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
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 [...]
In a paper released last week, the researchers explained how they developed software that could analyze the sound of someone typing on a keyboard for just ten minutes and then piece together as much as 96 percent of what had been typed. -link This just begs to be written as a virus payload for many [...]
Targeting Documents and Terms Through Co-Occurrence Datais a paper written by Dr. Garcia. In which he explains in detail how to choose which keyword in a two term phrase to focus on for SEO. By way of example the phrase “car insurance” is analyzed, with the end result showing that it is better to target [...]
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 [...]
The Billy Harvey website – clever, understated, technically brilliant. Hat’s off to SoFake.
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – After three years with the AVN Media Network, Jeff Random has announced that he is leaving to pursue other opportunities. “My time with AVN has been very good for me,” Random said. “The knowledge, contacts and experience have really helped me to grow.” Random joined AVN.com as online sales manager, and progressed [...]
“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.