Dissemination Networking

Dissemination Networking Van Jacobson gave this talk. There’s too much good stuff for me to even summarize I left my notes below. Data has a name – but not a location Opportunistic transport – Anything that moves bits can be used to communicate Everything responds – (seems like a step towards Thalience) Returned data is [...]

Easy Encryption for Gmail, Yahoo & more

FreeEnigma – free PGP based encryption for your webmail sounds like just what the doctor ordered in this ‘suppoena everything’ day and age. It seems like it will finally be easy for you to keep your communications somewhat private. It doesn’t hide who you send to or get mail from, but it encrypts the body [...]

Monetizing Communities – Group Forming Networks maximize per user value

Previously I referenced the value of trust. Idea – The more a network facilitates trust, the easier it is for network users to form groups. From David Reed re: The Power of Community Building Group Forming Networks maximize per user value and the dominant value in a typical network tends to shift from one category [...]

MMO games are formalized reputation economies

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. >

Trust is not Trusted Computing


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.

watch it now

After watching that, it’s an ideal time to enjoy reading the story
0wnz0red to take your understanding to another level.



Via Boing Boing

The Value of Trust

Who wants to own content?

Distribution is not king.

Content is not king.

Conversation is the kingdom.

The war is over and the army that wasn’t even fighting — the army of all of us, the ones who weren’t in charge, the ones without the arms — won. The big guys who owned the big guns still don’t know it. But they lost.

In our media 2.0, web 2.0, post-media, post-scarcity, small-is-the-new-big, open-source, gift-economy world of the empowered and connected individual, the value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution.

The value is in relationships. The value is in trust.

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Information wants to be free while trust wants to be earned.

We pay attention to those that we trust.

Trust
in network environments

The need for a
cognitive model of trust

The socio-cognitive
model of trust

The beliefs of
trust: what X thinks about Y

The
“Motivation belief” of trust
Yin-yang trust
Internal
and external trust

The sources of
trust

Trust and
irrationality

Degrees of trust
Trust and risk
Trust and
delegation

Trust and control
Trust and
adjustable autonomy

The dynamics of
trust

Trust and
experiences

Trust elicits
trust

Trust
atmosphere

Trust as a three
parties relationship: contracts and authorities

Trust as a
communicative act

Trust as a fuzzy
network

Trust in
contract nets

Trust, security
and technology

Trust and
technical knowledge

Trust and
knowledge management