July 2005
Open Tags: Made For A Distributed World
[originally posted at Get Real]
I waved my hand at what I am calling Open Tags in a recent post, inspired in part by a Jeff Jarvis’ post, Made For A Distributed World.
I made the case that the current model for html-based tagging is flawed from the distributed world perspective, because it is based on specifying at the time of writing exactly what services are going to manage the tag...
Jeff Jarvis on Made For A Distributed World
Even though he was completely wrong about how the Dinnerbuzz solution works, Jeff Jarvis is dead-on in his Made For A Distributed World. Jeff thought that Dinnerbuzz would aggregate blog posts tagged with various sort of restaurant information — “Thai” “Reston” “Virginia” — and then provide a search mechanism so that people could find posts...
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Starting From Scratch: Social Design Is Hard
I am smack in the middle of an experience I have thought about a lot over the past few years. I am getting the opportunity to work with an impassioned group of entrepreneurs who are trying to design a new social application — details omitted to protect my liabilities under NDA — and unlike my usual technology consulting, this is really, really early stage.
We have been talking...
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Linda Stone at Supernova: Continuous Partial...
Linda Stone, formerly of Apple and Microsoft, and the person responsible for coining the term Continuous Partial Attention, gave a much discussed presentation at Supernova. I have been interested in the meme for years (see here).
I am really sorry to have missed Linda, but Nat Torkington posted a great series of notes at O’Reilly Radar. As a result, my comments rely on third party...