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Says Clay: "Though much of it is not about social software per se, I try to extend the argument that the 'people infrastucture' hidden in traditional classification systems is an Achilles' heel for systems that have to operate at internet scale, and that the logic of tagging overcomes that weakness."
Stowe Boyd, after stumbling across some technical glitches at Technorati: "I have had a number of knowledgeable folks suggest that Technorati is having trouble scaling with the explosive growth of the blogosphere. It's a shame if it's true, because they provide an invaluable service, and with the growth of tags edging out blog categorization as an taxonomic mechanism, it is in the public interest that Technorati work. We are all coming to depend on it as a means of making sense of the world..."
See the comments for a response from Adam Hertz, Technorati's VP of Engineering.
Zack Lynch, good friend to Corante and resident expert on neurotechnology at Brain Waves, has released, through his company NeuroInsights, the industry's first comprehensive investment- and business-focused analysis of the neurotechnology marketplace.
Zack's tracked the field for years, knows many of its players, has spoken at many of the industry's top events, and has already educated thousands through Brain Waves about the neurotech market.
For more information on the report see NeuroInsights' press release which went out yesterday and click here for information on ordering it. To find out more about the company, visit NeuroInsights.com.
We've pulled together some of the many posts on Corante that have discussed or referenced the mobile social software service Dodgeball over the years. Among them:
Clay Shirky, who knows the company and its founders well, comments here on its acquisition by Google.
Here's Clay's first post about them, back in late 2003, and this, from April 2004.
Also see Stowe Boyd's piece from last June as well as our interview, part of our Future of Wireless series, with its founders from earlier this year.
For all mentions, click here to trigger our search (and please be patient).
John Hiler takes a long look at the ways in which Google is challenging the traditional, hierarchical modes of finding and organizing information and changing the way people search for information on the Web but also in email and, perhaps most disruptively (and threateningly for Microsoft), their desktops.
Writes John: "Hierarchical Folders have helped us manage information for decades. They've proven themselves as some of the most flexible tools ever created: organizing wildly different industries, from Web Directories, to Email and Desktop File Systems.
"But Folders rarely solve the core problem that they address - and often create new ones, like forcing you to create new folders just to manage new information..."
"No matter how the future turns out, what's clear is this: the eventual solution will act directly on the core problems that Folders have been attempting to solve for the past 30 years."
Alex Williams interviews, as part of our ongoing online series Feedfest, Steve Gillmor of ZDNet, Dave Sifry of Technorati, and Eric Hayes of You Software for their thoughts on attention.xml.
Among the topics covered in the nearly 50-minute podcast, available here: what it is and why it's important; privacy issues, business models, interoperability, and more...
Tune in to Music Goes Mobile, an interview conducted by Russell Shaw with three leading players in the mobile music market: Thomas Gewecke, senior VP of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT; Mark Desautels, VP of Wireless Internet Development at CTIA; and Vern Poyner, CEO of WiderThanAmericas.
Among the quotes worth catching - this from Desautels: "Mobile content is going to have to be created for the interstitial periods in which it is likely to be viewed... Content that meets this important criterion of usability... is likely to be far more successful than interesting pieces that are too lengthy for the viewer/subscriber to complete watching."
danah boyd airs an abstract of a paper she's prepping on the "The Significance of 'Social Software'" which will discuss the drivers that have led to the many related apps that have been launched in recent years and their broad adoption of by tens of millions of users.
From the abstract, on which she's asking for reader feedback: "Social software represents a new generation of social technology development - a generation that is dependent on moving beyond the laboratory and into mass culture. Its manifestations are already staggering - ABC declared 2004 the Year of the Blog as blogging challenged everything from political discourse to identity production. Social networking services in the hundreds have motivated millions of people worldwide to construct and negotiate profiles and grapple directly with the social awkwardness of being more public than one thought. By allowing people to easily stumble upon the work of others, media sharing services have prompted new ways of organizing information and playing with the intention of producing media. These advancements complicate critical theoretical ideas about the nature of the public(s), the role of relationships in sharing, and the collective desire to organize information..."
Matt May and Alex Williams, in the latest podcast from our podcasting blog, discuss the remaking, by Infinity Broadcasting, of one of its stations into KYOUradio, Public Radio International's dip in the podcasting pool, and more.
Ernest Miller pulls together coverage and commentary from mainstream media and the blogosphere on the news that the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has shot down the FCC's attempt to impose the so-called broadcast flag on makers and users of new consumer electronics devices.
Says Ernest, who includes excerpts from the ruling as well as links to dozens of sources discussing the decision: "The ramifications of this authority grab by the FCC were enormous, since it would have, among other things, essentially given them the power to control significant aspects of the design of anything capable of using HDTV signals, i.e., modern PCs..."
Alex Williams interviews , as part of Feedfest, Phil Torrone, the associate editor of O'Reilly's Make magazine. Among the topics discussed: Flickr, podcasting, RSS, iPod tricks, BitTorrent, satellite radio, and much more...
Tune in to our Podcasting blog where Jeff De Cagna's polling readers for their take on the "art and science" of what makes a compelling podcast.
Among the comments so far: "Whereas traditional broadcast media serve geographic communities, podcasting serves psychographic communities. Due to production costs, television and radio programming must serve communities that are large enough to be economically viable (in a marketing sense). Or their production costs must be underwritten. But podcasts do not (necessarily) have such large production costs, thus they can be 'viable' on a much smaller scale and for much smaller communities than is possible with traditional entertainment or information programming."
Suw Charman helped lead the charge over the weekend that took Creative Commons to task for linking up with 'word of mouth' promoters BzzAgents in a developing story that's been picked up by Metafilter, Larry Lessig and others.
From Suw's original post: "For Creative Commons to start using BzzAgents is, not to put too fine a point on it, a betrayal of the work done by grassroots activists who are genuinely concerned about the state of copyright today. The people who have been working hard on promoting CC, who are contributing CC material to the ever growing commons, who are writing about copyright reform, putting together seminars and events, these are CC's 'buzz agents', and they do all this work for free, because they believe on a fundamental level that it is important... getting BzzAgents to promote CC is doing a massive disservice not just to all the people who promoted CC because they believed in it, but also CC itself. In using fake 'word of mouth' promotion they devalue the work done by real supporters by polluting the blogosphere with fake buzz."
To which Dave Balter, the founder of BzzAgents, responded by calling Suw and other critics from the blogosphere liars.
To which Suw responded, point by point, and concluded "So, Dave, when are you going to begin holding yourself to the same standards of truthfulness that you are claiming I flout?"
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