“We”ll need to rethink a few things copyright authorship identity ethics aesthetics rhetoric governance privacy commerce love” From this excellent video Sounds exactly like what we should be considering regarding a singularity. There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one [...]
Program yourself. Make sure that you have the volume turned up.
Viral content is content that consumers want to propogate, in essence creating word of mouth marketing (WOMM). Roundabout is a great example of a viral marketing video for this crossfader.
With reports that a “New Worm Chats with Users on AIM” link and even goes so far as to respond “lol no its not its a virus” when questioned it’s not too far of a leap to imagine personalized viruses. Don’t imagine the personalized viruses tailored to your DNA that many sci-fi novels talk about, [...]
The Billy Harvey website – clever, understated, technically brilliant. Hat’s off to SoFake.
“Work It Harder Make It Better Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger” DaftPunk
Looking at revenues & users for Ebay, Yahoo & Google is where new media economics really begins to come into it’s own. This is web 2.0 theory being proven in the market.
Times of great change mean times of great opportunity.
More simply, Web 2.0 is about the shift from network search economies, which realize mild exponential gains – your utility is bounded by the number of things (people, etc) you can find on the network – to network coordination economies, which realize combinatorial gains: your utility is bounded by the number of things (transactions, etc) you can do on the network.
Web 2.0 is a shift to from tight, hierarchical architectures which realize exponential network FX, to loosely structured architecture which realize combinatorial network FX.
While I have written about
The Vaulue of Trust before, trusted computing is entirely different.
This incredible short is both a beautiful example of messaging as well as a good explanation about some of the issues with trusted computing.
After watching that, it’s an ideal time to enjoy reading the story
0wnz0red to take your understanding to another level.
Metadata that reconstructs the file via the web – exactly what we need these days. The more granular content gets the better this works.
There needs to be a standard so that it’s completely unambiguous just what one means when one says “Copy Optimized DVD Audio disc”. It’s that clear specification that will make embedded players and perfect peer-to-peer network copies possible. A disc containing such files could be popped into your home stereo DVD player and made to play, copy and share with no more user intervention than hitting a button…
But here’s the key: each file will be named in a way that’s optimized for file sharing, with artist, album, title and track number right in the filename, and with all the right metadata already embedded in the file when the album was mastered at the studio. To share Copy Optimized music you just direct your peer-to-peer filesharing application to your DVD drive so it will share what you’re listening to, have your friends copy the tracks onto their computers’ hard drives, or else burn them copies of the whole DVD.
But wait: there’s more! The DVD disk itself will have a metadata file in its root directory that will specify the contents of the entire disk. My idea is that one could make a bit-for-bit reconstruction of the whole disk just by grabbing this one metadata file and then looking for the tracks on the file sharing networks. This file would be one or two kilobytes of XML that would have each track’s metadata as well as its Secure Hash Algorithm checksum so it can be uniquely identified over the net.
“DJ’s are like collaborative filters – but the best ones are also sources of novelty. Noise, if you like, – but good noise. Filters that can jump from peak to peak – from things I might like now, to things I will like when my preferences will evolve (or, better yet, that evolve my preferences). [...]
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