I like this TechCrunch post by Naval Ravikant and Adam Rifkin, because it makes it clear that there is not one “social graph” that any one player can “capture”. Instead, there are many perspectives on social ties, and each application (facebook, twitter, email, linkedin, flickr, etc.) reflects different perspectives on those graphs. I suspect the [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Crowdsourcing thoughts
05 Oct 2010 at 00:21
david
collaboration, Conferences, Mozilla, Open Source, Vancouver, Web
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On Wednesday, I’m attending Remixology 2, an event put together by Fresh Media, on the topic of crowdsourcing. In particular, I’ll somehow be the representative of the entire open web perspective on crowdsourcing (!), Alfred Hermida will be talking about the journalist’s perspective, and Leigh Christie will be there representing artists. I’m hoping that the [...]
Maturation of the hosting provider market
I’ve been considering switching hosting providers for a little while, as my current provider, while cheap, has been slower and slower, making me think that they’re not managing their hosts super well. And I figured it’d be good to get a feel for how that part of the market has evolved. A tweet and some [...]
