merit a retroactive manifesto of its own.
  • Kurt Laitner on 19 Jan 10
     
    perhaps we should be checking out Cargo
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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...
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Siri: Virtual Personal Assistant Prepares For Debut - 2 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...sistant_prepares_for_debut.php
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  • Kurt Laitner on 18 Jan 10
     
    while this is not a social network, MUCH to learn from here, architecturally, conceptually
  • Jack Logan on 18 Jan 10
     
    Great video; substantially, however, much as we are thinking about using APIs from the various groups we're a part of in the socnet areas (we like this, but don't like that, this is useful, forget this, et al.) This is remarkable stuff! I'm on the SIRI beta list - maybe by June they'll release the beta.
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Was Facebook's greatest move to skip usernames? | Royal Pingdom - 2 views

royal.pingdom.com/...reatest-move-to-skip-usernames Social naming conventions
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  • Was Facebook’s greatest move to skip usernames? Posted in Main on January 18th, 2010 by Pingdom On most social networks, you have to create a username when you sign up. Not only that, that username has to be unique, no duplicates allowed. Facebook on the other hand just takes your real name, no username, and it doesn’t matter if there’s someone already on the site with the same name as yours. There are probably hundreds of factors that add up to explain Facebook’s success, but the question is if using real names instead of usernames isn’t one of the key features that have helped Facebook grow as large as it has. We think there are three main reasons why using real names and not requiring usernames has helped Facebook grow bigger than any other social network on the planet.
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T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. - 2 views

groups.diigo.com/tanstaafl revenue Networking Social monetization gift economy' shareware freeware giving receiving gift money pay payment
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  • frank smith on 18 Jan 10
     
    There ain't no such thing as a free lunch... OK Kurt, I built the darn group for exploring routes to a little revenue for our ragtag band of digital outlaws....
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Exclusive: First Look at Blue Spruce, IBM's Next Generation Browser Platform - 3 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...ibm_blue_spruce_first_look.php browser ibm blue spruce ria xmpp
shared by Kurt Laitner on 18 Jan 10 - Cached
  • - Uses the WebKit Open Source Browser Engine (in the demo we saw, Safari was the browser being used) - Uses the following Open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, (All Ajax), XMPP, H.264 - Server runs on Linux, MacOS X - Utilized OpenAjax Metadata Specification, so it can utilize any widgets - It's being ported to IE 6+ and Firefox
  • To be clear, IBM is not developing another browser. The client part of this project is based on a set of browser-based open standards technologies. They will in time (2010 timeframe) be integrated into existing browsers such as Safari, Firefox and IE.
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  • The grand plan for IBM, we think, is that it wants the browser to become the platform for applications
  • Kurt Laitner on 18 Jan 10
     
    maybe we need a new browser?
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  • Jack Logan on 18 Jan 10
     
    from IBM?
  • Kurt Laitner on 18 Jan 10
     
    'fraid not. this is just a toolkit
  • Kurt Laitner on 18 Jan 10
     
    I really should 'share' this to alerts management feature post in this group if I could do so easily I would. I run gmail in my browser to do 'alerts managment' something it does very poorly in concert with the variety of implementations of alerts from each socnet, this is something that can and should be improved
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Eliminating the Need for Search « Nova Spivack - Minding the Planet - 7 views

www.novaspivack.com/...eliminating-the-need-t-search
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  • Jack Logan on 16 Jan 10
     
    Interesting. Looks like Nova's moved on from T2.
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  • Jack Logan on 16 Jan 10
     
    Are we never going to see T2? Thoughts?
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 16 Jan 10
     
    It looks like even Nova has realized now the futility of his "project". It makes me think that he is more on the side of experimentation and pushing boundaries that actually developing anything substantial. One of the things I've been taught in my work is that the difference between dreamers and doers is that dreamers never stop dreaming. Doers know when to take the dream, flesh it out and make it into something that works. Nova is a dreamer, and has left a wake of half-baked thoughts behind him as he continues to seek the next "thing", having lost interest in the last "thing" he experimented with. There are a lot of once-promising ghost towns that have been cooked up and discarded that trail behind him like the chains on Dickens' ghost of Christmas past. Earthweb, NVention, Lucid, Radar, Twine. All flittering bubbles of inspiration that never grew up, and/or were abandoned by the dreamer just short of success. I think we've already glimpsed the "future" as Nova sees it, and I for one have learned that what ever his future is, I don't want to participate.
  • Jack Logan on 16 Jan 10
     
    +1
  • frank smith on 17 Jan 10
     
    @fish yeah we have a saying for those "dreamers'. it's "Put down the bong and DO something!!" Dreaming is something i do when i sleep. hoping,planning and working i do when awake. Keep waking em up Man!! And double +1 to your commet about interactions with Nova the Snake Oil Salesman!!
  • François Dongier on 17 Jan 10
     
    -1 :-)
  • Kurt Laitner on 17 Jan 10
     
    I think Nova has contributed greatly, and will continue to do so. His gifting is not in finishing, but in starting - starters and finishers are seldom the same person. What is unusual here is that a starter is given large amounts of capital but the vc's don't know enough to pair him with a finisher. One of my business partners said a business needs a dreamer, a doer and a sob. To which I asked, so that makes you.....? T2 is based on what I know of it (unless they've come up with some scaling algorithm, which isn't a product, and should be sold based on the patent to MS or google) fails on differentiation, and is entering a market against formidable incumbents. Hence Nova's thoughts that the next 'google' needs to differentiate itself further are actually quite valid. If I were Nova's vc on T2 I would pull the plug. Never talk about your next project.
  • François Dongier on 17 Jan 10
     
    Not so long ago, in fact just a couple years ago, Twine (T1) was far ahead of the competition in the area of interest networking (building of communities around interests). I think Nova and T1 really did a good job in *pioneering* the idea that social networking should not just focus on people connecting to each other but rather on the topics that people share an interest for. For some reasons, Twine did not try to stay ahead in this field and didn't integrate improvements that seemed quite obvious. I would have liked to see T1 evolve towards real semantic tagging, connecting Twine tags and topics to linked data entities. I would have liked to see a T1 with stronger collaborative filtering: even the "like" button that was - i believe - introduced by FriendFeed, is now everywhere, except on Twine... I don't think that what Nova is discussing here has much to do with T2, just like I don't think that the semtweet project that he tweeted about a couple weeks ago has much to do with T2 either. I agree that so far Nova has been a dreamer, an inventor, more than a "doer", but I still like to check what he is dreaming about. Sometimes his dreams seem very deep and interesting: I don't find the current T2 dream (faceted search based on Apache-Solr technology) very exciting, unless something big comes out of it with respect to RDF. I am not that excited either about Semtweet, unless again it brings along something big with respect to RDF. And now Nova is sharing some new thoughts about some new user-machine interaction that wouldn't be based on search but on something else... I agree it's still pretty vague and not very convincing yet...
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UML Class Diagram Of Twine | Twine - 6 views

www.twine.com/...uml-class-diagram-of-twine
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  • François Dongier on 15 Jan 10
     
    He... that was Pomlover. Anyone still in touch with him?
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 15 Jan 10
     
    Not recently-that last communication I had with him, he had left the company he was working for and was trying to "go it alone" with a small consulting startup--that was back in October. He's been radio-silent since then however. I do miss his charts and graphs though. He did start up a blog...here's his site: http://bulldozer00.wordpress.com/
  • François Dongier on 15 Jan 10
     
    Thanks, I just sent him a message thru Twine to let him know we're here now
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Jack D Logan Twines - Jack D. Logan Twines - 2 views

trumpet.sdsu.edu/Jack D Logan Twines/index.html
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  • Jack Logan on 15 Jan 10
     
    Remember these? Ha Ha However, we could use this to keep track of all of our stuff in Diigo and elsewhere.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 15 Jan 10
     
    That's pretty cool. I like how the connection chain is dynamic as you click it. Lots of wasted real estate at the bottom however. It would be nice to get a preview of the selection instead of just a link. Man you connected a lot of stuff!!!
  • Jack Logan on 15 Jan 10
     
    This was a real early version. I'm working on a version with everything that I've done in Twine using this app that has more than 27k items to it. It's the one that Bent help me make a file with NSA. I'd really like to know if Twine will maintain the urls from T1 after going to T2. If I could get the Twine files into Diigo, I could do a bulk change, and recast the front end.
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Everything You Want To Know About The Most Secretive Startup In The World (Next Jump) - 0 views

www.techcrunch.com/...next-jump advertising
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  • Next Jump runs perhaps the largest set of direct merchant offers businesses in the world, making the growing preponderance of offers in social games seem primitive by comparison. It operates employee discount and reward programs on behalf of 90,000 corporations, organizations and affinity groups which reaches more than 100 million consumers. Next Jump connects 28,000 retailers and manufacturers to these consumers, typically getting the merchants to offer deep discounts to its members. In Kim’s eyes, this is a much better way to advertise. His pitch to merchants everywhere is this: “Take your ad budget and use it to lower prices for targeted sets of customers. The user is in market, and conversion rates are through the roof.” According to Kim, Next Jump’s conversion rate on offers is 11 to 1, compared to 1000 to 1 or worse for typical Internet ad conversion rates.
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Jack (3) - Google Wave - 6 views

wave.google.com/wave
shared by Jack Logan on 13 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • frank smith on 14 Jan 10
     
    hey Jack!! make me a participant...can't ride the wave...
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 14 Jan 10
     
    common problem for anyone not on the same surfboard. heck, we're not even on the same beach.
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