Posted in Random Thoughts, meshforum, meshforum2005 on May 2nd, 2005
The next panel is Buzz with John.
Buzz tells the story about how he created Activewords. Discusses his trip to Russia, sending dispatches back to the US, and becoming ‘a rock star’ – ie. everyone knew who he was because people forwarded his emails.
Buzz mentions Anagram – a great plug-in for outlook!
He also talked [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts, meshforum, meshforum2005 on May 2nd, 2005
Jamis discusses The concept that a constant stream of images, videos, etc will contribute to not the big-brother society but a society of millions of little brothers.
Camera phones, small video cameras, etc.
Irony break – Picture of Jamais taken as he was saying this at Flickr.
One implication - telemedicine - dermatologists could tell diagnosis of [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts, meshforum on May 2nd, 2005
Noshir starts by referencing the LoveGety from Japan – technology and motivation for networking with others.
LoveGety lets you put in a profile and when you’re near someone with similar profile, your lovegety beeps and you find your e-soulmate.
Four types of knowledge networks
who knows who
who knows who knows who
who knows what
Cognitive Knowledge networks – who knows who [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts, meshforum, meshforum2005 on May 2nd, 2005
Ed and Esther are up on stage talking about social networks. I honestly have been watching more than typing during this panel. Check meshforum.org to find a good link for their talk. Buzz is blogging the conference, for example.
Picture set at Flickr.
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Posted in Random Thoughts on May 2nd, 2005
The weightless economy - goods and economic value when up, but weight of goods shipped stayed almost constant. So much of what is made weighs nothing, including information. Cuneiform documents from Sumaria still exist thousands of years later - agreed upon standard of communication with an interface - ie carvings in stone. The Internet is [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts on May 2nd, 2005
I’ve been working out at least 3 mornings a week since late February. The only exceptions have been weeks I’ve had my Vertigo issues.
I was at the health club at the hotel this morning, and Esther Dyson caught me in on her camera. Just in case someone didn’t believe I was at the gym, no [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts, meshforum2005 on May 2nd, 2005
Valdis Krebs is speaking on Social netowrks analysis. Picture here. Valdis showing diagrams that are examples of Social Network Maps. Here is an example from his site. Now Eszter Hargittai is talking about the links between and among Political Weblogs. Sunstein’s theory (link courtesy of Eszter – thanks) is that there should be little interlinkage [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts on May 2nd, 2005
MeshForum is showing Art projects in between speakers - the current one is Yellow Arrow, which is a kind of tagging project where yellow arrow stickers and unique IDs are used to tag and point to items in the physical world. The tags can be referenced online.
Tags are sent with cell phones and text messages. [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts, meshforum2005 on May 2nd, 2005
Here at Meshforum, watching Dr. Anna Nagurney doing an excellent overview of what Networks are.
She’s explaining all the networks around us, from transportation to web traffic, to water and power, to the Romans and the ‘flow problem’ they had with too many chariots at a given time of day.
Network analysis power is that it can [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts on May 2nd, 2005
Jack Vinson has just showed me how to add Keywords to my blog, which Technorati and other sites should understand as “tags.”
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