From Bubblegeneration we get what I am calling the Media 2.0 maxims. 1) Network economies dominate search. 2) Viral economies dominate microcontent/communities. 3) Distributed economies dominate personalization/microchunking. The point is that if you can put all three together, you realize a *huge* scale advantage, because you’re realizing nonlinear returns to scale along all three dimensions.
O’Reilly talks about What Is Web 2.0, including these Web 2.0 Design Patterns 1 The Long Tail Small sites make up the bulk of the internet’s content; narrow niches make up the bulk of internet’s the possible applications. Therefore: Leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire web, to the [...]
At first glance the GPX2 seemed it could be the “open platform” handset or handheld that has been missing. When I read about a Linux-based handheld that’s open, powerful and cheap – visions of ad-hoc networking applications seamlessly switching between wifi/wimax, mobile and physical connections danced in my head. Linux-based handheld that’s open, powerful and [...]