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, [...]
Trust + MMORG = Reputation Economy new reputation economies will pervasively reshape culture as dramatically as the invention of money. Entirely novel kinds of human interaction will spawn new social classes, power structures and lifestyles. Reputation economies will be abstractions of relationships, in the same way that money abstracts material wealth and labor. >
“About This Site” is a plugin for Firefox that makes it easy to check: * Alexa traffic detail and related sites * Del.icio.us linkbacks * Google related pages, cache and link information * Kinja site readers * Netcraft reports * Open Directory site listing * Popdex search for citations * Technorati link cosmos * Wayback [...]
Google Analytics launches. Lot’s of features including “Funnel Visualization” that have been lacking from easy to use free stats packages.
Surj Patel is leading an open Linux mobile development effort. This could be the start of the Open Platform Handset that I have been hoping will develop.
One of my friends takes great joy in tormenting Google cheerleaders. He likes to say things like “I’m going to use Yahoo, it’s the best search engine”, or “I’m going to Yahoo for it, that way I will actually find it”. When he wants to find something Y! is the first place that he goes. [...]
Ends vs Means Mature people who actually care about the world don’t ponder the question “do the ends justify the means,” because they know that there IS no end. From Decemberist via tecznotes
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.
via i-mode Business Strategy: Yahoo to launch it’s own billing solution for mobile content in Japan. It means they can now provide full access, content and billing to end users independently from carriers